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Report: The Most Pirated Games Of 2009
Sales figures can be an impressive thing, but so too can the figures showing how many times a game has been pirated. OK, maybe not "impressive". "Disappointing" might be a more suitable term. More »EA CEO: "I Think Of Pirates As A Marketplace"
John Riccitiello, the gaming-savvy head of Electronic Arts, doesn't want anyone to pirate games. But those who do, he told Kotaku, present a new market that EA needs to make money from. More »TV Family Enjoys A Spot Of DS Homebrew?
Nintendo love to scour the dirtiest, most distant corners of the globe for people pirating their DS software. But do they ever check their TV sets? More »Trials Dev Pirated Its Own Game to Drive Interest
RedLynx, the developer of the well received downloadable title Trials, said that it seeded pirate torrent sites with neutered copies of the game in order to stoke interest in the title. More »To Catch A Modern Warfare 2 Cyber-Thief
Modern Warfare 2 is already making an appearance at torrent sites all over the internet, but it could have been worse. Dean Takahashi reports on how IPCybercrime stopped one pirate from making his big score. More »Major Nelson Weighs In On 360 Console Bans
Microsoft's Larry "Major Nelson" Hryb discusses the recent string of Xbox Live piracy console bannings, delivering an important caveat to those purchasing used machines in the process. More »Xbox Live Smashes Mass Banhammer on Pirates
"A small percentage" of Xbox Live users with modded consoles that allowed pirated games to play woke up to find an early treat in their Halloween bag: a banhammer. More »iPhone Game Piracy Rates Suck Too
The developers of iPhone beat 'em up Tap Fu have taken a look at the piracy percentages on their recently released game and, man, are they a black belt caliber kick in the balls. More »Remembering the Early Days of Copy Protection
I remember when my copy of Legacy of the Ancients arrived with its codewheel. I fired up my 1200 baud acoustically-coupled modem, hit the BBS and ranted my indignation that I can do as I please with my purchase. More »Pirate Bay Buyers Banned From Stock Exchange
Swedish stock market AktieTorget has banned potential Pirate Bay purchasers Global Gaming Factory X from offering stock, after determining that the company misled investors regarding their ability to buy the popular torrent site. More »Piracy Protection is Why PSPgo's Battery Isn't Removable
In reconfiguring their portable, Sony paid attention. Pandora's Battery made modding the PSP firmware, and thus software piracy, very easy. SCEA's John Koller said the PSPgo's battery was made internal-only for just that reason. More »Has Latest DSi Firmware Already Been Cracked?
The recent DSi firmware slipped in anti-piracy measures that made it impossible to run R4-style carts. Days later, the firmware already appears to be cracked. More »Nintendo Slips In Anti-Piracy Measures Into DSi Update
That recent DSi update that brought Facebook to Japanese DSi handhelds also brought something else: software to combat R4-type piracy devices. More »Former Grokster Exec Jumps Ship Over Doubts About Pirate Bay Deal
It sounds like the legalization of infamous BitTorrent tracker site The Pirate Bay has hit rough seas. More »Ubisoft Plans to Have Piracy Solution in Place This Year
Piracy has taken a hefty toll on Ubisoft, according to company head Yves Guillemot, but the developer and publisher say they are hard at work on a tool that should help reduce the negative impact. More »Ubisoft Sees Sharp Drop in Sales, Blames Market, DS Piracy
Sales for Ubisoft's second quarter is expected to show a more than 50 percent drop from the same quarter last year, the publisher and developer announced today. More »Let's Research Game Piracy On Japanese Trains
Field research time! Website Gpara wandered up and down train carriages on Tokyo's Yamanote Line, looking for players using R4 piracy devices. More »Hey Pirates, Beware of Fake Dragon Quest IX Hentai Boobies!
The "leaked" version of Dragon Quest IX is malware. The ROM was dumped early on to Japanese bulletin board 2chan and is actually a hentai slideshow show called "DS Owata". More »Don't Copy That Floppy: The Next Generation
MC Double Def DP's 1992 hit "Don't Copy That Floppy" is getting a modern-day update, once again unleashing the industry's number one weapon against software piracy - rap music. More »My Pirate, My Friend
Square Enix Brings Hammer Down On French Retailer
Like Nintendo, Square Enix take their intellectual property ownership seriously. So seriously that the Japanese publisher is taking legal action against a single French retailer, accused of selling pirated Square merchandise. More »