The story is interesting on its own. That it's not a PC story makes me fell all good inside.
The posting last Thursday on Craigslist was alarming. Someone was selling a Modern Warfare 2 Xbox 360 bundle, with both a console and a game, for $500. The problem was that Modern Warfare 2, one of the most anticipated games of the year, doesn’t officially go on sale until Nov. 10.
Activision Blizzard, the game’s publisher, called in IPCybercrime.com, a Dallas private investigation firm that specializes in online investigations. The investigators tracked down the seller and stumbled into a scheme to pirate the game and sell a bunch of fake copies over the Internet. While the bust led to the arrest of just one hacker among many, it sheds light on the shadowy underground of the business of illegal piracy. It also offers a peak at how investigators try to head off a major piracy disaster before it happens.
And later:
Coincidentally, pirate digital copies of Modern Warfare 2 flooded onto torrent sites, which are peer-to-peer sites for sharing software, on the same day. That has likely caused untold losses for Activision Blizzard, Holmes said.
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These are the kind of heroic acts that made us who we are today.
ReplyDeleteI think we should go to texas and break this bitch out of prison.
Smiles, get your guns, Frisky get your Hubble Bubble, Messiah bring your notepad, Remmy bring your barbies and petroleum jelly, Maug... bring a cup of coffee and I'll bring : A loaf of bread, Peanut Butter (extra crunchy half a jar), Blackberry Jelly (expired 02/02/06), 14 saltine crackers, 1 can of Mrs. Grimes Black Beans, 2 wickless candles, extra pair of socks, insulated trousers, tackle box with 6 foot fish stringer and some cheddar crackers.
See you all in texas !