14 DAY TRIAL // Who could have believed thirty years ago, that in the future, there would be people getting paid for playing games? Nowadays, we see game testers and game reviewers getting paid and having fun while playing games, then there's the gaming industry and of course the underground gaming industry. We've seen many cases of console pirates being arrested recently and it seems that law enforcement agencies have set their eyes upon this sort of criminal activities.
Scott Giddins is one of the those pirates, as he had sold Xbox, PlayStation and PC games earning about 10.000 pounds. Of course that was not all he was selling, as the man also had music and porn on display. All this content was available on his website at low prices, like 2.50 pounds for a game. Mister Giddins was caught with the aid of an undercover agent, pretending to be one of the pirate's customers in order to buy a couple of those illegal games.
The 35-year old man admitted most of the charges and will have to serve 12 months in jail and pay 3000 pounds, also having his equipment made unusable. I wonder what weighed more before reaching the verdict, porn pirating or game pirating? Or could it be that he was convicted for selling digital music illegally?
What's certain is that, if you have plans of starting a modding business or an online pirate store, you should either be extremely cunning or not a UK citizen, because most of the game pirate arrests have happened there. Let's stick to the original games, shall we? After all, the developers' profit can be turned into a reason to produce more quality titles, encouraging a positive cycle in the gaming industry.
Will the sci-fi future bring us violent gaming pirates shooting the customers for not paying or infiltrating Sony's headquarters, in the search of the newest title?