Thread: What is "piracy" and is it ever justified
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2010-03-03 , 17:07
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Originally Posted by 77h View Post
I wanted to buy angry birds to support the developer. i played level 1. The (insert random sware word) Ovi store would not let me purchase the level packs.

I turned away... I am not going to pirate this game but I lost interest. I am not going out of my way to pay someone 3 Euros ?!? where Nokia would then take one of it.

Piracy is GOOD for developers. I work for a software company - when I found out that someone in Russia cracked our licensing system I was smiling. This was free advertising in Russia for us. Eventually our developers closed the gap and the Russians are working on the next crack

Not every pirated copy is a lost sale
So if your company spent a large amount of time closing the gap and not working on something more innovative then that was good for the company? I really hope that you have a long hard think about this thought process if you ever make it into business yourself.

RE: The OVI store - Nokia provide a service for the developer (or not as it happens) so why should they not receive something? The amount is something for the publisher and Nokia to debate though. The point is though that Rovio are able to provide the software directly to you if they so wished.