piracy
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Microsoft Contractor Reportedly Made $500,000 Trafficking Modded Xbox 360s
3A Washington man made almost half a million dollars selling Xbox 360s modified to play pirated games, the FBI alleges, but here’s the kicker — he did so while he was a Microsoft contractor, and even after he was sued by Activision for pirating its games.
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This Game Sold 144 Copies And Was Pirated 50,000 Times
Gentlemen! is, in the words of its creator “a 2-player head-to-head Victorian dueling game for tablets.” There is no singleplayer mode and its multiplayer is local only. This wouldn’t figure to be an attractive piracy target, but the game’s features don’t seem to matter. In its first three weeks Gentlemen! was downloaded more than 50,000…
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Patch Will Give Jailbroken Deus Ex Players The Ability To Shoot
After yesterday’s uproar over new mobile game Deus Ex: The Fall disabling guns on jailbroken iOS devices, Eidos parent Square Enix has announced plans to remove the function via an upcoming game update, apologizing for not being clear about the restriction up front.
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Protesting Piracy In China With…Blow-Up Dolls
Late last week at Peking University in Beijing, China, men wearing skimpy underwear and carrying inflatable friends streaked the university’s north campus and tried to jump into Weiming Lake. Then, university security showed up. That’s when all hell broke loose.