News Tagged: piracy

BBC reports that after a massive online protest, that took place on Wednesday, the US Protect IP Act (PIPA) and the Stop Online Privacy Act (SOPA) have been postponed indefinitely. House Judiciary Committee Chairman Lamar Smith (R-TX) had this to say: "I have heard their concerns regarding proposed legislation to address the problem of online piracy...

Major companies such as Sony Computer Entertainment, Nintendo and EA officially pulled support for the Stop Online Piracy Act, which was created to "promote prosperity, creativity, entrepreneurship, and innovation by combating the theft of U...

According to people who took part in our recent voting poll, piracy is 'good' because, well, games are too expensive. That's at least how we've put things in our poll. Here are the final results: All things considered, piracy is: Good, because games are too expensive...

According to a report made by US trade body the Entertainment Software Association, 33 countries fail to adequately protect IP rights. The worst among these are, apparently, Italy, China, Spain, Brazil and France, which presumably represent 54% of global peer-to-peer game file sharing in 2010...

As video game publishers continue their desperate struggle against that foul whore piracy, gamers often find themselves on the receiving end of crappy anti-piracy measures such as Ubisoft disastrous DRM scheme. But like many foul whores, piracy also serves its purpose when the going gets tough...

After yesterday's news that Sony sued PS3 hackers, we now found out the groups have responded to the company's claims. The group called fail0verflow -- partly responsible for reverse-engineering PS3's security key generation process -- responded: "Our motivation was Sony's removal of OtherOS...

Sony Computer Entertainment America is suing hacker George Hotz, as well as over 100 others (also members of fail0verflow), for publicly revealing the root key details and cracks for the corporation's console, the PlayStation 3. In case you were unaware, in 2010 Hotz published an exploit for the PS3...

Looks like the shooter Halo: Reach got leaked and is already available for illegal download via various file-sharing websites. Apparently Halo: Reach -- due out September 14 -- was made available for reviewers through Xbox Live Marketplace (the download weighs around 7GB)...

Unlike most of Ubisoft's recent major releases such as Assassin's Creed 2, Prince of Persia: The Forgotten Sands and Splinter Cell: Conviction, the upcoming strategy game R.U.S.E. will not be utilizes the publisher's controversial DRM. As it turns out, the game is going to empoy Steam...

According to Blizzard, their efforts on Battle.net paid off, as the development studio claims it successfully reduced the incentives for pirates for their games, including the freshly released strategy StarCraft 2: Wings of Liberty. Michael Ryder...

Namco Bandai Partners VP, Olivier Comte. commented recently that Ubisoft's controversial DRM system is "a good strategy" - albeit only because there isn't a better alternative at the moment he said. Namco stressed that until something better is brought to the table, Ubisoft DRM scheme - which requires a constant Internet connection - is what's best...

As most of you probably know, Ubisoft's new PC DRM, currently included in the company's recent releases such as Silent Hunter V and Assassin's Creed II, requires players to have a constant Internet connection so the game can be experienced. The protection system caused a lot of problems for a majority of legit users...

Nintendo, the Japan-based industry giant, is blaming piracy for the company's 50% drop in sales of DS games in Europe. According to this report, the device in question allow users to circumvent the anti-piracy measures built into the Nintendo DS handheld...

*SIGH* Well, we must all be out of our minds then. Apparently, Microsoft did not ban one million users (who own modded Xbox 360s) from Xbox Live. At least that's what the company is saying now. The story surfaced about two weeks ago from InformationWeek and was subsequently carried by many reliable news agencies including BBC...

Microsoft announced that anywhere between an estimated 600,000 and 1 million players using Xbox Live will be cut off from the service because they have "modified their game consoles or played games that were illegally downloaded from file-sharing sites, according to the company...