At the Game Business Law summit this week, Jason Holtman of Valve talked about many different subjects, one of them being pirates. He said that pirates aren't the bad guys. Sometimes, they want to pay, but don't really have means to get the game they are looking for.

"There's a big business feeling that there's piracy," he says. But the truth is: "Pirates are undeserved customers. When you think about it that way, you think, 'Oh my gosh, I can do some interesting things and make some interesting money off of it.'

We take all of our games day-and-date to Russia. The reason people pirated things in Russia is because Russians are reading magazines and watching television -- they say 'Man, I want to play that game so bad,' but the publishers respond 'you can play that game in six months...maybe.' "

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