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Originally Posted by monomer  The games industry has become the biggest entertainment industry for one, beating both movies and music.
Which means people are spending their moneys elsewhere.
That may be either a cause for the drop in sales of music, or it might be a reaction to the fact that people have money left from not buying music anymore, i'm not sure yet, propably a bit of both. |
Games use proprietary regulated hardware and moderated online networks. They can be piracy regulated. The piracy rate on X Box is negligible compared to with music or movies or more comparably PC games. Why? Because no one wants to get their X Box bricked by Microsoft Live.
Some people only respond to threats. If people could pirate those games instead they would. For the moment, remote monitored hardware and network gameplay means it's not always possible. Lucky for the games industry.