Video Games: Pirates are Out and About for Halloween -- And for PC Games?
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- Category: Ms H. News
- Published on Thursday, 24 November 2011 03:42
PC Games Challenge -- To fight against pirating
Source of News: The DePaulia, Tom Harrison
Article: Anti-Pirating Software Punishes Customers - Not Pirates
Disclaimer: I am confident that you are not a party to the actions described below. In keeping with Halloween, I decided to use an article on pirating as a basis for my video game news today. .
As we all know, Halloween brings out lots of different costumed characters, including superheroes, villaiins, ghosts, pirates, and others. Of these characters, my focus will be on the pirates.
The majority of time, pirates in the movies seek to find treasures, sometimes buried, sometimes not -- that belong to or is the inheritance of someone else, other than themselves. Did you know this term can be used for the wrongful taking and use of PC video games?
According to the author of this article, pirating of PC games is unfortunately rampant. Developers are now using Digital Rights Management (DRM) which is a non-removeable anti-pirating software that limits the use of the content of PC games.
The upside of this is if you play video games mostly on the Xbox 360 and PlayStation 3 instead of PCs, pirating is irrelevant. Also all PC games are not pirated.
For PC video game players, companies are coming up with solutions to combat pirating. For example, there is a multiplayer PC game, "Team Fortress 2" by Valve Software that has been updated periodically for free. The free updates are unavailable to pirates, and the legitimate version has more content than the PC game that may have been pirated previously.
Here is a scene from the Team Fortess 2 PC video game.
Team Fortress 2
Ms. H's take. Pirating of PC games is wrong. Let's see pirates in movies, television, and in fun Halloween costumes!
Pirates of the Carribean
Happy Halloween everybody!
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