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Nintendo Wins Legal Battle Against Piracy, Forces Closure of French Hosting Site
Nintendo continues its ongoing fight against piracy and has recently won an important legal battle against the French company Dstorage. This victory, according to Nintendo, is seen as a significant win for the entire gaming industry. The Legal Victory Against Dstorage Dstorage was accused of managing a collection of pirated…
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Forza Motorsport Has Already Been Cracked Following Early Access Release
Forza Motorsport is one of the games I’m looking forward to this year mostly down to the high hopes surrounding an actual progression system with a bit of a grind although some early reports have suggested it may not be as good as I hope. Now besides that, the game…
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Rockstar Gives Piracy Advocates More Ammo For Pro-Piracy
Rockstar Games has today been caught in a bit of a blunder in regards to piracy as they’ve been caught selling a cracked copy of Midnight Club 2 on Steam. Rockstar Selling Cracked Copies of Midnight Club 2 As shared by dsogaming.com, a modder by the name of Silent has…
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Nintendo Wins Lawsuit Against Piracy Site
Nintendo has been in the news a lot lately over legal issues and today has seen the company win a lawsuit against share hosting website operator Dstorage involving pirated games. Nintendo Wins Privacy Lawsuit As reported by Gamesindustry.biz, Nintendo took the share hosting website operator Dstorage to court over claims…
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UK Police Announce Major Crackdown on Illegal Sports Streams
Piracy is a crime, streaming dodgily obtained movies is illegal, etc. etc. – We all know it, and for those of you who do engage in it, don’t expect any judgment from me here. While the online variety of this was once more predominantly focused on music and software downloads,…
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Google Traffic Hit New All-Time High During World Cup Final
Whether you’re a football fan or not, it’s hard to deny that the World Cup Final between Argentina and France was an amazing game between two well-balanced teams. With the pressures of such crucial matches often typically leading to rather drab defensive styles of play, however, I would be willing…
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Thousands Watch Pirated World Cup Stream – Was Actually Just FIFA 23
With the World Cup 2022 currently underway, it’s hardly surprising that for those living in regions where watching the matches for free isn’t available, many will turn towards the somewhat shady world of pirated live streams as a solution to that problem. – And no, this isn’t, of course, uncommon…
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Resident Evil 4 Remake Will ‘Feature’ Denuvo (Despite RE: Village Issues!)
The Resident Evil 4 Remake is set for release on March 24th 2023 and I daresay that it’s already pretty high on a lot of people’s ‘hype’ list. – Based on the trailer, it does look pretty amazing and certainly seems to be giving one of the franchise’s most beloved…
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Scammers Accused of Uploading Copyrighted Movies Just to Blackmail Downloaders
Piracy is a crime, and downloading copyrighted material or using it without the owner’s permission, as I’m pretty sure that the vast majority of you know, is against the law. This is, incidentally, no judgment of any of you who do involve yourselves in such activities. It’s just a fact.…
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Denuvo Adds Anti-Piracy Support to Nintendo Switch Games
Denuvo is quite possible some of the most unpopular software around. – For those of you unaware of what is it, the chances are that if you’re a PC gamer you’ve probably encountered it on more than a few occasions without even knowing it. Especially if you play Capcom titles.…
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Research Concludes that Anti-Piracy Advertising Only Likely Encouraged It!
We all know that piracy is a crime. No matter how you choose to morally wrap it up, it does ultimately boil down to theft. – And if you were to tell me that you’d never engaged in it at some point in your life, you’d have to forgive me…
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Denuvo Prepares New DRM Technology Specifically for DLC Piracy
Denuvo is probably one of the most controversial pieces of software around when it comes to PC games. – For those of you unaware, it effectively represents a DRM-based anti-piracy measure that looks (often without much success) to prevent games from being cracked and distributed for free. To date, however,…
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DuckDuckGo Says it Hasn’t Banned Piracy Search Results
While an exceptionally long way from hitting the levels of traffic seen with Google, DuckDuckGo has, in recent years, been gaining a lot of traction with the internet community. The reasons for this can largely be explained in two simple points. It doesn’t use algorithms to track your search activity,…
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DuckDuckGo Continues Content Crackdown with Piracy Sites Removed!
Founded in 2008, while DuckDuckGo certainly has nowhere near the prominence or traffic of Google, in terms of search engines I think it would be fair to say that many today now choose to use this as a, rightly or wrongly, superior alternative. – One of the key features of…
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Russia May Be Changing Laws to Legalise Software Piracy!
Following Russia’s invasion of Ukraine late last month, in terms of the tech world the news has been pretty much dominated with companies effectively announcing that they were either suspending support or hardware supplies to the country until, basically, the war comes to a peaceful end. I’d list off the…
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