Alysenne

The explosion of bittorrent and other filesharing services is probably the primary source of piracy. The use of these p2p applications is international and ubiquitous. Even computer illiterate people are taking advantage because it's just so easy.

Sadly, piracy really is as big a problem as the developers say it is. Judging by my extended circle of PC gamer friends in college, everyone was playing pirated games. They only bought games when a unique code was needed for online play.

The problem is that it is just soooo easy to pirate and when developers try to add safeguards, there is a huge outcry. Even if the price of games was cut in half, people would still do it.