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Anodyne Developers Claim Pirate Bay Promo a Huge Success
The creators of the Zelda-ish 8-bit adventure game Anodyne say that spending just a few dollars to have their game featured on the front page of The Pirate Bay drove more sales than videos or reviews...
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Microsoft Promises Bans for Those Playing Pirated Version of Gears of War:...
Microsoft promises "vigorous action" against those individuals who downloaded a pirated version of Gears of War: Judgment. The complete copy of Gears of War: Judgment appeared on internet torrent sites...
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Sony Computer Entertainment America Patent Filing Shows Method for Fighting...
A patent filed for in 2011 by Sony Computer Entertainment America (and unearthed last week by web site Dark Zero) uses load times to determine if software being loaded into a system is legitimate or...
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Report: Six Strikes Copyright Enforcement Scheme Going Live Today
According to DSL Reports, the "six strikes" copyright enforcement scheme agreed upon by rights holders in the music and movie industry and various internet service providers will go into effect today....
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Nintendo Offers Recommendations on Fighting Piracy to U.S. Trade...
Every year rights holders get to offer their input in the U.S. Trade Representative’s Special 301 report, identifying piracy sites and offering recommendations on how best to combat piracy both online...
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Cablevision Disconnects Serial Infringers for 24 Hours Under New Six Strikes...
While the "six strikes" anti-piracy program agreed upon by Internet service providers and intellectually property owners went into effect this week, service providers and the entertainment industry...
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On this week's show, hosts Andrew Eisen and E. Zachary Knight are joined by James Fudge to discuss the new Six Strikes anti-piracy scheme, Time Warner Cable's insistence that customers don't want...
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Super Meat Boy Developer Argues Against Using DRM
In a recent blog post Super Meat Boy developer Tommy Refenes argues that using DRM to keep games from being pirated and general apathy ultimately hurts developers. He also notes that applying loss...
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Game of Thrones Author George R.R. Martin on Piracy and Video Games
George R.R. Martin, prolific fantasy author and the creator of the A Song of Ice and Fire book series on which HBO's hit TV series is based, took questions before yesterday's Game of Thrones screening...
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Spain Proposes Draft Bill to Crackdown on Pirate Sites, Outlaw File-Sharing
Today the Spanish Government released details on amendments to its copyright law (so-called Sinde Law, which was instituted in 2012) that will provide more protections to rights holders and offer...
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Cox Communications Eschews Copyright Alert System for its Own 10+ Strikes
While Cox Communications may have declined the offer to join the "six-strikes" copyright enforcement and educational program (the Copyright Alert System) that a lot of other service providers have in...
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Russia Won't Hold Individual File-Sharers Liable, But will Target Piracy Sites
If you live in Russia and enjoy piracy, then you'll probably be delighted to hear that the Russian government thinks it is a waste of time to pursue you or any other person with any kind of serious...
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House Judiciary Chairman Promises Series of Hearings on U.S. Copyright Law
House Judiciary Chairman Bob Goodlatte (R-Va.) announced yesterday plans to conduct a serious of hearings aimed at identifying problems with U.S. copyright laws and updating them for the modern digital...
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Pirates Feel the Effects of Piracy in Game Dev Tycoon
Developer Greenheart Games has released a "cracked version" of its $8 PC and Mac title Game Dev Tycoon on torrents that's specifically for pirates. The cracked version of the game causes game...
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USTR Releases 2013 Special 301 Report
The Office of the United States Trade Representative (USTR) has released its 2013 Special 301 Report, detailing regions outside of the United States that are havens for piracy and do not enforce US...
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ESA Releases 2012 Annual Report
The Entertainment Software Association (ESA) released its 2012 Annual Report (PDF) today, revealing that it sent a total of 3.4 million takedown notices for copyright infringement and helped remove...
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Russian Hacker Pirates The Dishwasher, Calls it 'Justice'
A Russian coder and hacker known only as "Barabus" has ported Ska Studios popular "M" rated XBLA action game The Dishwasher: Vampire Smile to the PC. But before you celebrate, this PC version of the...
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Miyamoto: Piracy More of a Concern Than Used Games for Nintendo
Legendary Nintendo designer Shigeru Miyamoto says that used games are less of a concern than the elephant that has always been in the room: piracy. Speaking to CVG Nintendo's most prominent and...
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France's Hadopi Law Faces Uncertain Future
After three years in place and "millions" of threatening letters being sent to alleged illegal file sharers in France, the French three-strikes anti-piracy law Hadopi has finally led to the...
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Google and Yandex Voice Opposition to Russia's 'SOPA'
Google and Russia's biggest search engine Yandex are voicing their opposition to a new bill that would block sites accused of hosting (in some way) copyrighted material. The new bill, which has already...
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