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Violent Games Have Become Illegal in Venezuela

Video games have been considered a blight on society by many individuals, scattered more or less evenly around the globe. The interactive and immersive nature of the violent titles, along with the explicit gore, led some to voice out their strong belief that these games had a direct impact on the mind of the young, d...

6 November 2009
03:20 GMT

Psystar Ordered to Pay $5,000 in Attorneys' Fees

By filing a motion found to be completely baseless, Judge Alsup ordered Florida-based Mac clone maker Psystar to pay Apple $5,000 in attorneys' fees, Edible Apple reports. But even now, walking on ice that’s thinner than ever, Psystar continues to introduce new systems pre-installed with Leopard, in what l...

27 August 2009
04:20 GMT

Final Snow Leopard Build Leaked on Torrent Sites

Softpedia has learned that Snow Leopard Build 10A432 has already been made available to the public via file sharing web sites. Build 10A432 of the software is said to have reached a Golden Master (GM) status this week, with pressing personnel awaiting the order to make the installation discs. Apple hasn’t offi...

13 August 2009
06:23 GMT

iPhone OS 3.0 Beta 3 Leaked and Available for Download

Softpedia has learned that Apple's latest iPhone OS 3.0 beta has hit torrent sites and is currently available for download, for iPhone 3G and iPod touch first-generation, although not approved by Apple. The two files are listed as:- “iPhone.3G.OS.3.0.BETA.3.build.7A280f.TL” and - “iPod.Touch.fi...

17 April 2009
04:50 GMT

EA Sends Brass Knuckles to Press, Wants Them Back

Video games are becoming a big part of our daily lives, as we are literally flooded with a lot of brand new titles each and every week of the year. The multitude of new games appearing makes the marketing department of any big publisher very important, as it is its job to make the title stand out and appear fresh and...

13 April 2009
03:07 GMT

Jailbreaking Is Illegal, Apple Says

A legal representative from the EFF, going by the name of Fred von Lohmann, says that Apple has filed new comments with the Copyright Office as part of the 2009 DMCA, stating that jailbreaking your iPhone and iPod constitutes copyright infringement and a DMCA violation.9to5Mac quotes the EFF as saying that “App...

16 February 2009
03:15 GMT

iLife '09 Pirated by Over 20,000 Users

Softpedia has learned that iLife '09 has been pirated by 20,000 + users who are currently using file sharing web sites to illegally download the newly updated software. iLife '09 brings major updates to iPhoto, iVideo and GarageBand. The suite normally retails for $79.Following Apple's Macworld 2009 ke...

28 January 2009
05:42 GMT

Greenpeace Activist Proved to Be a Police Informer

Rob Gilchrist, a member of Greenpeace, has been working for the New Zealand police department since 1998, supplying them with data about environmental groups such as GP, Peace Action Wellington and the Vegan Balaclava Pixies, as well as anti-Iraq War groups, civil rights groups and other such organizations. His girlf...

15 December 2008
05:30 GMT

Apple, Prepare to Get Hacked

Norwegian hacker DVD Jon is looking at a good deal of trouble, Apple's lawyers say, as he has released yet another by-passing program, this time enabling iPod owners to copy media by dragging-and-dropping files into a folder on their desktop. Mr. Johansen (24) is famous for developing the first program which att...

7 April 2008
17:06 GMT

The Big Hit: Xbox and PlayStation 2 Consoles Filled with £12,000

Don't get too excited and don't start searching inside your gaming console just yet - it's not like a dream come true or something similar, it's more like the biggest nightmare. Because this discovery comes hand in hand with the word "illegal". And when The Entertainment & Leisure Software Publis...

28 January 2008
10:00 GMT

Assassin's Creed Leaked on Torrent Sites

The most wanted game of the holiday season is surely Assassin's Creed and now it's available, but not for us legit gamers, as it's been leaked online. I'm betting that the people over at Ubisoft are investigating the source of the leak right now, but even if the guilty employee gets fired, the com...

12 November 2007
09:40 GMT

Dragon Ball Z: Budokai Tenkaichi 3 and WWE SmackDown! vs. RAW 2008 Leaked on Torrent Sites

Since Manhunt 2 is finally out, it can't be plagued by piracy issues any more, although we know it as the title that suffered the most from its Internet leak. It's one thing when your blockbuster game gets ripped open and made available for free illegal download a day before its official launch and a total...

9 November 2007
04:26 GMT

Social Network Hazard

MySpace, one of the most popular social network web sites today, has yet again been asked to better protect its users against all kinds of possible illegal activities that might occur on the site. The most recent event concerning this kind of illegal activities has been the commercialization of steroids through the u...

30 September 2007
16:09 GMT

Get Busted in 3 Easy Steps

Making money on the web is an easy thing. The best part about it is that you don't even have to leave the comfort of your home, like the rest of us that go to work. Basically, there are two ways in which you can make money on the web: legal and illegal. Of course, the illegal way will put you into jail nice and ...

14 September 2007
04:44 GMT

P2P Has Just Become Illegal

Sharing is deemed to be equal to distribution when it comes to copyrighted files. This is very exact actually - why would you want to share something, if you didn't want other people to get it from you? No, you don't actually force people to download it and neither do distributors, so sharing copyrighted fi...

3 September 2007
10:01 GMT

Illegal Gmail Activities? Not Allowed, Duh!

Although it's no big deal, I want you to stay on the safe side: avoid doing illegal Gmail activities because you might get your account banned. For example, it was reported that some of the users are selling the Gmail invites even if there is no reason to do this anymore. However, in the past, when Gmail was onl...

3 September 2007
09:14 GMT

Torrents Going Down? No way!

Oh, boy, torrents infringing copyright laws - isn't that a surprise? Not! Same thing as always, just with another name. I don't get it. Don't these guys get sick of it? Everyone knows that torrents are used to illegally download stuff! Nobody uses them to get open software, because you can get that fro...

28 August 2007
08:11 GMT

Security Software Deemed Illegal

Spector, a well known program designed by SpectotSoft for Internet surveillance, has been the tool of cyberspying, that later on led to violence between the spy and its target.Many users have been said to have bought this program (close to half a million) as SpectorSoft officials declared to NetworkWorld, from which ...

17 August 2007
05:16 GMT

Pirated Music? Not Anymore!

The international music authorities finally managed to close a Russian-based website that distributed pirated music on the Internet. Actually, the owners of the website sustained the page was legal as they were paying royalties to ROMS, a Russian organization that works closely to copyright owners. According to MSNBC...

5 July 2007
04:31 GMT

AMD Claims INTEL Uses "Illegal Tactics"

And I'm not talking about Christmas. When I say that, I actually mean it's time for a new AMD vs. INTEL chickfight. And this time it's a perfect moment for AMD's CEO Hector Ruiz to take the center stage at the American Antitrust Institute National Conference in Washington, D.C. A good place to tel...

26 June 2007
12:16 GMT

Illegal Imports Make Most of the Mobile Phone Sales Market

An average number of 70 percent of all mobile phones have been illegally imported or are actually counterfeit products. State management agencies have drawn attention on this problem and the toll it's taking on the telecommunications industry. The darker, illegal side of the mobile phone industry seems to bring ...

25 June 2007
10:33 GMT

I Don't Want Porn Anymore!

Pornography is definitely a problem for most of the Internet users because the adult content is continuously invading our computer using several ways: email, file sharing applications and, very often, malicious webpages. According to a recent research conducted by PixAlert 25.8 percent of 10.000 computers contained a...

17 April 2007
09:13 GMT

Guitar Hero II 360 - Illegal?

It wasn't long for something like this to emerge. After all, the world is boring as it is, so someone had to spice up the atmosphere. A recent article of jonahfalcon at Game Stooge, hints at the idea that Guitar Hero II obliges players to unlock certain songs, considered elusive ones, making it an illegal practi...

6 April 2007
03:29 GMT


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