ECD Systems, the technology leader in protecting valuable PC game assets during entire product life, released details from the panel entitled Can the Cost of Piracy Be Measured? Held at the Game Developers Conference in San Francisco on March 9, 2005. Click here for Press Release
The panel was moderated by Elliot Klugman (VP, Business Development) for ECD Systems and included panelists Stevan Mitchell (VP, Intellectual Property Policy) from Entertainment Software Association, Jim Summers (VP, Quality Assurance & Customer Support) from Activision, and Ian Lane Davis (CEO) of Mad Doc Software, LLC.
“We also did a series of gamer surveys and found out some really
dramatic things about piratical behavior. Of the 300 gamers that we surveyed,
a full 28% had acknowledged having acquired pirated games, not just one
but a mean number of 5 in the past year.”
Stevan Mitchell
ESA
“I think a very important point is that it’s the titles
that are the most successful that get picked off.”
Jim Summers
Activision
VIDEO DOWNLOADS
Stevan Mitchell Outraged about Commercial Piracy (Download
.wmv file 991kb)
Stevan Mitchell presenting Canada Study (.wmv file 1948kb)
Stevan Mitchell presenting Canada Study Results (.wmv file 1911kb)
Stevan Mitchell presenting Malaysia Study Results (.wmv file 1963kb)
Stevan Mitchell on How To Measure Piracy (.wmv file 949kb)
Ian Davis on the Effects of Piracy (.wmv file 1902kb)
AUDIO DOWNLOAD
Listen to the entire GDC conference ( .mp3 file 7.77mb)