Is piracy a necessary evil?

[Beskar]

Back when I was younger, piracy was all the rage, especially in the console wars. The Playstation won in the local area as everyone had 'that uncle' who used to 'chip' their Playstations for £10 then sell games for £5 each. On the other-hand, I had an N64 and well, there were no pirated N64's due to fact no one had the equipment or resources. This trend continued on with the PS2 especially, meaning Playstation only got their market dominance because of the black market.

The thing is, many games are overpriced. You always have budget games at Triple-A prices (and most of tthe AAA are not worth it either) and you still have this now. As a responsible adult, I simply don't buy the games, or if the game is good but not worth the price, I would wait for a sale so it comes within a price range I feel is acceptable to purchase.

As for children, most of the 'Arcade'/Casual type games have been refocused to them. Which are usually priced around $5-10 but end of the day, the adults are expected to pay for these things. Like how you see six year olds with the latest iPhone.


As for any 'Good', there are the arguments that cracking games helps show developers they cannot simply fill their software with DRM nonsense which gimps over the legitimate user. However, there is the argument that without piracy, there would be no DRM... swings and round-abouts.