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PC Gaming Alliance Pres: Software Startups 'Benefit from Rampant Piracy'

By soulxtc

Says it allows them to "grow a market for future titles." Much has been made about software piracy over the years, especially by copyright holder groups like the Business Software Alliance (BSA), which represents a number of the world's largest software developers. However, none have ever come forward to acknowledge the benefits of piracy until recently. Randy Stude, president of the PC Gaming Alliance, a non-profit organization of hardware manufacturers, game developers, game publishers and others, with the goal of promoting and advancing the PC as a gaming platform, recently gave an interview with Big Download in which he noted how piracy of some game titles actually contributed to the success of some game developer startups. From the interview: Some people, like Valve's Gabe Newell and Stardock's Brad Wardell, have come down hard on current DRM practices in games and both developers sell a lot of PC titles.

Full post as published by ZeroPaid on February 17, 2009 (boomark / email).