As long as it is possible to pirate, it will ALWAYS be around, people dont want to pay for things, its simple as that, i will admit, I do have the modified xbox 360 to play backups, because i have already wasted £100 on buying additional games, 1st incident was my friend at a LAN party got a little excited at GRAW and kicked the table which had the xbox on, it moved it and scratched the disc rendering it useless! I KNOW it says in the manual dont move it but accidents happen, and although I understand the importance of it half of my mates think im exaggerating, now they believe me
The 2nd game i re-bought was MotoGP06, i told my m8 to unplug the AV cable, so he picked it up and unplugged it, i heard the noise and knew straight away!
No matter how many times i repeat myself, some people just dont get it (aka my mates) that you musnt move the xbox whilst its on! THATS why i ONLY play backups and keep my retails in a disc wallet somewhere safe ;-)
I think one of the only ways to 'crack' piracy (pun intended
) is drop the prices of them! I used to have copied dvds, but for the price of retails it isnt worth it, id much rather have a retail with a retail sleeve etc sitting on my unit instead of a copy!
The one and only reason i dont pirate games is simply because i work in the programming industry and i know how it feels to have your work "ripped" and distributed when you spent many many hours working on it!
Pirating is bad, if everybody decided to pirate, nobody would make any games and sell any consoles! The whole world would have to turn to open-source (a good thing? lol).
I agree that the games are becoming more and more fragile. I'm personally waiting for some sort of hdd loader for the 360 before I mod mine. From my experience with the previous xbox, there is significant reduction in load time and you never have to worry about changing a game disc every time you want to play a different game. I'm not necessarily advocating piracy, but anyone out there who pays 400+ for a game console and 60 bucks for a video game has the right to do whatever they see fit with it. They paid for it therefore it belongs to them.