All the stories tagged with piracy
Jailbreak of Xbox Still Deemed Illegal by Judge
11/24/2010, Even though the government has revised the Digital Millennium Copyright Act (DCMA) to make it legal for users to jailbreak their iPhones, a judge says that the fair use policy does not apply when applied to jailbreaking for Microsoft’s Xbox [...]
Nintendo Will Auto-Update 3DS to Prevent Piracy
10/01/2010, According to Nintendo, the company’s portable Nintendo 3DS gaming system, which promises a glasses-free 3D experience, will auto-update itself to block and prevent pirated games and contents from loading onto the device. The company intends on using its sleep-WiFi capability [...]
Nintendo Blocks Piracy Flashcards With Firmware Update
09/09/2010, Piracy is always going to be a sore point for the game industry, and Nintendo has quietly released a firmware update this week for its DSi portable gaming console. The update seems to have targeted flashcards, which are small cartridges [...]
Ubisoft Thinks That You Should Be Online To Play Your Games
01/28/2010, This probably isn’t going to go down well with many folks out there. It seems that, in order to combat piracy, Ubisoft has decided that every time you want to play your game, it has to phone back to Ubisoft [...]
Cost Of App Store Piracy Is $450m?
01/13/2010, Reports are coming in that Apple and the App Store developers have lost a good $450 million to piracy, since the App Store has been opened in July 2008. The figure is apparently based on estimates regarding the proportion of [...]
