[casual_games] Big piracy problem!

[Andres Martinez]

Hello Chanon

A robust DRM system is the best defense against such threat.

Recently we signed a distribution deal with a portal, but we found the  
DRM they use is "hack-able".

We prefer to keep the name of the portal, but I suggest you make a  
double check on your partner's DRM.

Regards,
Andres Martinez
www.baKno.com

On Jun 4, 2008, at 12:14 PM, Chanon Sajjamanochai wrote:


> Hi everyone,

>

> I'm running into a very bad piracy problem with our latest game.

> The google search results for First Class Flurry has a pirated  

> version on

> the first page.

> It is not a torrent site but a page with a direct download link:

> http:// gamyy dot com / english / games / 1435 . htm

> (url obfuscated, replace dot with . and remove spaces)

>

> I fear that I might be losing tons of sales because of this.

>

> If you look at the home page:

> http:// gamyy dot com / english / index . htm

> You might even see your own game.

>

> What can I/we do?

>

> If you look at the alexa traffic history of this site you will see  

> that it's

> traffic is increasing very rapidly - meaning we're all possibly  

> losing tons

> of sales because of it.

>

> I think this is a lot worse than torrent sites, because I think the  

> target

> demographic doesn't use bittorrent. This is just a simple download  

> from a

> simple webpage.

>

> For me, I hope that as First Class Flurry goes up on more sites/ 

> portals,

> they will help push this page down. But even for Dream Chronicles 2  

> I'm

> seeing the gamyy page of it on only the 4th google search result page.

>

> Thanks for reading and I'd love to hear your ideas.

>

> Chanon

> Viqua Games

>

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