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UK government minister joins pirate raids
News UK culture minister Kim Howells has attended a dawn raid on an address used to distribute pirated games software. The raids, which followed suspicions that a company called Brian Green Software had been trading in pirated goods, resulted in the...
[December 4, 2002, 16:42]
'Taster' pirated copies lure gaming fans
News A protection system from Macrovision and British games developer Codemasters ensures that pirated copies of games slowly degenerate to the point where they become unusable -- players in car games will find they can no longer steer, games involving...
[October 14, 2003, 11:20]
Hackers release Xbox tool despite Microsoft threats
News A signed boot loader won't allow the console to run pirated games, whereas the exploit they have developed will. If Microsoft had agreed to sign Linux then it would have been possible.to prevent the illegal use of pirated software," the statement...
[July 4, 2003, 9:00]
Xbox Linux project gets $200,000 developer lure
News The payment could add to the appeal of the project, which is pitched as a hobbyist's pastime rather than an effort to allow Xbox to run pirated games. Several modification chips for Xbox, designed specifically to allow it to run pirated games, have...
[July 2, 2002, 16:21]
Feds hijack illicit sites
News Rocci "attempted to profit by marketing circumvention devices to (the gaming) community knowing they would be used to play pirated games," Michael Chertoff, the assistant attorney general for the DOJ's criminal division, said in a statement.
[February 27, 2003, 11:18]
UK teen escapes jail for nuclear hacking
News But he had only used spare storage space on the labs computers and broadband access to upload pirated movies, software and games for him and his friends to use. The court ordered that all the pirated software, movies and games found on McElroy's...
[February 3, 2004, 9:40]
Aussie mod-chip veto criticised
News While the ACCC supports Sony's right to crack down on the sale of pirated copies of Playstation games, this decision now means Australian consumers will be unable to enjoy games legitimately bought overseas, as well as legitimate backup copies.
[August 1, 2003, 12:05]
News Schmooze: China gives up software piracy
News The idea is that this will encourage more buyers to actually pay for the operating system, instead of getting a cheaper one with Linux and then overwriting it with a £2 pirated version of Windows. In a country where 90 percent of software is...
[December 7, 2001, 17:07]
'Mod' squad hacks away at Xbox
News A second "mod chip", an add-on chip for the console that lets consumers play pirated discs and other applications on their consoles, is now available. There is a very large development community that could release hundreds of freeware games or...
[June 19, 2002, 8:38]
Software makers ignoring anti-piracy technology in favour of sales
Talkback Recently I have started downloading pirated software (mainly games) off the internet because software these days is priced too expensivly (escpecially games, I mean £40 per game, come on! Like most people I hate annyoing anti-piracy features.
[May 13, 2005, 12:55]
News Burst: Dreamcast hacked
News The copy protection on Sega's video-game console -- thought to be the strongest available in the UK -- has been broken and several pirated games have been distributed over the Internet. Once the console is enabled, it can read cracked versions of...
[July 3, 2000, 10:37]
Xbox hackers attempt to blackmail Microsoft
News A signed Linux boot loader will not allow users to load pirated games, they say. A group of Xbox-security researchers say they have found a way to run Linux on the Xbox games console without a mod chip and will go public with the technique if...
[June 27, 2003, 15:27]
Sony's mod chip battle heats up
News Sony, which claims its only concern about the use of the chips is that they allow pirated games to be played on the consoles, has responded angrily. Professor Fels contends that the range of games offered by overseas markets is cheaper and more...
[February 14, 2002, 10:12]
Xbox update shuts out Linux
Talkback Microsoft have deleted the files that enable me to store and run pirated copies of games from my xbox- whata cruel world! This is a GAMEs console. GAMEs are supposed to be FUN- so go away and ENJOY! You know what?
[January 7, 2004, 14:02]
Sony wins landmark case against mod chips
News Users could install them in their PS2 to play imported games from other regions as well as pirated copies. Messiah allowed owners of PlayStation2 consoles to play NTSC games on PAL consoles, allowed PlayStation2 owners to play DVD disks from any...
[July 22, 2004, 14:10]
Xbox mod chip discontinued
News Schelley Olhava, gaming analyst for research firm IDC, said pirated games running on an altered Xbox are unlikely to have a significant effect on sales of legitimate games. But the vast majority of people are just going to play games.
[June 27, 2002, 8:36]
Sony-Connectix bout moves to next round
News However, it also hinges on Sony's contention that the Virtual Game Station software offered insufficient protection against running pirated versions of PlayStation games, especially compared with the anti-piracy measures Sony claims are built into...
[July 10, 2000, 10:03]
Has the warez battle been won?
News Typical divisions are the DivX scene for movies available in MPEG-4 format, the MP3 scene for music available in that popular format, and the PS2 scene for pirated PlayStation2 games. Maynard said she was surprised to hear that RIT was well known...
[December 20, 2001, 11:11]
Malaysian price controls leave back door open
News Even the lowest-price software -- games, utilities -- are pirated. Sometimes even free software is pirated and sold," she argued. People have to understand that morally and ethically it is wrong to use pirated software," he said.
[July 14, 2003, 13:32]
File-swapping service shutters on DoJ concerns
News From the copyright evader's perspective, storage services such as I-Drive, Xdrive Technologies or Freespace were similar to the networks of short-lived, private FTP (file transfer protocol) sites, where individuals have long offered pirated games...
[January 23, 2001, 9:34]
