Game Publisher Looking For Terrorism Link...I keed you not..
Tuesday, September 28th, 2004 - 3:11pm
Interesting thesis. If nothing else, fill out questionnaire linky for possible free stuff...
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Interesting thesis. If nothing else, fill out questionnaire linky for possible free stuff...
My bad, the questionniare link will likely only work for the free goods if you live in the U.K.
Yes.. fill out this questionaire asking you about your attitude towards illegal activities and whether you participate in said activities.. it''s completely anonymous... trust us..
Coincidently, my company just used SurveyMonkey for a survery we sent out to our customers. The results we got back contained the IP address for each responder...
Mr T broke the speed of light in the A-Team van because he wanted to prove that quantum physics was a bunch of Jibba Jabba.
Filled it out, you never know.
Actually I''ve been entering lots of compos lately, not all of them thankfully call me to risk my future career in a questionaire.
"A fanatic is one who can't change his mind and won't change the subject." - Churchill
The only way I could see this as something profit-like is that in a LOT of areas of the world that aren''t, say, the US and Britain, Piracy of all sorts is not only rampant, but not that huge of a deal. Go to your local Macedonian Video Rental store, and what can you choose from? The Matrix Revolutions on DVD? But that just got released 3 weeks ago in the US in the theaters! Visit an Iraqi Music store (there was even a special on MTV about this very thing, hosted by Gideon Yago, IIRC) and you''ll find a pretty well produced, but obviously pirated, copy of most all the music we have in the states.
And I suppose, yes, a terrorist could be making money off of this. But it seems less likely that it''s government officials saying ""Terrorism is bad, let''s get to piracy first and cut off their money supply"" and more likely that it''s gaming/recording/film companies saying ""Piracy is bad (for us), let''s link it to Terrorism so people will stop doing it.
XBox Live Gamertag: Warlockbert
Yep, that sounds more likely to me. I''m sure piracy of various software/music/dvds/whatever does account for some income for terrorists, but really, they have a host of ways to get money, software piracy is likely little more than a very small part of it.
Graktar, Orc Hunter