TY - JOUR
AU - Depoorter, Ben
AB -  V A viewpoints DOI:10.1145/2594289 Ben Depoorter Law and Technology What Happened to Video Game Piracy? How video games thrive in a world of piracy. widely documented, online file-sharing technologies generated considerable turmoil in the music industry over the past decade. The mainstream peer-to-peer network Napster introduced an era of noncommercial music copyright infringements. Music copyright violations reached unprecedented heights as consumers illegally downloaded music through a wide array of decentralized peerto-peer (P2P) file-sharing platforms and torrent Web sites. Compelled by a marked decline in traditional record sales, major music record labels had to downsize and restructure their business models in order to tap into alternative sources of revenue, including proceeds from concerts, advertising income, and so forth.4 While all of this came to pass, the video game developers ... found out that everything would be all right. Judging from the overall expansion of the video game industry, it appears almost as if the industry skipped the "Napster moment" of the Internet piracy and illegal file sharing. In 2013, the video game industry was on track to generate $93 billion in revenue (up from $78 billion in 2012) and the introduction of new home consoles is expected to drive 
TI - What happened to video game piracy?
JF - Communications of the ACM
DO - 10.1145/2594289
DA - 2014-05-01
UR - https://www.deepdyve.com/lp/association-for-computing-machinery/what-happened-to-video-game-piracy-XKXAh2wQr8
SP - 33
VL - 57
IS - 5
DP - DeepDyve
ER -