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Boy Admits Raping Sister After He Watched Porn On Xbox
A 13-year-old in the UK admitted to raping his eight-year-old sister, telling police he had been watching porn through his Xbox 360’s browser when he “decided to try it out”. The gut-wrenching case adds fuel to the controversy there over whether and how access to online pornography should be controlled.
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UK Anti-Porn Filters Might Screw Up League Of Legends Patches
The strict “anti-porn” filtering taking full effect in the UK this month might cause problems for some League of Legends users who haven’t called their ISPs to opt out of the screening. It seems the patcher is trying to access a couple of URLs with the letters S and E followed by X in them,…
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‘Redbox Robber’ Looted Kiosks For Two Years Before Being Caught
>Crime is a constant feature of video games writing. Somewhere, someone is doing something illicit with them — sometimes comically stupid, sometimes tragic. Kotaku‘s Police Blotter is here to round up the latest in games crime. All suspects are innocent until proven guilty in a court of law. He’s in the Empire Business PHOENIX —…
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Xbox Live To Refund UK Users Pinched By Currency Conversion ‘Mistake’
Microsoft is saying some pricing changes seen by UK Xbox Live customers trying out the new Xbox Live beta — in which Microsoft Points are converted to local currency — are an error, and these users will be compensated for the difference. The pricing changes, as currently implemented to beta users in Great Britain and…