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The Japanese parliament enacted new legislation that makes malware development a crime punishable by up to three years in prison.Up until now, malware writers could be prosecuted only on destruction of property charges if their creations actually caused damage.Under the revised provisions of the Penal Code adopted wi... |
17 June 2011
12:21 GMT |
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A software and video games pirate has just been sentenced to 2 and a half years in federal prison, as well as forced to pay over $360,000 as forfeiture for his actions by a court in Ohio.
It seems that Qiang "Michael" Bi, a 36 year old resident of Powell, Ohio, was the mastermind of a serious games and software pi... |
30 December 2010
17:21 GMT |
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It seems that Call of Duty: Black Ops is enough of a reason to commit armed robbery, as two thieves with semiautomatic weapons held up a local GameStop store and stole 100 copies of Call of Duty: Black Ops.Activision's upcoming shooter, Call of Duty: Black Ops, is set to be one of the best selling games of all t... |
8 November 2010
17:21 GMT |
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Swans may be some of the most graceful and beautiful birds on the planet. But something that Tchaikovsky and his Swan Lake never warned us about was just how vicious and brutal these creatures could be when they had had too much to drink and they were playing World of Warcraft. One such Swan, named James, was trying ... |
18 February 2010
06:43 GMT |
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School shootings are a very delicate subject in North America, so it's no wonder that authorities respond to even the slightest hint of trouble. While playing an unmentioned game over Xbox Live on February 4 with five other teammates, a Port Alberni, British Columbia gamer was alarmed by the threats made by one ... |
15 February 2010
07:38 GMT |
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A gamer's console or PC is their bread and butter, his or her raison d'être and it is no surprise that one would go to extreme lengths to protect their lifestyle. If one paired this with the rather inaccurate reputation video gamers have earned, of being antisocial and violent people, one might think ... |
29 January 2010
04:46 GMT |
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Ever since the game was announced in 2006, Rockstar hasn't worked very much on Team Bondi's L.A. Noire. In three years no real information has emerged regarding the game and most of the people for whom the game stood out when it was announced have forgotten this title. And even if they haven't, they�... |
30 September 2009
03:13 GMT |
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Like a Swiss clock, Sega announced a new addition to the Yakuza franchise at every Tokyo Games Show edition, for the past few years. This year makes no difference, and series creator Toshihiro Nagoshi took the floor to give to the world Ryu Ga Gotoku 4: Densetu wo Tsugu Mono. The rough, if not very rough English tran... |
28 September 2009
09:01 GMT |
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A man accused of bank robbery was arrested by the authorities after he posted a message on MySpace boasting the crime, a press release from the U.S. Department of Justice in Columbia, S.C. states. Crime and stupidity go hand in hand but this time it took a more web 2.0 approach. The man, Joseph Northington, aged 27, ... |
30 May 2009
04:54 GMT |
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Gamers can be found everywhere and almost anywhere around the world. Even though most of them can be found on a comfy sofa in their living room or at a desk while playing their favorite titles on their platforms of choice, we can also find them in prisons, as criminals who have nothing better to do. But even though ... |
14 May 2009
15:01 GMT |
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A couple of days ago, one man became an Internet sensation as his story was picked by several media outlets and presented to the world. He is 21, has a slender body frame, and no physical training, yet goes by the name of Shadow Hare, puts on a mask and roams the streets of Cincinnati at night, fighting crime. As TMZ... |
4 May 2009
06:45 GMT |
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Most boys grow up dreaming to be superheroes, but one man from Cincinnati, Ohio actually gets to be one in real life as well. The unnamed 21-year-old though is fighting at a disadvantage since he neither has super powers nor gadgets that could possibly help him in a fight where he’s outnumbered. What he has, in... |
29 April 2009
10:31 GMT |
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A couple found dead in a car and no apparent cause of death are the main “headlines” of a new website, set up as part of her doctoral project by Royal Melbourne Institute of Technology professor Rebecca Young. This isn't just any killing, but one rooted in mystery and dating back from the Cold War. I... |
19 March 2009
16:01 GMT |
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We've talked quite a lot about the console war and how each of the three manufacturers, Nintendo, Microsoft, and Sony, are fighting for the top spot in terms of sales, and by doing so make the products more and more attractive to the average customer, but the big sales and popularity that these devices have been... |
21 January 2009
15:01 GMT |
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They do say that nothing should stand between a man and his beer, wife or life partner included, but, this time, one Greenfield man took the saying a little too to heart. Yahoo! News is reporting that the man has been arrested for trying to sell his 14-year-old daughter for 100 cases of beer, $16,000 in cash and a fe... |
13 January 2009
05:58 GMT |
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In their strive to curb crimes, suicides and other misdemeanors, police departments from England and Japan have employed blue lighting in some of their worst-famed neighborhoods, as studies show that the color has a calming effect on people, who feel a bit uneasy by the unusual choice of lights and feel like they sho... |
11 December 2008
06:26 GMT |
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China has been, in recent months, home to a very unusual phenomenon, the appearance of on-line human flesh search engines, where people accused of various wrongdoings are listed, alongside their telephone number, national ID number and full address. The emergence of these engines was prompted by a Chinese woman, who ... |
26 November 2008
03:54 GMT |
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Various news outlets are reporting that a Japanese woman, aged 43, has “killed” her husband. The good news is that she only did it online, in the virtual world of Maple Story. The bad news is that the woman has been now arrested by the police, being charged with hacking and other illegal activities.The wo... |
24 October 2008
20:01 GMT |
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You hear every day about the increasing obesity rate in US and its accompanying metabolic syndromes (from heart disease to diabetes), which has turned into the first cause of death in the country. Heart disease is the first cause of death amongst Americans, while diabetes, the fourth (the second cause is smoking and ... |
12 April 2008
03:58 GMT |
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Most of the DS games I've seen look like poor old cartoons for youngsters - and that is one of the reasons I'm not a huge fan of the portable console. However, I will never try to say that its (still) innovative two-screen format is anything sort of magic. Basically, there are so many revolutionary things t... |
10 March 2008
04:08 GMT |
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Could it just be that Apple's releasing two new models of its iPod player three years ago has somehow triggered an increase in the U.S. crime rate? Even though Apple is just one of the companies rolling out new goods during that period, researchers believe the iPod alone is responsible for a 50 percent (or highe... |
5 March 2008
09:07 GMT |
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There are moments when even the calmest of the calm lose their minds for a second while playing video games, when the power goes off and all your unsaved game progress is lost. Things happen, people get mad, but usually the situation is still under control. This situation right here is not the same, this one is crazy... |
11 January 2008
05:40 GMT |
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It's not a sort of Bat-signal that the Police see blinking on their patrol car GPS, so that they know where they are needed, it's more of a Public Relations tool that will make the people living in certain neighborhoods know all about what has happened there, regarding safety and the way the police dealt wi... |
20 December 2007
16:06 GMT |
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Players will join Gil Grissom, Catherine Willows and the rest of the Las Vegas cast to help solve crimes using realistic techniques and lab equipment. Utilizing all-new gameplay concepts, CSI: Dark Motives features forensic reconstructions and atmospheric crime scenes taken directly from the television show, includin... |
11 December 2007
10:06 GMT |
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48-year-old Thomas Montgomery will spend his next 20 years in prison, after he pleaded, in August, guilty of murdering his 22-year-old colleague, Brian Barrett, out of jealousy. At least, this is what the investigators told AP. But here's the entire and complicated story: Thomas Montgomery (the killer), who wa... |
29 November 2007
02:58 GMT |
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I just can't believe it! More and more old people are resorting to cyber-crime! I don't get it - aren't they fearing that jail at their age might just kill them? I don't know what they're thinking! Furthermore, this is the case of a 60-year-old policeman that committed computer-crime and now ... |
11 October 2007
04:12 GMT |
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RIM might not know it, but its BlackBerry smartphones make excellent solutions for criminals in British Columbia. The devices manage to bring such a high security level that its owner can be almost sure that nobody will have access on his personal files, or on the dirty business that he is handling.The BlackBerry ser... |
10 October 2007
04:17 GMT |
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I heard many people saying that anything is possible in the United States but until now, I never thought of that. Well, it seems like this phrase is somehow true as a Pennsylvania resident is suing Google for... crimes against humanity. Silly or not, the man demands $5 billion in damages because "its name turns up wh... |
21 September 2007
06:40 GMT |
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It has been recently reported that some British police departments have taken measures to schedule extra officers on nights with a full moon. This decision was made not because of werewolves or vampires, but due to a supposed connection between full moon nights and more earthy dirty businesses like increased activity... |
14 June 2007
11:31 GMT |
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Numerous clips showing crimes and car thieves were posted on the famous online video sharing service YouTube. Although the video product prohibits this kind of videos, several movies appeared on YouTube and attracted a considerable number of viewers. According to BBC News, one of the clips is recorded in Cardiff and ... |
8 May 2007
09:51 GMT |
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There is a normal natural sex ratio slightly biased in favor of the boys: 103-106 male newborns to 100 female newborns in all human populations. But researchers have noticed that at about 20 years old, this ratio can be 100:100, as male babies are more vulnerable to diseases and have a higher mortality rate. But the ... |
19 April 2007
05:18 GMT |
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Hands-On Mobile, one of the leading global publishers of mobile games, lifestyle and personalization products, recently announced that it will bring the urban crime drama by Activision, True Crime: New York City, to mobile phones worldwide. Players of True Crime: New York City will take on the seedy underworld of the... |
22 March 2007
06:26 GMT |
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True Crime: Streets of L.A., the Luxoflux-developed Activision title that looks set to knock the much-admired-but-aging GTA franchise from the open-ended console gaming throne, is fast approaching release, and the game keeps looking better and better. I recently had a chance to sit down and explore the city of Los An... |
19 March 2007
07:46 GMT |
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