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Nicholas Sarkozy, the president of France and one of the most powerful men of Europe, was busted today after journalists from a French news site, armed with Élysée Palace IPs, took a peak to see what has been downloaded from the president’s residence. If the three-strike piracy law adopted by Fr... |
15 December 2011
11:02 GMT |
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The recently released website, Youhavedownloaded.com, turned out to be a great opportunity for piracy supporters to prove that even those who fight long and expensive battles against copyright infringers don’t always obey the rules they make.
After obtaining the IP-ranges of some major Hollywood studios, the g... |
14 December 2011
08:39 GMT |
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A newly released Russian website makes sure that all the individuals who download from BitTorrent website are monitored, their identities, or at least their IP’s being published online for anyone to see, along with the actual files they have downloaded.
YouHaveDownloaded.com is a site that monitors 20% of all ... |
14 December 2011
03:25 GMT |
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Martin S., a 27-year-old man, the one considered to be the “main admin” of the defunct Kino.to movie streaming portal, was sentenced to 3 years in jail, the authorities confiscating his house, a car and bank accounts.
Many individuals were arrested, some of which were already imprisoned, for running the ... |
12 December 2011
07:50 GMT |
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The controversial case in which the owners of the popular hip-hop blog DaJaz1 got back their domain from the authorities without any explanation attracted the attention of a US senator who wants answers from the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) on why the process was handled in such a clumsy manner.
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10 December 2011
06:22 GMT |
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After seizing a number of sites that were considered to be run by copyright infringers over a year ago, the authorities returned one of the domains to its rightful owner without any explanation.According to TorrentFreak, most of the domains confiscated at the time were hip-hop blogs, among which the popular Dajaz1.co... |
9 December 2011
11:17 GMT |
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While other companies decide to cripple their PC games with obnoxious DRM (Digital Rights Management) software to prevent piracy, developer Croteam and publisher Devolver Digital decided to add a special kind of anti-piracy method in their recent Serious Sam 3: BFE, in the form of an unbeatable giant red scorpio... |
9 December 2011
05:11 GMT |
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Law enforcement officials from Germany, Switzerland and Hungary raided a few locations that they believed to belong to a couple of piracy groups that were known to leak as many as 2,600 motion pictures, some of which even before they were officially released.
CRUCiAL and iNSPiRED are the gangs targeted by the intern... |
8 December 2011
10:25 GMT |
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After a Russian news agency informed the world on the fact that Kaspersky is about to withdraw its membership from Business Software Alliance (BSA), Eugene Kaspersky, the man behind the renowned security solutions provider, came forward with a statement confirming the fact that his company doesn’t approve of th... |
7 December 2011
02:38 GMT |
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After being accused of copyright infringement by book publishers Elsevier and John Wiley & Sons, Chitika and Clicksor ad networks, that offered services to a site that displayed links to pirated e-books, were found not guilty by a United States District Judge. The whole issue started after the advertising networks w... |
6 December 2011
15:01 GMT |
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Hardware maker and video game publisher Sony Computer Entertainment has said that the proprietary memory cards that will be sold for the upcoming PlayStation Vita handheld are designed as a means to eliminate any potential for piracy on the device.Muneki Shimada, who is one of the developers working on the new hardwa... |
5 December 2011
16:41 GMT |
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Kaspersky, the world renowned security solutions provider, decided to break the partnership it had with Business Software Alliance (BSA) after the latter indicated its support for the controversial Stop Online Piracy Act (SOPA).
According to TorrentFreak, BSA showed some concerns regarding SOPA, but that might only ... |
5 December 2011
08:42 GMT |
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Operation In Our Sites, launched by the Department of Homeland Security’s ICE unit, continues with the seizure of 11 Korean domain names that were allegedly related to movie piracy. According to TorrentFreak, the Department of Justice and the Immigrations and Customs Enforcement seized the domains as a result ... |
5 December 2011
05:33 GMT |
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Since the downloading of copyrighted content is an issue that puts pressure on governments worldwide, Swiss authorities decided to conduct a study to see if they should declare the phenomenon illegal. The results of the research revealed that there’s no need for such legislation since copyright holders are not ... |
2 December 2011
09:31 GMT |
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CD Projekt Red, the developer of The Witcher series, has just added its voice to the ongoing piracy debate that’s been rekindled recently, and says that developers and publishers should just forget about using harsh DRM (Digital Rights Management) software, as it’s going to be hacked in no time and just e... |
2 December 2011
03:14 GMT |
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Good Old Games, the digital distribution service focused on selling classic titles without any sort of DRM and with extra features, believes other game publishers need to stop believing that DRM (Digital Rights Management) systems will stop people from pirating their games, and just try to pack in more value into the... |
1 December 2011
03:12 GMT |
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The Witcher 2: Assassins of Kings might have been one of the most high profile launches exclusive to the PC this year but it seems that with popularity also comes great loss, because the developers estimate that more than 4.5 million people pirated the game.Marcin Iwinski, who is the Chief Executive Officer at CD Pro... |
30 November 2011
05:01 GMT |
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Piracy might be a big problem on the PC platform but the creators of the Serious Sam 3 first person shooter believe that the way to fight it is not with Digital Right Management measures but with very good gameplay.Fork Parker, who is the Chief Financial Officer working at Devolver Digital, told Destructoid that, &ld... |
29 November 2011
20:11 GMT |
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Hadopi, the French anti-piracy organization that was put in charge with handling the now famous three-strike law, is determined to attack piracy from another angle. More precisely, they want to go after the means utilized by illegal file-sharing websites and cyberlockers to fund their operations.
According to Torren... |
29 November 2011
15:31 GMT |
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Steam is the biggest player in the digital distribution market on the PC and it seems that the quality of service that has brought it to the fore of the pack also allows it to dismiss any real threat from the piracy phenomenon.
Speaking to The Cambridge Student, Gabe Newell, who is the leader of Valve, stated, &ldqu... |
29 November 2011
02:31 GMT |
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Last week Ubisoft Shanghai’s creative director, Stanislas Mettra, made some pretty harsh accusations against PC gamers and the ongoing piracy problem on that platform, but has now said that his words seemed a bit hard because English isn’t his native language.I Am Alive was resurrected by the team at Ubis... |
28 November 2011
15:51 GMT |
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Five of Australia’s largest Internet service providers, members of the Communications Alliance, revealed their anti-piracy plans which seem to replicate the three-strike law already implemented by other countries.Telstra Bigpond, iiNet, Optus, iPrimus and Internode plan on fully collaborating with copyright hol... |
28 November 2011
14:21 GMT |
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The International Federation of the Phonographic Industry (IFPI) and the Copyright Information and Anti-Piracy Center (CIAPC) filed a new lawsuit against The Pirate Bay’s administrators, demanding two more ISP blockades in Finland and compensation fees.
According to TorrentFreak, the Helsinki District Court w... |
28 November 2011
10:36 GMT |
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Piracy on the PC platform has once again become a talked about topic, thanks to inflammatory comments from Ubisoft, but Good Old Games’ Trevor Longino believes the industry can learn a lot from the mechanics of PC games piracy and from pirates themselves.Ubisoft once again baited PC gamers with some harsh comme... |
28 November 2011
04:08 GMT |
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United Arab Emirates authorities arrested a hacker after discovering that he hacked Xbox 360 consoles so they could be used to play pirated games.
According to ITP, he even set up a website on which he was offering pirated games but also his services as a professional console cracker, this being one of the clues tha... |
25 November 2011
04:33 GMT |
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Ubisoft has once again talked about the state of PC gaming and how the rampant piracy is seriously affecting the chances of seeing some of its new titles, like I Am Alive arrive on that platform.PC gaming has seen lots of growth in recent years due to the popularity of digital distribution services like Valve’s... |
24 November 2011
17:21 GMT |
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The European Court of Justice has put an end to a 7-year battle between an ISP and a music rights group, setting a precedent for cases where internet service providers are forced to spy on their account holders.
According to TorrentFreak, the Belgian music rights group SABAM was trying to make ISP Scarlet stalk thei... |
24 November 2011
10:36 GMT |
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Earlier this year, in an effort to appease copyright holders, mostly the music industry, Google started to apply some self-censorship to its searches. It started removing suggestions and auto-complete for things like "bittorrent," "torrent," "rapidshare" and so on.
The ham-fisted approach didn't really do much ... |
24 November 2011
07:11 GMT |
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Last week, the police detained a 19-year-old law student after the anti-piracy group RettighedsAlliancen informed them that he was running a blog in which he allegedly educated users on how to break copyright laws.
Furthermore, according to TorrentFreak, they also suspected him of being the mastermind behind a mass... |
22 November 2011
04:35 GMT |
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Bohemia Interactive, the company behind the ArmA series of realistic military shooters and the recent Take On Helicopters, says that for every player who purchases a legitimate copy of its video games around 33 others pirate them.Marek Španěl, who is the Chief Executive Officer at Bohemia Interactive, told PC ... |
18 November 2011
20:01 GMT |
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A department of the Italian Minister of Economy and Finance called Guardia di Finanza (Financial Guard), which also handles cybercrime, pulled the plug on five illegal websites owned by a Naples man.
According to TorrentFreak, ItalianShare, MusicShare, FilmShare and ItalianSexy were all hosted in Las Vegas and they ... |
11 November 2011
08:13 GMT |
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Piracy is always a big problem when it comes to PC gaming but the Czech developers working at Bohemia Interactive say that they have been well served by their FADE system and that they will be focusing on it in the future.FADE, which has been in use since the launch of Operation Flashpoint: Cold War Crisis, about 10 ... |
10 November 2011
12:31 GMT |
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Satisfied, or not, with their work against BitTorrent piracy, well, against BitTorrent in general, the media companies have moved on to a new target, Usenet sites that, more often than not, host or link to pirated content.Already, anti-piracy groups are scoring some victories, some more shallow than others. For examp... |
7 November 2011
12:01 GMT |
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A well known hacker group has released a cracked version of Battlefield 3, the latest first person shooter from developer DICE and publisher Electronic Arts, which does not need to use the Origin service in order to work.The well known pirate collective known as Razor 1911 has managed to get into the executable and s... |
2 November 2011
05:24 GMT |
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UPDATE: Twitter user Pressmantrev told us the Xbox 360 version of Modern Warfare 3 is also in the wild, besides the PC or PlayStation 3 editions.While Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 3 is scheduled to appear on November 8, it seems that some gamers are already enjoying a leaked version of it, as a new report says t... |
28 October 2011
06:34 GMT |
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Video game developer and Steam creator Valve has again talked about piracy and how the only way to reduce its impact is to deliver an experience that the illegal copies of video games cannot match up to.This means that digital distribution can reach and turn a profit even in those countries that are traditionally ign... |
25 October 2011
15:01 GMT |
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Natalia Lopukhovs and her husband Andrew face a trial in which media industry representatives claim they've lost $1.25 billion (875 million EUR) because of the Interfilm torrent tracker the pair administrated a few years ago.
After fueling the pirate underground with the latest movie releases, in April 2007 aut... |
25 October 2011
08:30 GMT |
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Good Old Games might not be the biggest players in the digital distribution space but one of its executives says that it's main competition is not from Valve's Steam but from the piracy driven black market.Speaking to MCV Guillaume Rambourg, who is the managing director working at Good Old Games, has stated... |
24 October 2011
13:41 GMT |
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Even if Battlefield 3 is set to be released next week, video game pirates can already enjoy the new first person shooter as it was leaked at the beginning of the week on various Bittorrent websites.Battlefield 3 is definitely one of the most anticipated games of the year, especially after the recent multiplayer open ... |
18 October 2011
13:31 GMT |
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A Stockholm court sentenced Gottfrid Svartholm, Pirate Bay co-founder, to one year in prison after he missed out on his appeal trial. He will also have to pay a fine of $1.1 million (770,000 EUR).
According to Torrent Freak, the one known on the internet as Anakata, has missed out on the appeal trial last year bec... |
14 October 2011
09:41 GMT |
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Western developers seem to no longer be the only ones who are interested in creating ever more capable DRM solutions in order to protect their video games from piracy, with the creators of S.T.A.L.K.E.R. 2 announcing that the game will require a constant connection to the Internet in order to be played.The developers... |
10 October 2011
08:20 GMT |
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A French court has ruled for Nintendo in a lawsuit against six companies that were accused of selling flash cards for the DS line of handhelds, saying that they were guilty and needed to pay more than 460,000 Euro in criminal fines and 4.8 million Euro in damages to the Japanese company (which is a little over 690,00... |
6 October 2011
13:31 GMT |
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A statement from video game publisher SEGA has suggested that if just one quarter of those who pirate the Football Manager series could be persuaded to pay for the game then sales of the 2012 installment of the game would double.The claim came as part of the company's response to the way the fan base of the foot... |
28 September 2011
16:41 GMT |
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A brand new Xbox 360 hack has surfaced on the web, enabling the console to run any sort of software besides that which is signed by Microsoft, like unsigned homebrew programs, and, as opposed to the existing hacking methods, works on any type of Xbox 360 models, including the new Slim ones.
Microsoft's Xbox 3... |
30 August 2011
02:30 GMT |
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Video game publisher Ubisoft has announced that it will be launching a patch, which is already being worked on, that will allow gamers to play the PC version of From Dust without being connected to the Internet, eliminating the controversial DRM measures that have been integrated into the game.
A post on the offic... |
23 August 2011
04:21 GMT |
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Gears of War 3, the third-person shooter from Epic Games that will arrive this year exclusively on the Xbox 360, is one of the biggest launches of the year, but some of the surprises in the game have already been revealed via a leaked game build that was at one point widely available on torrents. Executive producer ... |
3 August 2011
15:51 GMT |
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Blizzard has revealed that any player who is interested in playing the upcoming Diablo III will have to be constantly logged into the Battle.net service and maintain a continuous Internet connection.The company says that this is necessary because Diablo III is deeply integrated with Battle.net and Blizzard is very ca... |
1 August 2011
10:56 GMT |
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Christmas has come early for video game pirates, as an early build of Gears of War 3 has been leaked onto bittorrent sites over the weekend, for the Xbox 360 platform, months before its scheduled release this September.
Gears of War 3 is set to end the trilogy of third-person shooters made by Epic Games that appea... |
4 July 2011
04:40 GMT |
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The fight against online piracy, at the expense of personal freedoms, continues unabashed. The Motion Picture Association, a trade-group representing major Hollywood studios, is trying to make 'history' by asking the British High Court to force BT, the largest ISP in the UK, to block a website it says is a ... |
27 June 2011
11:41 GMT |
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Despite Sony's legal threats, the PS3 hacking community is as active as ever, their latest accomplishment being a method of enabling a special flag that allows unsigned apps and unlicensed content to run on the console.Rumors of a powerful "QA flag" has been floating around the community since a month ago when a... |
22 June 2011
10:09 GMT |
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