Tag Archives: piracy

Group has power to close down sties infringing copyright laws

In what is being described as an innovative new strategy”, a new Intellectual Property Crime Unit has been formed to help fight UK piracy. The Unit has the power to seize assets and shut down sites found to be hosting pirated material. Furthermore, it pledges to work with online advertisers, …

But developer is understanding Illegitimate port of XBLA-exclusive

The Entertainment Software Association served 3.4m takedown notices for copyright infringement in 2012, according to a recently released annual report from the organization. The report states that anti-piracy efforts last year assisted in removing nearly 100k Google links containing infringed game files, adding that the average duration of time it …

Microsoft and publishers to take a cut of marked up pre-owned Xbox One games

A significant study by a group of universities has downplayed the significance of video games piracy. Wired has word of a joint study between the Department of Communication and Psychology at Aalborg University and the PLAIT Lab at Northeastern University as well as Robert Veitch from the Department of IT …

Piracy, particularly over the Internet, has continued to grow in India over the past year, a new report by the US government has stated, albeit without any reference to gaming. India has once again made it onto the US government’s priority watch list for its lack of protection of intellectual …

Pirated games can now be played on the Wii U, a group of modders have claimed. Eurogamer reports that Wiikey, the collective that first cracked the now widely pirated Wii, said in a statement on its site: "Yes, its real. We have now completely reversed the WiiU drive authentification, disk …

Players of illegally downloaded version of Game Dev Tycoon plagued by poor sales

'Respect your customers and they may in turn purchase your game instead of pirating it'