Piracy

In Real Life

Pirated Games Go For Two Bucks A Pop In Indonesia

9:00PM Yesterday | Brian Ashcraft

Spotted at an Indonesia game shop by Japanese site Game Watch Impress. All these Wii games are priced at Rp20,000 or around $2. More »


In Real Life

Scattered Discs And One Dollar Video Games

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2:15PM February 3, 2012 | Mark Serrels

When I was a kid, my Dad didn’t just condone piracy, he actively encouraged it.

“Why would ye pay 20 quid for a game when ye can get it for two pounds at the Barras?” He would ask. I was only nine years old. It was hard to argue with that logic. More »


News

7 Ways To Stop Piracy Without DRM

1:30PM February 3, 2012 | Seamus Bellamy - MaximumPC

Piracy’s a fact of life. As a defence against having their intellectual properties swiped, cracked and traded online like so many baseball cards, a lot of companies have turned to Digital Rights Management, a move that seldom does more than temporarily slow pirates and enrage paying customers. Fortunately, there’s a growing number of non-DRM related options out there for developers and software vendors to explore that’ll stymy piracy while respect the rights of their paying users. Let’s give ‘em a try. More »


Retro

Piracy Is The Only Thing Keeping Many Old Video Games Alive

3:00PM January 30, 2012 | Luke Plunkett

Pirating new video games is a crime. But there’s long been a rather grey area around the piracy of old games. And when I say old, I don’t mean 2008 old. I mean 1988 old. More »


News

The War Against Piracy Is As Much About Politics As It’s About Piracy

7:00PM January 23, 2012 | Luke Plunkett

This has long been a bit of an elephant in the room when it comes to “giant publishers talking about piracy”, so naturally it’s taken a representative from a small publisher to bring it up. More »


In Real Life

Jailed Megaupload King Is Still The World No. 1 In Modern Warfare 3

7:00AM January 23, 2012 | Owen Good

Kim Dotcom is the internet playboy who made his zillions by founding the now-defunct Anonymous cause celebre du jour Megaupload, and from the blatant hosting of pirated content there. But he also led a secret life, did you know? He is the deadliest shooter in all of Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 3. Really. More »


In Real Life

This Is What Dinosaurs Do

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1:00PM January 20, 2012 | Mark Serrels

This is what dinosaurs do: they stomp on things. They move slowly. Their brains are too small for their massive bodies. They lumber. They shriek at the sky. They go extinct. More »


News

‘Retreats’ Delay SOPA Hearings To February

8:50AM January 18, 2012 | Kirk Hamilton

House Judiciary Committee Chairman Lamar Smith (R-Texas) has issued a statement that due to Republican and Democratic “retreats”, hearings regarding the controversial Stop Internet Piracy Act (SOPA) will resume in February. SOPA’s Senate counterpart, the Protect IP Act, is scheduled for a vote on January 24.


In Real Life

These Video Game Companies Hunt Pirates For Cash

7:00PM January 17, 2012 | Luke Plunkett

You know how Witcher 2 developer CD Projekt were using German courts to go after alleged pirates of the game? And how they gave up when everyone told them how shitty the practice they were using was? Turns out CD Projekt are just the tip of the iceberg. More »


PC

"Games Lawyer" Doesn’t Understand Why People Hate Piracy Prosecution

5:00PM January 4, 2012 | Luke Plunkett

“Game Laywer” Jas Purewal has written an open letter to Edge, addressed to “those who defend game pirates”. You’d hope it’s a considered, practical approach to one of the muddiest topics this industry faces today. It is not. More »