'Twasn't pirates sunk our ship, 'twas crap

I think this week is some sort of anti-piracy thing. Or maybe it was last week. Today, a bit about piracy in the game industry.

Picture this. 1982. I'm at my new job designing video games for the Atari 2600. My boss starts talking about how piracy is killing the business. On his desk is a stack of video tapes, hand-labeled with movie titles. I point to them "Isn't that piracy?" He shakes his head. "That's different." The game industry took a nasty dive a year or so later. But it ...