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more about #crime Lumice: I'm gonna stop playing WoW now that I know Blizzard would sell the rights of my privacy to the US government. more » BakaDango: Well that puts a twist on raiding! more » Rocketknight: Had Blizzard not cooperated, I'm inclined to think the police either never would have been able to find him or would have taken much longer to find hi... more » Asbestos_Underwear: "I was under the assumption that they wouldn't,"[...] react to a SUBPOENA That is quite a quote for somebody in law enforcement. more » Teran: I think some of these comments are pretty amusing. First off, it's just silly to complain about the police doing their job. They don't make the laws... more » UltimatePancakeSensation: I think this is hardly Big Brothery. They gave the police his account information, some log-in times, and server of choice. The most harmful thing t... more » Tenshigure: To those complaining about Blizzard's action, from their Terms of Service: "WE ALSO RESERVE THE RIGHT, AT ALL TIMES AND IN OUR SOLE DISCRETION, TO DI... more » Latias_On_Vox: I know a lot of people in here like the freedom of choice that people have to use these drugs, but whenever I hear people talk amongst themselves abou... more » Bouchart: Blizzard goes after drug dealers because they hate competition. more » superberg: Ugh. If it had been, say, murder, I'd be behind this all the way. A quick glance at the controlled substances list tells me that it looks like he was... more » Keith Young: The information was SUBPOENAED, how was this "giving away" information? I know you guys don't have law degrees, but at least THINK about what you're ... more » VarstJasol: Since quite a few people mentioning it without actually citing the information. Here's the section that allows Blizzard to share your info if need be... more » kahoona: KEEP THAT DANGEROUS MARIJUANA OFF THE STREET... more » RobotJames: Let blizzard know... snitches get stitches more » Watonai: I wonder how the commenters here would have responded if this happened in China and the man wanted for being conspiracy against the state. more » Knoxximus ver. 5.66: I'm sure Blizzard thought long and hard about this one before proceeding...they probably had their version of the Grand Jury for this. more » Etheris: Every day I"m Rastlynn Rastlynn Every day I"m Rastlynn Every day I"m Rastlynn Ev-every day I'm Rastlynn more » vitalogst001: drug charges should no longer be prosecuted. Especially schedule III or IV. Come fucking on. more » Culebra: Wow, reading the article, it's amazing how simple and effective the hunt was. He used the IP address to get a latitude and longitude, then used Google... more » Obama takes time to read kotaku's comments...: Dealing marijuana is not a crime IMHO... Not taxing any sales of Marijuana or allowing the harvest of Hemp legally is criminally ascinine... the ot... more » -
#blizzbrotheriswatchingyou
Blizzard Helps Cops Track Down WoW Fan, Suspected Drug Dealer
Wanted on drug dealing charges, Alfred Hightower skipped the country after a warrant was issued for his arrest. But he didn't stop playing World of Warcraft and that's how police caught him. More » -
#crime
Burglary Delayed By Mystery Game
An Illinois woman came home Monday afternoon to discover a burglar playing a game on her DS, the Herald News reports.
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#whoops
Stolen 360 Helps Cops Bag Prolific Bronx Burglar
Jeremiah Gilliam's streak of 200-plus larcenies and burglaries came to an end when the criminal mastermind plugged in a jacked Xbox Live, leading the cops directly to his door. More » -
#stabblestabble
Drunk Scot Woman Stabs Teen in Xbox Argument
Whoa, whoa, whoa, lady. When I said, "try safe, effective, fast-acting kick his ass," for video game-playing kids who won't listen, I did not mean "ventilate his abdomen with a kitchen knife." More » -
#crime
GameStop Clerk Shot During Robbery
An employee at the GameStop store in Orange County, Florida, was shot earlier today during an armed robbery. More » -
#crime
Missouri Man Serving 10 in the Can for Xbox Live Hookup
A 27-year-old man met a 15-year-old girl over Xbox Live, then drove 30 hours to Central California to have sex with her, and now is looking at 10 years in the federal slammer. More » -
#crime
Console Thefts Up 285%
Data released by the FBI today reveals that the number of reported thefts of video game consoles in the United States in 2009 has risen by an amazing 285% over the 2007 figures. More » -
#crime
Game Voice Actress Received Death Threats
Yurika Ochiai, a voice actress with credits in visual novel ToHeart2 and Konami's Quiz Magic Academy, has announced on her blog that she is the victim of several death threats against her. More » -
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#tragedy
Pot, Video Games, Child Care: Which One Is Not Like the Other?
A Florida father is looking at a long and uncomfortable tour of the justice system after getting high, gaming all night, and then falling asleep on his 7-month-old daughter, suffocating her in the process. More » -
#doctordetroit
Detroit Shopper Gets Cray-Cray When He Can't Return a Console
The ancient Chinese curse reads, "May you live in interesting times." So when a GameStopper says "It was an interesting day here," you know he's not talking about big sales. More » -
#crime
Cyber Monday GameStop Robbery
Of all the shopping-heavy days in the year, two robbers in Maplewood, Missouri picked Cyber Monday as the likeliest day to do their "shopping" at GameStop in person. With a weapon. More » -
#crime
Teen Calls 911 After Parents Take Away Xbox 360
According to The Chicago Tribune, a 15-year-old called 911 and then hung up. He wanted to know whether or not his parents were within their rights to take away his Xbox 360. More » -
#haveaseat
PS3: It Only Catches a Predator
Federal agents typically used $1,100 computers to crack passwords to the seized hard drives of suspected child pornographers. Now they're using $300 PlayStation 3s to pull off the same task. More » -
#robbery
Heist Nets 100 Copies of Modern Warfare 2
Conflict currency - it's not cash, but goods or valuables that are small, easily liquidated, easily smuggled. Diamonds are the classic example. We might have to add Modern Warfare 2 to the list, after what just went down in Pennsylvania. More » -
#ruhroh
PS3: It Only Does Kidnapping ...
A Florida teenager says he was kidnapped at gunpoint, driven to a Walmart and forced to buy his captors a PlayStation 3 for the new super-low price of $299.99. Cops have arrested one suspect. More » -
#what
Oh No! Mario & Luigi Wanted For Assaulting NY Cabbie
With New Super Mario Bros. Wii hitting this weekend, you'd think the bros would be on their best behavior. But cops are on the lookout for Mario and Luigi following an assault on a New York cabbie. More » -
#ruhroh
Wii-Bowling Drug Cops Get Off Lite
A-member them law enforcement perfesshunals down in Florida who killed time on a raid by bowling up big scores on a drug kingpin's Wii? Well, 11 of them got sanctioned for their conduct, but not too hard, now. More » -
#nintendo
Nintendo Thanks People For Ratting Out R4 Retailers
Kyoto-based game company Nintendo created an anonymous form for collect information about the sale of R4 cartridges in Japan. This information will be used by Nintendo in its legal suit.
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#akihabara
Akihabara Killer Says He Deserves Death
In June 2008, tragedy struck Tokyo's video game/anime/manga district Akihabara. Tomohiro Kato stabbed over 15 individuals, killing 7. He now says he deserves death. More » -
#piracy
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 »
