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mea culpa

Ziff Sets Us Straight On Stolen Street Fighter IV Pics

Earlier today, we posted about the plight of "tiny Brazilian blog" Blogeek, who, as you may remember, posted a pair of screen shots of Street Fighter IV yesterday. Amazingly, the site scooped 1UP to its own exclusive, claiming it had received the screens and details on the Capcom fighter from an "anonymous source." The site's owner, Douglas Pereira, wrote us this morning, crying out for help. "Ziff Davis is going after me. They're chasing me," he lamented. It was very heart-wrenching.

Sounds like EGM and 1UP were quite justified in their legal "picking on" of Pereira and Blogeek. He's an EGM Brazil freelancer and has now admitted to swiping the pics from Ziff-Davis' own media servers. EGM editor-in-chief Dan Hsu, who says ZD has the IP logs of the transgression to back it up, explains.

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7:20 PM on Fri Dec 7 2007
By Michael McWhertor
28,019 views, 165 comments

Latest by DarkAdonis: I have nothing against people who speak (or in this case write) their mind, but when proven wrong at least own up to your mistakes and apologize. Instead of an apology ZD gets thanked for "clearing up the matter". With such a well known site with a lot of influence when it more »

debt consolidation

Ziff-Davis Money Troubles Come To A Head

The publisher of Electronic Gaming Monthly and Games for Windows Magazine, Ziff-Davis Media, failed to make an interest payment yesterday and announced that it was negotiating with its lenders to restructure a rather sizable debt. The company, which also owns the web sites 1UP, FileFront, GameVideos, MyCheats and GameTab, owes some $390 million, a figure which CEO Josh Young says "was put on the company when it was a very different scale." The group now employs less than 300, down from 1200 at one point. More »

5:20 PM on Thu Aug 16 2007
By Michael McWhertor
4,190 views, 57 comments

Latest by 7ucky: EGM OHHNOES! more »

ziff-davis

Ziff Davis Undervalued, Unwanted

The New York Post has a short item about Ziff-Davis' fall from grace in the publishing world. More »

11:57 AM on Thu Jan 18 2007
By Brian Crecente
352 views, 13 comments

Latest by LORDofDANCE: @miswesagi I have free subsciptions to those mags too. In fact, Kotaku gave me the heads up on that deal. I don't really like EGM, but it is free. more »

cgw

CGW Gets Renamed, Free Computer

Ziff-Davis is teaming up with Microsoft to spin Computer Gaming World magazine into Games for Windows: The Official Magazine. ZD says the magazine and an online site will launch this fall. More »

12:19 AM on Thu Aug 3 2006
By Brian Crecente
139 views, 15 comments

Latest by JasonC: Hi there. I'm the person quoted above from the Quarter to Three message board. I think our good friends at Kotaku either misunderstood me, or didn't read the whole thread. CGW (soon to be GFWM) isn't the only ones getting the PCs. Microsoft is sending out a bunch of them to a more »