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Ubisoft Blames Disk Manufacturer For 700,000 Pirated Copies of PC Assassin’s Creed, Files $10 Million Lawsuit

While we were busy fawning over Ubisoft’s new games at E3 2008 a few weeks ago, Ubisoft was spending its time filing a lawsuit in North Carolina, against its former disc reproduction firm Optical Experts Manufacturing (OEM). Alleging that an OEM employee took home a copy of Assassin’s Creed PC and leaked it onto the internet [...]

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Flashcarts Under Fire: Nintendo Sues R4 Importers in Japan

Nintendo has tried — and by some accounts, failed — to stop DS software piracy in Korea with threats of “strict legal action” against those distributing the pirated commercial titles. But in Japan, they’re taking a different tack. Rather than trace the digital ones and zeros left behind by ROM pirates, Nintendo has instead decided [...]

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Community Content: The Sincerest Form of Infringement

Solid community-created game content, when done right, is every publisher’s fantasy. Game companies hope and pray for the day when talented fans of their games take the time to explore the development tools and put together competent, high-quality additions to the original product. It’s a win-win for everyone: Assuming the user’s content takes off, the [...]

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GameSpyte Lyte: Yo Ho Ho and a Bottle of ROMs

Hi there, and thanks for consciously choosing not to read GameSpyte instead of just glossing past it. Your brief consideration is all we need. Today, we’ll be celebrating pirates, but not the cool marketable kind with eyeliner and slurred dialogue — the boring, digital kind. Step aboard!

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New Chip to Solve Piracy Forever and Ever, Honest

Yo ho ho and a bottle of ROMs! Nolan Bushnell, speaking yesterday at a Wedbush Morgan Securities conference, advised attendees that a new chip, shipping on new PC motherboards, will finally eliminate software piracy at home and abroad. According to the report on GamesIndustry.biz, the new chip is such a foolproof system that software publishers [...]

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Complaining has Massive Effect on DRM

The gamers have spoken, and BioWare has listened, for the most part. Following the news that the upcoming PC version of Mass Effect would use an especially strict form of DRM which re-authenticated the game every ten days, gamers responded less-than-favorably (judging by the 113-page thread on BioWare’s forums). Now, BioWare has relented on a [...]

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Mass Effect Sports SecuROM, Requires Internet Validation Every 10 Days

The ANGRY Pixel is reporting that over at the BioWare community forums, technical producer Derek French has disclosed that not only will the PC port of Mass Effect require SecuROM validation, but it will continue to require internet authentication at least once every 10 days.

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No More PC Exclusives for Crytek, But No Crysis Port Either

Croatian gaming mag PC Play has a revealing interview with Crytek president Cevat Yerli, in which we find that piracy is forcing the German studio to develop multi-platform titles.

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Microsoft Appears to be Investigating GTA IV Piracy

Now, folks, when we spoke yesterday about that leak of GTA IV through various torrent sites, we neglected to mention that one of the main requests of the iCON group was that you not be so stupid as to play while your 360 is still connected to Live. Because that would be stupid. Someone might [...]

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GTA IV Leaked Through Bit Torrent

According to Kotaku, a pirated copy of GTA IV is now live and available for download on various torrent servers. This particular copy is the PAL copy, and it is being provided by a group called iCON.

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