Torrent trackers The Pirate Bay have had the authorities tightening the noose around their operations for years now, but this week things have taken a twist for the absurd/awesome. » 12/10/13 10:30pm 12/10/13 10:30pm

Now that Ubisoft has made not one but two pirate-themed games in the Assassin's Creed universe, a survey being sent out to fans (and through them to IGN) wonders if players wouldn't just be fine with a straight-up pirate game. » 12/06/13 1:00pm 12/06/13 1:00pm

About the only thing I can see that's wrong with this diabolical plot is the fact suckers have to download an 18GB torrent before the malware is unleashed. Otherwise, there's a bogus torrent of Grand Theft Auto V's nonexistent PC version that's claimed several victims of late. » 10/22/13 9:40am 10/22/13 9:40am

At first glance, Edward Kenway—the protagonist of the upcoming Assassin's Creed IV game—looks like your typical leading dude. Stoic, beefy, masculine. Nothing special, right? » 3/08/13 2:00am 3/08/13 2:00am

Earlier this week, there was chatter that The Pirate Bay, a popular BitTorrent site, had moved its servers to North Korea. That was a hoax. » 3/06/13 4:30am 3/06/13 4:30am

It takes an (admittedly self-serving) quote from an online retailer to say what every other industry executive must surely be thinking, but can never dare to say out loud. » 4/13/11 6:20am 4/13/11 6:20am

Garry Newman, the creator of the Garry's Mod mod/machinima toolkit for the PC, just sprung one of the best pirate traps in recent memory, tricking those who did not pay for his product into essentially giving themselves up. » 4/13/11 1:30am 4/13/11 1:30am

Under current Japanese, it is illegal to upload or sell pirated games and movies. It is legal to copy for one's own personal use. Better get all your personal copying done pronto, because that's going to get harder. » 12/06/10 4:00am 12/06/10 4:00am

In an interview with Japanese website 4gamer, Street Fighter series producer Yoshinori Ono says that a strong potential for piracy is keeping PC gamers from getting their own version of Super Street Fighter IV. » 9/22/10 11:40am 9/22/10 11:40am

Pirates lay siege to the Island of Perfection in the upcoming Chapter 9 downloadable content for 505 Games' killer plushie simulator Naughty Bear. And so the circle is complete. » 9/08/10 11:20am 9/08/10 11:20am

Letters, we get letters. We get lots and lots of letters. Letters! It's time to take a peek into the Kotaku mailbag. » 6/11/10 7:00am 6/11/10 7:00am

We have already polled you, Joe Q. Reader, about piracy. Let's hear the results of a Japanese poll. Are they the same? » 4/28/10 3:00am 4/28/10 3:00am

LucasArts celebrates the summer release of The Secret of Monkey Island: Special Edition on the PlayStation 3 with enough virtual goods to recreate the game yourself in PlayStation Home. » 4/15/10 4:30pm 4/15/10 4:30pm

What could possibly be missing from Titan Studios' multiplayer online PlayStation Network game, Fat Princess? Oh yeah...those. » 8/19/09 4:40pm 8/19/09 4:40pm

We warned you, Canada. The ESA dropped us a line today to inform us that our neighbors to the north have officially made the U.S. Priority Watch List for failing to protect intellectual property. » 4/30/09 1:40pm 4/30/09 1:40pm

The Entertainment and Leisure Software Publishers Association rings in the new year with news of their first anti-piracy raid of 2009, in which they seized computers and more than 1,000 illegally copied games. » 1/09/09 10:20am 1/09/09 10:20am