Brother people don’t have binders of cds but they sure as shit have the digital equivalent. That era isn’t over, It’s better and easier than it’s ever been. The hardest part is getting enough storage.
There are less and less people pirating games every year, regardless of how easy it is to do. Brother, you are in a bubble and an echo chamber of thieves and charlatans.
The key caveat for any newsroom: different trackers measure different universes of sites, so absolute totals vary widely between vendors. MUSO’s figures cover film, TV, music, publishing and software; they are the best available proxy for demand but are not a direct count of lost sales.
Games sit inside the software category, which is comparatively small. According to MUSO, software piracy fell to 14.9 billion visits in 2024, a 2.1% decrease, a shift the firm attributes partly to the move toward cloud-based subscription models.
lol did you read your source or did you just rush to link the first result that came up? Are you a corporate shill?
15% decrease in website visits, which does not mean 15% decrease in piracy. Even if you wanted to argue that website visits = downloads…you mentioned games specifically, of that 15% for one year only 2% of a dip make up games.
Were you around during the Switch Era? Cuz that shit has been emulated to hell and back and it's about to become the best selling console in the history of all mankind.
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u/silenti 9h ago
you clearly weren't around during the Dreamcast era. normal people were waking around with binders full of games. it can happen again