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[The Little Raven]

Originally Posted by SteveC

There are many societies that are as near to being free of murder as any society made up of human beings can be. Once again, this is a political argument, and has no place on ENWorld.

"Near to being" is not the same as "being." There are no societies free of murder in the world. To claim otherwise is naive.

...and those people manage to accomplish what, exactly?

A reduction in the amount of piracy that affects our products.

I don't know which company you work for, but I would find it extremely likely that torrents of all of their products exist despite your lawyers best efforts.

We can't prevent it, but we can stem the tide, which is what we do. Just because it's impossible to completely prevent things does not mean you should simply stop trying.

If you work for any major software house, you're also in a position to have one or more orders of magnitude more resources available to you than WotC does.

We're not part of any big company. We're a moderate-sized developer. I'd say we probably have roughly the same legal resources available as Wizards (maybe a bit less, since they have Hasbro's backing).

Stopping software piracy is not synonymous with defending your IP.

No, but when your IP is software, it's a huge part of it.

Again, I seriously doubt that your company has managed to stop their products from being made available on the Internet.

Stopped? No. Reduced? Yes.