Tag Archives: piracy

David Braben speaks out on controversial advertising practices used by games developers

Hackers say certain games can be manipulated to provide access to handheld's core

Sony has removed PlayStation Vita compatible PSP game Everybody’s Tennis from the PSN Store after reports that it had allowed pirates to crack the new handheld. The Sixth Axis reckons that Sony previously removed MotorStorm Arctic Edge from its download portal for exactly the same reason. Members of the PlayStation …

Witcher 2 'cracked within two hours of release' despite using SecuROM, says Marcin Iwinski

The Digital Economy Act anti file-sharing legislation received a boost as the Court of Appeal upheld an earlier High Court ruling that backed the DEA. British ISPs BT and TalkTalk had brought the appeal as the firm’s argued against controversial measures in the act that would force ISPs to send …

Xbox 360, PS3 and PC versions pirated

'You don't want to worry about the people who were never going to pay you' says Seamless Entertainment boss

In what is certainly a very unusual move, online file-sharing giant RapidShare has chosen to deliberately slow its download speed for non-registered users. The site denies that this is simply a tactic to drive users to its registered, paying users. Instead, it claims the decision was made to make the …

Using magnets instead of torrents 'will make is harder for our common enemies to stop us'

Creating new media format 'completely necessary', says Sony's Scott Rohde