You even admit your description of someone becoming a full-fledged pirate to be a very extreme case and make a rule out of it. NEWS FLASH: Extreme cases are uncommon. Publishers hurting their sales? Piracy increasing? You don’t know that.

You’re also quite conceited to assume you have all the solutions. No one wants to pay £50 for a game? Then how come people are buying it at that price? I wouldn’t buy a PS3 at its current pricing, does that mean they have to lower it to something I can afford? Do you read yourself before you submit an article?

“Stop the extreme copy protection. You’ll drive people off if you keep doing it.” – more assumptions. You’d think developers would know it better than you if they were going to lose customers and act accordingly, no?

“Better demos”, “Create something new”, etc. – what does this have to do with piracy? The quality of games only affects your willingness to acquire them, not the means of doing so.

“If publishers notice a slip in sales and there’s an identifiable reason why, they will change their ways.” – and if they notice a slip in their sales they’ll change their ways at their own discretion… they’ll accept feedback but they wont lower the price tag because some tard went to whine in their forums.

You’re really not adding anything to the debate with all this.

You are right, lending games is prohibited tn almost all EULAs, however due to the fact it’s almost impossible to enforce, and if two people want to play the gamefrequently they need to buy another copy, most publisher’s leave it be.

You are right on your second point too, but clearing thier own houses will only prevent pre release piracy.

If you enjoyed this article I have a second piracy article on music: http://www.musicouch.com/Musicouching/Piracy-2-Music.160625