Re:Ninjas? (Score 1)

I doubt companies really think they will be able to stop it but if they did not try that as good as them endorsing stealing their software. At least the remote possibility of punishment keeps most law abiding people in line. Granted many idividuals sometimes even myself (though I have gotten better lately with academic licensed software and OSS) will have pirated copies of software, notably overpriced commodity software (IE MS windows and Office). I believe MS makes most of their money from business where the potential of loss to due to infractions on EULAs is much greater than to a home user. Also it easier for a business to get caught, just takes one unhappy employee who just lost their job to give the BSA a call. Most Video game makers have solved the problem of pirated software with online play where each cd or copy of the game uniquely identifies itself and only one copy can play online at once. As a result downloading the game with net play functionality stripped from it is not as good and you will shell out the $40 or so for the game.