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Not only is Call of Duty: Black Ops one of the fastest selling video games of all time, racking up more than a billion dollars in sales in 2010, it's also impressively enough one of the most illegally downloaded. More »
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Comcast customers have reason to be nervous today, as a federal appeals court rules that the Federal Communications Commission doesn't have the authority to enforce Net Neutrality on internet providers. More »
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Well, it had to happen - Spore has hit the intertorrents. Pirates are downloading spores through the intricate series of tubes we call the internet. More »
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We got an email from an anonymous tipster yesterday, indicating that the US version of Final Fantasy XII had been leaked in ISO form to various torrent sites. We checked when we heard it, but didn't come up with anything that looked legit. More »
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Ask the Kotaku Scouts, and ye shall receive. A reader whom I shall dub "Hamswaddle the Fierce" to protect his salty identity has written in to assure me that Introversion's swaggering is misplaced. To further protect Hamswaddle's precious alter ego, I have also obscured his voice with my handheld iPatois, which came bundled with a Buccaneer setting: More »
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We keep getting sued, but we keep doing it anyway: peer to peer networks are going strong. I don't need to tell you this; you're probably downloading the latest Evangelion hentai spinoff fansub from at least four peers at this very moment. More »
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Amongst myriad other changes in World of Warcraft's 1.10 patch lurks a somewhat more insidious one. WoW's patching system works off of the Bittorrent protocol. In previous patches, the patcher would only upload while you were downloading the latest patch, or kept the WoW updater window open. However, this is no longer the case — the Blizzard forums are full of reports that the Blizzard Downloader is now constantly running, regardless of whether or not you close the Download Patch program. In other words — you're paying Blizzard so they can suck up your bandwidth for you. More »
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