Why Video Game piracy is killing itself

In the first of this two part series, I discuss piracy whilst eating crumpets, drinking tea and stroking my monocle.

Lately I've been considering piracy, no, not the high seas plundering and looting, Jack Sparrow kind, but the kind where people are downloading game releases via torrent and other means. What these people don't seem to comprehend is that they are, in effect, bringing about their own destruction. Not by the way you might think, as in being caught or prosecuted against, but by the might of the games companies simply making it pointless.

On our journey to discover the end of the piracy adventure, let's start at the very beginning of the phenomenon. Long before CD's with keys, games with DRM systems and even the high speed internet we have today, there were pirates operating to the side of the law. The original games, such as those for primitive computers were stored on floppy disks, others, for systems like the ZX Spectrum and Commodore were on Cassette Tapes.

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