Every time you turn around some movie exec or entertainment lobbyist is proclaiming how all the talk of free and evil people downloading illegal copies of movies is killing the movie business.
Yet it seems that just as quickly ...
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Last week, Microsoft started rocking its banhammer in a big way, permanently banning 1 million Xbox Live users from the online gaming service for playing on a modded Xbox 360. But was Microsoft's choice to ban 5% ...
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Cries of frustration, anger and grief rose up from parents' basements across the land as a million Xbox Live players found themselves cut off from the service in an anti-piracy blitz by Microsoft.
Microsoft describes the number of ...
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While it may be a long time before we see this type of thing happen in the US and Canada the people of Denmark can look forward to one less anti-piracy agency trying to sue everyone in ...
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For those who might not know who Tucker Max is here’s a little background. Tucker is a 34 year old who has fame and fortune by recounting tales of his real-life drunken antics and ...
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There’s a number of great posts today about the whole music piracy nonsense. However none come close to show the hypocrisy of the music business’s so-called war against piracy than the whole Lily Allen ...
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Don't think you'll have to pull away from your monitor and Cheetos to celebrate International Talk Like a Pirate Day. Blizzard has announced that World of Warcraft will have its very own celebration of the special day, ...
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Ahoy, me hearties, etc. In case you weren't aware, September 19th is International Talk Like a Pirate Day. Celebrated since 1995, I've already lived through enough ITLaPDs to find the whole affair rather tedious and memesy.
On the ...
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Holy anti-piracy measures, Robin! Batman: Arkham Asylum is out on the PC later this month, and will include some interesting copy protection measures, if the experiences of an early pirate are anything to go by.
Eidos forum member ...
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Mega-publisher Ubisoft has delivered its latest sales report for the fiscal first quarter of 2009-10 (that's April through June), revealing a hefty loss: they're down by slightly over 50% on the same period a year ago, to ...
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Just last week I posted about the second largest aquarium in the world and how cool it was. Well it turns out that the song by Barcelona used in the video had been pirated. ...
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The music industry in general likes to paint all young music listeners as nothing more than downloading pirates out to destroy the music business as we know it. They have been labeled as the ...
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