Infinity Ward Amazed by Rampant PC Piracy
Call of Duty 4: Modern Warfare (PC, PS3, X360) developer Infinity Ward was shocked to discover an unexpectedly high level of piracy in regards to...
READ MORE >Chinese Piracy Declines As Worldwide Losses Grow
According to a new report by the Business Software Alliance, the rate of Chinese piracy has seen a decrease of 10% over the past three years, while...
READ MORE >"I wonder what would had happened had it not been a blind subject experiment, with the users ..."
see all 27 commentsid and Epic: Multiplatform because of piracy
Across two separate lectures at this week's Game Developers Conference, id Software CEO Todd Hollenshead and Epic Games president Michael Capps...
READ MORE >"It's all BS, Don't think for one minute consoles are piracy free, In fact, I'm willing to bet ..."
see all 1339 commentsIntroversion's Approach to Piracy
This week GamesIndustry.biz released an interesting interview with Introversion's Tom Arundel. Introversion is the studio behind Uplink and...
READ MORE >"Exactly...this approach isn't hurting me (unlike say...Sony's rootkit which has the potential to ..."
see all 75 commentsRitual's Mike Russell on Piracy
This weekend, Michael Russell of Ritual Entertainment made a sobering post on his personal blog about the costs of piracy to a small developer....
READ MORE >"A copyright is the exclusive right to copy a work. If I copy a work without having that right, ..."
see all 657 commentsPiracy Checks At LAN Parties?
Well Zoid stumbled upon this story about a LAN party in Denmark that was busted for software piracy by an anti-piracy group. Now, while this did...
READ MORE >" q-ball, so? i'm just another tech. does the fact that working at best buy make me an idiot? ..."
see all 356 commentsWindows XP & Piracy
Looks like MS is going to be making some changes to the anti-piracy stuff because of XP's not-so-willingness to get along with hardware upgrades.
READ MORE >" The default Nvidia drivers for XP don't have openGL, but if you download the latest drivers ..."
see all 18 commentsSoftware Piracy Numbers
CNN has a story with numbers on software piracy. According to a recent study 37% of software worldwide has been pirated, making for lost revenue of...
READ MORE >" well, You don't exactly "pirate" a programming language. They bought DOS. And yes, they ..."
see all 191 commentsAOL Found Guilty of Piracy
Well isnt this something else. Late yesterday AOL was found guilty in court of piracy. AOL by allowing people to trade files through their service...
READ MORE >Codemasters Anti-Piracy Way
GA-Source is reporting on a new anti-piracy scheme by Codemasters. Instead of some cd-key the game will kill the gameplay up to a point where the...
READ MORE >Whistler Anti-piracy
Looks like Microsoft is finally going to do something about the massive warezing of their operating systems, as Wininformant has a story about the...
READ MORE >"They are not even sure if they are going to do it at this point."
see all 321 commentsSoftware Piracy Article
3DActionPlanet has an editorial on the topic that never dies, software piracy. Nearly every person I know who owns a computer has done it at least...
READ MORE >" You're hijacking international oil shipments using a Yacht??? "
see all 17 commentsOn Q3 Piracy
Graeme Devine has another new .plan update with word that the new and final Quake3 playable demo will be available some time today. He also talks a...
READ MORE >"# 139 good point...I was just assuming that q3 was going to be 50.00 bucks. but after seeing its ..."
see all 140 commentsMS Piracy
A little news article on the SFGate to amuse yourself at the expense of Microsoft for you guys. Check out the SFTreasure Hunt. I certainly dont...
READ MORE >"#51, man that is a site I never needed to see again. Do you have any idea how long it took me ..."
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"Some games are 'Blockbusters', and I usually buy those to support my local multi-billion dollar ..."
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