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Piracy Archive
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Seven Arrests at Megaupload, Anonymous retaliates
Posted on January 19, 2012 | 1 CommentFour arrests, $50 million in assets seized, and dozens of domains and servers belonging to MegaUpload, the file transfer website, were taken into custody by the United States federal authorities earlier today. The unsealed documents, generated two weeks ago by a grand jury in Virginia,... -
Fox! You got some ‘splainin’ to do.
Posted on August 24, 2011 | No CommentsFox recently made the move to make online tv viewers who aren’t paying for their service (Hulu Free users) wait for 8 days after their shows air to watch them. A few show already have this limit on them and while Fox is the first... -
XBox 360: Nov. 4th dashboard update includes anti-piracy measures
Posted on August 3, 2010 | 1 CommentWith Kinect comes new software updates. November 4 brings Kinect compatibility software to all 360s, and includes a coded live banning system into the dashboard that will detect whether or not you have a flashed DVD drive (used to play burned games). If your DVD... -
Butthurt Nintendo gets $1.3 million worth of revenge
Posted on February 9, 2010 | 1 CommentNintendo announced that they were the victor of an Australian court case involving a man, James Burt, who uploaded the first pirated copy of New Super Mario Brothers Wii onto the internet a week before it’s official release. Captain Burt now owes $1.3 million dollars... -
Do not plunder France’s Internet booty
Posted on January 4, 2010 | No CommentsGamePolitics.com is reporting a delay in the Hadopi Law that would punish French Internet pirates. Oh, and in case you didn’t know, there’s a law the French senate has voted through and is trying to put in effect that would punish internet piracy, much akin to...