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Trials Dev Pirated Its Own Game To Drive Interest
2:40PM Owen Good | RedLynx, the developer of the well received downloadable title Trials, said that it seeded pirate torrent sites with neutered copies of the game in order to stoke interest in the title. More »
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To Catch A Modern Warfare 2 Cyber-Thief
5:20AM Mike Fahey | Modern Warfare 2 is already making an appearance at torrent sites all over the internet, but it could have been worse. Dean Takahashi reports on how IPCybercrime stopped one pirate from making his big score. More »
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Major Nelson Weighs In On 360 Console Bans
5:20AM Mike Fahey | Microsoft’s Larry “Major Nelson” Hryb discusses the recent string of Xbox Live piracy console bannings, delivering an important caveat to those purchasing used machines in the process. More »
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Xbox Live Smashes Mass Banhammer On Pirates
4:30PM Owen Good | “A small percentage” of Xbox Live users with modded consoles that allowed pirated games to play woke up to find an early treat in their Halloween bag: a banhammer. More »
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iPhone Game Piracy Rates Suck Too
10:20AM Michael McWhertor | The developers of iPhone beat ‘em up Tap Fu have taken a look at the piracy percentages on their recently released game and, man, are they a black belt calibre kick in the balls. More »
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Don’t Expect More PixelJunk PSP Ports Just Yet
11:00PM Brian Ashcraft | Kyoto-based developer Q-Games has brought its home console PSN PixelJunk experience to the PSP with PixelJunk Monsters Deluxe. It’s a first for the company, and perhaps, a last. More »
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Ready To Rat Out R4 Sellers? Nintendo Is Here To Help
8:00PM Brian Ashcraft | Earlier this year, Nintendo announced that it and 54 software game companies were filing a lawsuit with the Tokyo District Court against companies that import “R4 Revolution”-type devices, using the Unfair Competition Prevention Law as the legal grounding. More »
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Remembering The Early Days Of Copy Protection
10:30AM Owen Good | I remember when my copy of Legacy of the Ancients arrived with its codewheel. I fired up my 1200 baud acoustically-coupled modem, hit the BBS and ranted my indignation that I can do as I please with my purchase. More »
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Pirate Bay Buyers Banned From Stock Exchange
8:00AM Mike Fahey | Swedish stock market AktieTorget has banned potential Pirate Bay purchasers Global Gaming Factory X from offering stock, after determining that the company misled investors regarding their ability to buy the popular torrent site. More »
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