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If anyone thinks that chipped consoles and pirated console copies aren't rampant, think again. I talked to the kid next door and almost all his buddies get their games for free. I don't know of one person who owns a console who doesn't also own a computer. To say that consoles are more secure is BS.

There are chipped consoles and pirated copies for sure. There are also measures in place on the console live networks that detect abuse and ban the users. Not 100% effective by a long way but still more secure than PC gaming I would have thought. Do ISPs ban people's accounts for using pirate copies of PC games?

I would add to this something a lot of people don’t consider when discussing piracy on PC vs. console. To play pirate games on a console requires a hardware mod, now I realise in saying this some people know how to perform these modifications, and others know who to pay to get it done but PC doesn’t require any hardware modification to play pirate games and so it is automatically much easier to access, anyone regardless of hardware knowledge can play pirate games on PC. This isn’t the case for console and that in addition to the other methods in place do contribute hugely to the scale affecting each system.

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