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Piracy EXPAND STORY TEXTSSubscribe to this tag UK devs: Piracy a 'problem,' but not 'threat to survival' 12 Piracy is, and always has been a threat to creative industry, and the gaming industry is no exception. However, a survey conducted by TIGA, a regional trade body, suggests that while the majority... Stealing Modern Warfare 2? Activision will hunt you down 63 Activision is not messing around when it comes to Modern Warfare 2, and has demonstrated that it will literally hunt down anybody engaging in shenanigans involving its massive FPS title. When one... Trials developer put game up on torrent sites 19 Those crazy cats at RedLynx did what? Yep, they put their PC game Trials up on torrent Web sites. But before you start calling the closest mental institution, hear the plan out. "Piracy is here, ... Pirates banned for Halloween on 360 44 Microsoft has come down hard on some pirates this Halloween. No, not the slutty girls in short skirts and low cut pirate blouses or the guys dressed up like Johnny Depp, silly. Gosh, why would yo... Pixeljunk pres pondering PSP Piracy 29 If Q-Games’ Dylan Cuthbert was sincere in a recent string of blue tweets (spotted by VG247), there’s a chance we might not see another PixelJunk videogame on the PSP. The president of... Nintendo, 53 publishers taking R4 sellers to court 30 The R4 has been a pirate's dream for many years, allowing gamers to essentially rip off the DS' entire library and carry it around on one little cart. Sure, many people claim to buy an R4 to &quo... Lil' Wayne has a modded Xbox? 72 Of course he does. "That's my joint right there."Not only does rapper Lil' Wayne's Xbox have "every game ever created," but it also has "every porno," which makes it... This looks like the PSPgo, but it totally isn't 40 Not bad, China. When you rip off something, you usually do a crap job. This? This looks like a PSPgo at first glace. Maybe even second glance. But it misses the mark on closer examination.What yo... The modern day sequel to Don't Copy That Floppy 43 Remember Don't Copy That Floppy? A modern day sequel was made. Yeah.[Thanks, Polo Guy] PSPgo gutted, battery is 'unofficially' user-replaceable 33 Breaking: PSPgo dismemberment reveals battery placement chicanery! You remember when Sony said that the PSPgo battery would be untouchable in an effort to curb piracy? Well, it turns out that the... BioWare: Piracy is always a problem 33 Piracy is a hot topic for any PC developer, so when I went to check out Dragon Age: Origins in Edmonton, I took the opportunity to ask BioWare whether a loyal fanbase makes piracy less of a probl... This happened: Mega Drive Guitar Idol 24 Tectoy in Brazil has this beast of a game system put together for your last last gen gaming needs. Mega Drive Guitar Idol is what they call it, though the name sounds closer to a sequel to a guit... Pirates in my Fat Princess? How heteronormative! 20 Titan Studios has dropped a rather big tease on its official blog, consisting of the above image and the simple battle cry: "Avast!" From the looks of things, pirates are coming to Fat ... That was fast: DSi firmware 1.4J already cracked 19 Just last week we reported on Nintendo's new Japanese firmware update, which managed to sneak in some flash cart blockery along with Facebook functionality. Several Destructoid readers shrugged o... id: Admit you stole Wolfenstein and we will MURDER you 26 Wolfenstein, like all good PC games, has been leaked onto the Internet for the freeloading enjoyment of dirty pirates. The Multiplayer portion of the game has been distributed online at the usual... Valve on how community helps against piracy 20 As you all know by now, Destructoid has been hanging out with Valve, bothering Chet Faliszek and Doug Lombardi with an endless stream of questions. We've had a full interview and some interesting... Man gets two years and fined $96,000 for DS piracy 19 Protip: Don't create a Web site offering over 1,000 DS games for illegal download unless you're really sure you won't get caught. Yoshiaki Asagiri wasn't so careful, and now a Kyoto District cour... New DSi update brings flash cart device blockery 33 We keep going back and forth on the whole DSi flash cart issue, mostly because Nintendo is working to keep these R4-ish devices out of the cartridge slot of your system. You see, they like it whe... Ubisoft blames DS piracy for 50% sales drop 32 Ubisoft isn't happy, and it's all your fault. The company that I've lovingly dubbed "The Activision of Europe" has posted a 50% sales drop from last year, placing sales at a figure 12% ... The Pirate Bay sold, going legit 51 In an announcement today, it has been learned that filesharing site, The Pirate Bay, has been sold for the tidy sum of $7.8 million. The purchase was made by Swedish software company, Global Gami... Captain Obvious: Pirates heart The Sims 3 in a big way 22 I know a guy who knows a guy whose brother heard that an unfinished version of The Sims 3 leaked onto the Internet fairly recently. Perhaps you heard the same?Anyway, Next Generation found out fr... DS flash carts = information terrorism! 39 The great piracy debate has accomplished only one thing -- the proliferation of alarmist buzz-words to make piracy sound ten times more sinister than it actually is. Industry types used to equate... Rock Band Unplugged leaks 37 The poor PlayStation Portable. It just can't catch a break -- well other than that redesign everyone is buzzing about. It's like the little engine that could, but it can't quite make it to the to... DSi finally penetrated by pirates, ravaged without mercy 59 One of the biggest motives behind the development of the DSi was surely to curtail the huge amount of piracy that has affected previous incarnations of the system, thanks to the rise of the R4 Ca... Demigod dev to pirates: Accept you're a thief 89 You may have heard by now that recently released PC game Demigod has been thoroughly raped by pirates, to the point where, at one point, only 12% of the title's online users were legitimate custo... No sh*t: PSP piracy has taken a 'huge chunk' of game sales 31 SCEA's Peter Dille has been chatting to Gamasutra about a number of things, not least the infamous PSP piracy problem. With Sony not really doing much with its handheld system until recently, hom... ESA celebrates the Pirate Bay convictions 36 You must surely be aware by now that the founders of popular file-sharing site The Pirate Bay have recently been convicted of breaking copyright law and are due to be imprisoned for one year. Fre... DRM drama over Riddick: Assault on Dark Athena 25 So, Atari has come forward and announced that Riddick: Assault on Dark Athena for the PC is going to come with some DRM. DRM in the form of an activation system. An activation system that lets yo... Japan bans R4, Japanese gamers shrug and continue playing 25 I'm a fu*cking nerd, and that's why I insist on having the actual game in my collection over some download. But that doesn't mean I can't appreciate the charms of an end-all cartridge that holds ... Nintendo still pissed about piracy, asks US Trade Representative for help 28 Nintendo is so pissed about piracy that they're calling out countries by name now. I guess they're not making enough money on the DS and Wii already. They blame game copiers and mod chips for the... A pirate is just a customer you haven't met, claims Valve 38 I've often said that while many publishers and developers whine about piracy and the PC market, there's a little company called Valve which rarely seems to bitch about it. Valve's Jason Holtman m... Good grief: Championship Manager has a 90% piracy rate 37 Just like World of Goo, Beautiful Game Studios’ soccer simulation Championship Manager is experiencing a 90 percent piracy rate. In a CVG interview (via Edge), BGS’ general manager Ro... Spore wins 'Most Pirated Game of the Year' award 60 Okay, so no such award actually exists, and if it did, I doubt publisher Electronic Arts would be proud to accept it. Spore, the game that has become completely overshadowed by its anti-piracy co... Fake DS Lites causing Christmas panic 13 Everybody go hysterical! HM Revenue and Customs has uncovered what it claims to be "hundreds" of fake DS Lites imported into the United Kingdom, and it's warned consumers that it may no... PSP piracy sliding, not because all the good games have been downloaded 22 Piracy of PlayStation Portable games and the utilization of the device as a piracy machine are on the downturn, according to Sony’s hardware marketing head John Koller. A two-month downturn... Hide your R4 cards: three Japanese R4 sellers busted! 21 It's funny how openly people discuss their use of the R4 card and where they purchased them in gamer circles, but then again, it's not like most people fear being busted by the police for playing... Wankers: World of Goo has a 90% piracy rate 63 Good old gamers, always looking after the little man. Indie game World of Goo, a title made by just two people, is suffering from an amazing 90% piracy rate. Designer Ron Carmel has confirmed rep... ESA raid on a Mexican market nets 91,200 illegal video games 36 The folks at the Entertainment Software Association took a trip to Mexico recently. They came back with nice tans, a slight margarita hangover, oh... and 91,200 copies of illegal videogames. The ... PSP 3000 is a tough nut to crack, pirates having difficulty 18 Everybody knows that the PlayStation Portable is a pirate's wet dream, having been a shining beacon of firmware cracks and homebrew applications since its release. Sony has been intent on fightin... Atari accuses elderly couple of software piracy 22 A while ago, we posted a story about a massive war on videogame piracy being waged in the UK by Atari, Codemasters and a bunch of smaller publishers that nobody cares about. The crackdown uses me... Captain Obvious: Gears of War 2 leaked on the Internet 53 Hey guys, have you heard the news? Things get LEAKED on the INTERNET! Yeah, I never saw that one coming either, but apparently the latest victim is Gears of War 2, having been hacked and distribu... The PC Gaming Alliance's view on piracy isn't as bleak as others 23 Anyone involved in PC gaming knows that piracy of games is rampant, and this has developers running scared. Ubisoft recently said that they wouldn't release the PC version of Tom Clancy's EndWar ... Idiotic PSP modders advertise services on Craiglist, claims Sony 15 Sony has filed suit against Gabriel Garcia and Timothy Joey Zoucha, Jr., a pair of would-be entrepeneurs who were allegedly using Craiglist to advertise their PSP piracy business. The none-too-sm... Brainy person: Piracy is a 'great equalizer' 24 Dr. Henry Jenkins of M.I.T is probably a very clever man and he has a great beard. I consider this enough of a qualification for me to take everything he says as gospel, and his message on this ... Publishers 'scared' to go DRM-free, says online game distributor 17 CD Projekt CEO Michal Kicinski has stated that videogame publishers are "scared" of letting their games go on sale without being given a hearty DRM vaccination. CD Projekt is setting up... Call of Duty pirate being sued by Activision 25 Activision shows that they're not messing around, even when it comes to their 2006 videogames that have been marked down to $30. Poor pirate James R. Strickland of New York has been busted by Act... So you wanted that Wii Backup Loader? Too bad 35 Remember that Wii Backup Loader I chatted you up about last week, that would "swing open" the doors of piracy for the not so clever yo-ho-ho's that hadn't hacked their own consoles mont... Hackers delight: new Wii Backup Loader swings wide the doors of piracy 33 I'm no so sure hackers need any encouragement, as they seem to continually find their way into fine products and mod them to their liking, but the Wii Backup Loader may actually make it possible ... Spore is getting pirated like crazy: Karma at work? 74 I don't usually find piracy easy to justify, but considering that EA has been pig-headed to the extreme over the use of SecuROM in its products -- a measure deemed harmful to the enjoyment of the... Crytek thinks pirates would buy Crysis if they had to 44 The "I wouldn't have bought it anyway" defense is one of the Ten Golden Rules of videogame piracy (I rule at plugging) but it's a rule that Crysis developer Crytek doesn't find entirely... 15 months in jail for porn and videogames 22 A Bristol man has won himself fifteen months of prison for a stockpile of pirated videogames, movies and delicious pornography. 51-year-old Gary Boulter of Thornbury was found guilty of running a... Just how legit is the anti-piracy fight? Not very, according to .biz 21 You should all be aware by now that Codemasters, Atari and a bunch of no-name developers have clubbed together to pursue as many as 25,000 software pirates in the UK. Now, the tactic of trying to... Peter Moore: Better ways to fight piracy than lawsuits 16 Electronic Arts executive Peter Moore has been talking piracy following the news that a coalition of game studios were pursuing cases against thousands of British software pirates. Rather than su... Hollenshead thinks piracy is hardware industry's 'dirty little secret' 20 It seems like whenever we talk PC gaming, piracy always enters into the conversation. There’s good reason for that according to id Software CEO Todd Hollenshead in an interview with gamesin... All-in-one system seller sent to prison, fined 34 You know those stupid 69,000-in-one consoles you see at flea markets and street vendors? They're the ones that look like a Nintendo 64 controller and have several dozen NES games tucked away on s... Up to 25,000 videogame pirates could get buggered in the UK 24 If you're a British game pirate, take note -- the industry is out on the prowl, and its prey is your hairy, quivering arse. Several videogame companies in the UK are mounting an offensive&nb... ESA picks up a former RIAA executive 22 It looks like the Entertainment Software Association wants to put a bit more crackdown in their crackdowns of copyright infringement with the addition of a former Recording Industry Association ... Game sharer charged over 16,000 pounds for a pinball game 17 If you're sharing games on a P2P network, then I would advise extreme caution, unless you have over £16,000 to spare. London's Patents County Court recently ordered an unnamed British woman... Pirates tell developer why they steal his games 49 Indie game developer Cliff Harris has been trying to crack into the mind of a software pirate, calling for those who steal his work to confidentially come forward and explain themselves. Promisin... A bit of gaming history: EA reverse engineered its own Genesis devkit 14 As a kid, blast processing my way to greatness with my Sega Genesis, I was always puzzled why some games (particularly those published by Electronic Arts) were slightly larger than the standard c... « NEXT « next - expanded blog view		Save cash!   See "Black Friday" video game deals New on Destructoid.TV play all videos Loading Destructoid Videos Win this! 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