The Grind: June 29, 2018
Added 2018-06-29 23:20:39 +0000 UTCMatt's on vacation so there's no GameFace this week, but we've created an extra beefy Grind to make up for it. The sexy Japanese game conundrum, Billy Mitchell, Amy Hennig leaving EA, Captain Spirit, and more! This oneโs NSFW, though.
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This is a great alternative to game face
Henry Ramirez
2018-07-01 01:36:18 +0000 UTCGreat comments, Jerome!
2018-06-30 18:42:13 +0000 UTCI am against the idea that jailing act as a deterrent in most cases because of easy anonymity on the internet. Downloading mp3\games on torrents was\is a huge problem. However, you cannot deter anyone by imposing a huge jail sentence because the chance of arresting someone is too small. The music industry was never able to detter downloaders and they certainly devoted alot of ressources. This problem can be related to why insurance programs exist: people won't try to act on something if the event probability is really small and the personnal cost is high. Simply putted, on one side the benefit from illegal download\hacking is way higher than the probability of being caught. On the other side increasing the probability of arresting people is way too costly because of easy anonymity on the internet. In the end its like jailing a few people at random and this does no particular good for the society. Improving the product was part of a real solution for the music\movie industry (itunes, , netflix,...). You can say that this is immoral to hack and ruin games. However, if it is impossible to catch people consistently, say only 5% or 10%, I am against jailing because this leads to no deterrent effect and huge cost in both judicial procedure and jails. It would clearly fail any cost benefit analysis. Also, those that will get caught are likely the careless and not the people creating new hacks and being inventive... so you probably will end up jailing those that don't matter. For now I don't see an easy solution...
Jรฉrรดme Archambault
2018-06-30 02:14:14 +0000 UTC
