[casual_games] Big piracy problem!

[Robert Headley]

All DRM is hackable.
DRM just serves to limit casual piracy though, which is what Chanon is
worried about.

Online authentication is probably the least hackable.

Ala steam/WoW etc

On Wed, Jun 4, 2008 at 12:40 PM, Andres Martinez <andres at bakno.com> wrote:


> 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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