Tag: piracy
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The devs of Conan Exiles upload the game to Steam without any protection
Conan Exiles debuted on Steam earlier this week and very quickly ended up cracked and pirated. It was supposed to be secured by Denuvo, the famous anti-piracy software that took a while to crack. Except that it wasn’t. The game developer Funcom says that this was entirely an employee error, somebody uploaded the game without any…
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Starbreeze looks for new employees… among pirates!
At least some companies realize how to function these days (yes, I am talking to you Ubisoft). Starbreeze Studios, the makers of The Chronicles of Riddick: Escape from Butcher Bay and latest Syndicate is looking for new employees in a NFO file in Syndicate’s installation folder. The file is called Syndicate-SBZ.nfo and it contains info…
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Gabe Newell: Piracy is a “Non-issue” to Valve; Providing better Services Will Result in More Sales
In a recent interview with TCS, Gabe Newell explained why Valve is so successful. Recently we posted how Ubisoft were abandoning the PC market due to piracy, and imposing heavy DRM on their customers, but according to Newell that’s not really the right way to go about it. He said that there is a general…
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Gabe Newell on piracy and DRM
“Russia now outside of Germany is our largest continental European market,” Newell was quoted as saying on Geekwire. Presumably this also means the UK is Valve’s largest continental European market. But Newell’s statement also indicates that Russia eclipses France, Spain and Scandinavian countries in terms of profits. It seems other games companies who had tried…
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Few words about ACTA
ACTA is a global anti-counterfeiting (and anti-piracy) agreement that might change the internet as we know it. It would give federal officials the right to inspect your files without any warrant. It would make unauthorized possession of copyrighted material a federal crime. And there’s nowhere in the developed world you’d be able to go to…
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Modern Warfare 2 Most Pirated Title of 2009
According to TorrentFreak, Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 2 has been downloaded illegally nearly 4,100,000 times for PC in 2009, topping the list after only releasing just two months ago. Provided these numbers are indeed accurate, Activision has potentially lost more than $245 million in sales on the PC version alone. The Sims 3, Prototype,…