piracy

CD Projekt Will Fine Witcher 2 Pirates

CD Projekt turned a number of heads recently by offering their upcoming game The Witcher 2: Assassin of Kings on Good ol’ Games, which means the game would have absolutely no DRM. This means that someone, after buying the... Continue »

Gaikai’s David Perry: Mandatory Server Connections Will Save PC Gaming

Gaikai CEO David Perry shared his perspective and love for PC Gaming in a recent interview, stating that even though piracy is an issue, letting the PC sector of gaming die out would be a “crazy mistake.” “The piracy... Continue »

7000 Illegal Games Seized in Canada

There’s not a lot to do in Saskatoon. In a place that sounds like somewhere Bugs Bunny got lost, its surprising that it is Canada’s Most Dangerous City according to a study last year. Not wanting to get their... Continue »

Private Investigators are Tracking COD: Black Ops Copies

Meet “Computer Healer.” Using some donations, he recently bought a copy of Call of Duty: Black Ops for $400 from a shady guy named “Ungodly” at a closed Chili’s restaurant. Soon after, he got a call from a Private... Continue »

3DS to Fight Piracy with Automatic Updates

And no, this isn’t the sort of automatic where you have to click a button and then the 3DS does the rest. According to Nintendo President Satoru Iwata, the 3DS will automatically download and install firmware updates. More than... Continue »

PlayStation 3 Hacked by Damn Near Everything

embedded by Embedded Video Following the release and subsequent backlash of the PSJailbreak, the hardware used to circumvent the PlayStation 3′s copy protection has been utilized in just about everything. Most amusingly, modders have inserted the PSGroove into an... Continue »

Super Street Fighter IV PC Release Unlikely Due to Piracy

Super Street Fighter IV producer Yoshinori Ono related that a PC port of the game is unlikely to happen, due to extremely high piracy rates of the original game. Though Street Fighter IV actually sold very well for the PC... Continue »

PlayStation 3 Jailbroken with a Calculator

embedded by Embedded Video PS3Jailbreak knocked down the door, and now everyone’s rushing in. Just to prove how easy it can be to circumvent the PlayStation 3′s copy protection, YouTube user ti83programmer uploaded a video of a TI-84 graphing... Continue »

Playing Unauthorized Halo: Reach Will Get You Banned

While this seems obvious it bears repeating since some folks conveniently forget. Even though Halo: Reach may or may not have been leaked early, Xbox Live Director of Policy Enforcement Stephen “Stepto” Toulouse posted a few tweets reminding everyone... Continue »

PlayStation 3 Possibly Cracked

embedded by Embedded Video After a record-setting four year run of diverting piracy, the PlayStation 3 may soon be the next home for widespread digital theft thanks to the PSJailbreak – a USB dongle that can bypass the PlayStation... Continue »

R4 DS Cards Now Illegal in UK

The London High Court outlawed the import, advertising, or sale of R4 flash cards in the UK today in a ruling against Playables Limited. Defendant Wai Dat Chan argued that the R4 merely allows users to run homebrew applications... Continue »

Nintendo Wins Piracy Case

Retailers selling R4 flash cards and Wii mod chips unsuccessfully argued against Nintendo in a Netherlands court case. The sellers of the popular Wii and DS piracy tools claimed Nintendo was attempting to stifle competition by objecting to the... Continue »

3DS Piracy-Proof, According To THQ

THQ’s executive VP of global publishing Ian Curran both expressed his excitement over the anti-piracy technology in the 3DS and jinxed himself by claiming that the 3DS will be immune to piracy in an interview with CVG. “ combated... Continue »