Entries in 'pirate' (25)
Halo Reach hits file-sharing sites
Full versions of Microsoft’s Xbox 360 shooter Halo Reach have arrived on internet file-sharing sites.
Rugby star jailed for DS eBay scam
A British sports star has become possibly the highest profile name ever to be jailed for the piracy of video games.
Now Sony joins pre-owned offensive
Echoing the controversial measures announced by Ubisoft last month, Sony has revealed that users of SOCOM: US Navy SEALs Fireteam Bravo 3 will need to register their game online before ...
Pirate Bay founder in new venture
One of the founders of controversial BitTorrent tracker The Pirate Bay has lifted the lid on a brand new venture named Flattr that hopes to make money for a wide ...
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Hacker releases PS3 exploit
PS3’s days as a piracy-free platform are under threat with the news that famed hacker George Hotz has publicly released the details of the exploit he uncovered over the weekend.
PS3 hack claims gather pace
A hacker who made his name by being the first to break Apple’s iPhone 3.0 firmware is claiming to have been the first to hack Sony’s until-now piracy free PS3.
More trouble for Pirate Bay
Five months after Swedish courts ordered the closure of BitTorrent tracking site The Pirate Bay, four of the world’s largest music labels have requested the District Court fines the site’s ...
Pirates "spend more on content"
In what will surely encourage the self-validating conscience of illicit file-sharers, a new study has concluded that people who pirate digital content end up spending more on it than those ...
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JAPAN: DS pirate jailed
Hot on the heels of Nintendo releasing a brand new piracy-fighting patch for its DSi console, Nintendo’s anti-piracy efforts have been further bolstered by the successful prosecution of a high-profile ...
Dutch court orders Pirate Bay blockage
The Pirate Bay’s seemingly inevitable demise has been brought a step closer today with news that a Dutch court has ordered the portal to block access to users from the ...
Buyout sets Pirate Bay on the road to legality
Whether or not the previous owners of Swedish file-sharing portal The Pirate Bay succeed in over-turning their prosecution in the increasingly protracted legal saga, it seems that The Pirate Bay ...
US: File-sharing mum fined $2m
A 32-year-old single mum has been ordered by a Minneapolis court to pay $1.92m to the Recording Industry Association of America after being found guilty of breaching the copyright of ...
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Pirate Party wins Swedish EU seat
Controversial political body The Pirate Party has won a seat in the European parliament after capitalising on the pro-Pirate Bay movement in homeland Sweden.
Piracy has already cost Sims 3 $9m
The party that’s sure to follow EA’s release of The Sims 3 next week is likely to be a little subdued thanks to the news that the game is being ...
Second judge removed from Pirate Bay case
The soap-opera like narrative of the ongoing Pirate Bay prosecution in Sweden has taken another unexpected turn with the news that a second judge has been thrown off the case ...
Crytek: Pirate Bay prosecution ‘a step forward’
Cevat Yerli, the CEO of German games developer Crytek, has admitted that he hopes the recent prosecution of the four owners of BotTorrrent site Pirate Bay could mark a ‘mental ...
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Pirate Bay owners could face re-trial
Just days after a Swedish Court sentenced the four owners of BitTorrent site The Pirate Bay to jail, allegations have surfaced that could see the case returned to trial, ...
Pirate Bay ruling will 'warn mainstream off BitTorrent'
Miles Jacobson, studio director at Sports Interactive, has told Develop he believes that this morning's Pirate Bay ruling is likely to put off mainstream consumers from obtaining Copyrighted software from ...
Pirate Bay sails onto Facebook
Whilst the three men behind BitTorrent portal Pirate Bay are still awaiting the final decision in their Swedish court case, the site itself continues to expand with the launch ...
Pirate Bay lawyers make their final case
The Swedish prosecution of the owners of BitTorrent site Pirate Bay has ended with the site’s defence lawyers arguing that the four accused cannot be held accountable for the conduct ...
Pirate Bay prosecutors call for jail term
As the trial of the owners of BitTorrent site The Pirate Bay enters its third week, prosecutors have called for a one-year jail term to be imposed on the ...
Pirate Bay case could swing piracy battle
This week has seen the beginning of a potentially important legal case that could see the momentum in the battle against IP and copyrighted material theft swing back in favour ...
Fallout 3 suffers early piracy blow
Most publishers are accustomed to their titles hitting the pirate network the very moment they’re shipped out to retail, but Bethesda has suffered an early blow with news that Fallout ...
Spore faces piracy backlash
A report showing that EA’s PC hit Spore is suffering from unusually high numbers of illegal downloads has been blamed on the fact that EA has implemented stern digital rights ...
Illegal GTA IV rip appears online
The first reports of illegal rips of GTA IV appearing online on Xbox 360 have started to emerge – and the game’s presence on a number of gamertags confirms that ...
