nakedfrog
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Originally posted by: Xavier434
In short, I haven't noticed a big difference in PC gaming between the time that pirating wasn't as popular to now. If I had to make a guess though, I would say that pirating has made gaming a more popular hobby. Perhaps the sales figures that big companies are seeing today would be much less if games weren't available to pirate for free back when that hobby was just gaining some serious popularity? Free stuff often hooks people resulting in more money being spent in the future. I'm just speculating of course. Who knows?
When exactly was this mythical time that pirating wasn't that popular?
Even in the days before the Internet was widespread, you could make a 1:1 copy of a friend's disk and photocopy the manual, or write down stuff from a code wheel, or find a crack from a BBS. There were crack programs that had cracks for dozens of games within one program.