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http://www.torrentfreak.com/piracy-is-theft-ridicu

<b> Piracy is Theft? RidiXXXXus. Lost
Sales? They Don't Exist, Says Minecraft Creator
</b>


The "piracy is stealing" argument
raises its head in the media every week and is on
the lips of anti-piracy outfits and copyright
holders every day. To them, every unauthorized
copy is a lost sale and another small dent in the
company spreadsheet which, when added to a
million others, will destroy it bit by bit. To
the maker of Minecraft, however, its an
opportunity. Piracy is theft? You must be
kidding. Lost sales? They don't
exist.

A quick look at the stats for the still-in-beta
PC game Minecraft reveals a very healthy business
indeed. At the time of writing the game has
4,880,757 registered users of which 1,469,513
(30.1%) have bought the game. In the last 24
hours alone, 36,618 people registered for
Minecraft.

But while virtually all other game developers
would be complaining about a near 70% of their
market being eaten away by parasites who could
not care less about the gaming industry or the
fate of those who work so hard for their
entertainment, <b> Minecraft creator
Markus "Notch" Persson </b> sees
the situation rather more
optimistically.

Speaking during the closing session yesterday at
the Independent Games Summit, Notch dismissed the
notion that piracy is the same as stealing, or
'looting' as incoming MPAA chief Chris Dodd
framed it this
week.

" <b> Piracy is not theft, </b>
" he said to those gathered in San
Francisco. " <b> If you steal a car,
the original is lost. If you copy a game, there
are simply more of them in the world. </b>
"

With this kind of reasoning one could be forgiven
for thinking that Notch has pirate sympathies but
since he's a self-confessed member of the Pirate
Party, that stance comes as no
surprise.

" <b> There is no such thing as a
'lost sale', </b> " he added with a
philosophy so Pirate-aligned it could be happily
transcribed directly into any of their press
releases. " <b> Is a bad review a lost
sale? What about a missed ship date? </b>
"

Notch was expected to talk about piracy for 5
minutes at GDC but in the event only managed
about 3 minutes, describing the experience as
"the scariest thing in a long time."
But while he may have only utilized 60% of his
available time, he appears to have packed in
value and left people wanting more, which
coincidentally is his game developers philosophy
too.

"If you just make your game and keep adding
to it, the people who copyright infringed would
buy it the next week," he told those in
attendance.

While anti-piracy zealots would insist that
Minecraft has a 70% piracy or "lost
sale" rate, Notch steadfastly sees his cup
as rather more full than the raw percentages of
his sales data may suggest, particularly by those
viewing them from the perspective of an outdated
business model. Indeed, despite this 'pro-piracy'
stance, Minecraft's position continues to
improve.

Back in September last year the game had 658,429
registered players, that's an increase of
4,222,328 in less than 5
months.

Currently 1,469,513 (30.1%) people have handed
over money in September that was 155,521
(23.62%) so its clear things are headed in the
right direction. In the 24 hour period we
examined in 2010, 4,910 people had bought
Minecraft. Yesterday 10,381 did
so.

"Piracy will win in the long run. It has
to," said Notch last year. "The
alternative is too
scary."

If making truckloads of money is scary to Notch,
he must be terrified right
now.effettivamente alla fine della fiera i titoli più piratati sono anche quelli più venduti. chissà perchè...