I remember When Sony Playstation first came out sometime around the mid 90`s in my country. People were busy with the Sega Mega Drive and didn’t care much about the new technology from Sony, because it was very expensive to buy its CD games. But soon after that, very cheap copies of Sony CD games started to enter the country coming from Thailand and China. So, after people were supposed to buy an original Resident Evil CD by around $90, an exact copy can be bought by around $3! Then, in few months everybody in country bought a Sony Playstation. I don’t know if Sony Corporation loved that or hated it, but I know that their local dealers made a huge profit from selling Sony consoles. The funny thing was that the dealers started to sell “chipped ready” consoles so customers don’t bother to take them to hackers to break its code!
According to BBC Newbeast report “people who play illegal copies of video games on chipped or modifies consoles, cost at least 1.45 billion pound in lost sales in 2010”. Link. The report also estimates that it`s resulted in 1,000 fewer jobs in the industry. However, in an interview with coputergameandvideogames.com Christopher Sundberg, boss of Just Cause argues that instead of trying to stop piracy why not try to give hackers a job!. Link.
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