Laziness is a big one: it's simply easier to click a link than to fill out the fields needed to donate even a single cent. Rosen came up with a few reasons people feel the need to pirate games. "That means there are no download limits, everything is reachable on the command-line with 'wget', you can resume downloads, and do anything else you would expect to be able to do with a personal download link." Linux users in particular praised these decisions to make the downloads painless. Not only do the games themselves have no copy protection (not even a simple serial number check), but the Humble Indie Bundle website has limited copy protection," Rosen wrote on the official blog. "When I say this bundle is DRM-free-I really mean DRM-free. Pirating the Humble Bundle titles is easy. Those who e-mailed and said they couldn't pay? The number was so low that Rosen personally made a contribution on their behalf. They could have e-mailed us (we're currently at inbox zero for support requests)." Rosen claims they received thousands of technical support questions throughout the week, about 10 of them relating to payment. Some people rationalize it by claiming they can't pay-but they could have asked their mom. "A lot of the common rationalizations for piracy simply don't exist here: DRM, an agent between you and the developers, or high prices. Rosen points out that the Bundle has stripped away nearly every rationalization for piracy.
"People will literally not pay a penny to a charity in order to legitimately get a bundle of games that they want." "I think piracy is absolutely inevitable-this is a really clear example of it," Rosen said.
We spoke to Jeffery Rosen, cofounder of Wolfire Games, about the piracy rate of the Humble Bundle. Unpacking the actual numbers behind piracy is often difficult, but Wolfire has been incredibly transparent about its numbers. The result is strong evidence that no matter what steps developers take, piracy will still be an issue. So why does it look like one quarter of the people enjoying the games have pirated them? There is absolutely no DRM on any of the games. You can pay as little or as much as you want, and you can donate some or all of the money to the included charities.
The games work on Windows, Mac OS X and Linux. The Humble Bundle is a great deal for gamers for a number of reasons.
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