GDC 2007: id Software CEO Talks Piracy

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Todd Hollenshead, CEO of id Software, has had to deal with PC game piracy multiple times during his tenure at id. In fact, Hollenshead mentioned that many of the projects the id Software team worked on ended up being stolen -- Quake, Quake II, Quake III Arena, Doom 3 Alpha. The U.S. computer and video game software industry grew to $7.4 billion in 2006, with an estimated loss of $2-to-3 billion lost from piracy -- the number does not include piracy that occurs over the Internet.... More