The illegal internet activities...

Governments have started to hunt hackers and pirates out of the net...well not quite that dramatic. Governments and their agencies are attempting to stop internet piracy, nearly every second week there is a new lawsuit against several pirates. Yet, it does not seem as if they actually succeed in reducing the material available online, some pirates seem to do what they do in contempt of those attempts. The common argument for pirating is the over-pricing that movie companies, music labels and game publishers often do. That the consumer is simply unable or willing to pay for the content provided sometimes it's a fairly small content too. Many Game publishers have become minimalistic with their packaging which doesn't even contain a decent manual in most cases. Some game publishers do not offer sufficient support to the player which is why they lose a portion of their costumers there which want to play the game but find that the legal option is far too expensive considering the content and the later support. If the content would contain things that are not download-able such as posters, maps etc. something that has appeared quite often in the packages of games published by Atari, the consumer might be willing to pay more if the publishers would be willing to provide more, such as the earlier named items. Yet, the only action which the publishers and other companies advocate is the use of force, since they are right and the consumer wrong. But this show of force has not helped their cause, it actually worsened the fight because due to the publicity given to the ways of file-sharing which educated more and more people in the ways of obtaining pirated software and other items.