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Articles on Piracy

Up to 1 million Xbox Live players banned due to piracy

Crave It's oh-so enticing: You find a copy of a brand new game like Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 2 on a pirate site and the temptation to download it is too ... Read story »

Xbox Live bannings leave Chinese and ex-pat gamers stranded

Blogs Microsoft's recent piracy clampdown in its Xbox Live online gaming service is leaving a lot of gamers in China stranded. They're now finding that their modded consoles or pirated games are ... Read story »

Manufacturers & BPOs in RP are top software Sparrows

Blogs The Philippine Daily Inquirer, in an article published today, reported that manufacturers and BPOs in the Philippines are the  leading software Jack Sparrows (read: pirates) due primarily to the large number of ... Read story »

World's first mod chip for PS3?

Crave Sony has been quite successful in deterring game piracy for its PS3 console so far. However, this may be about to change if a rumored Belzar mod chip turns out to ... Read story »

Will PSPgo keep the pirates at bay?

Crave The PSPgo's embedded battery is a security feature. In recent days, a few blogs have picked up on the fact that the battery on Sony's upcoming PSPgo will be sealed into ... Read story »

Baidu CEO, Robin Li, speaks out

Blogs Robin Li, the co-founder and current CEO of Baidu, the Chinese search engine giant, is--unsurprisingly--a tech superstar. However, we don't get to hear too much from him. So, the Wall Street ... Read story »

Microsoft hit with software sales ban in China

Blogs Microsoft is in hot water in China this week, after a court ruled that it infringed a Chinese company's intellectual property by including certain fonts in its operating systems. The ruling ... Read story »

Software piracy in the Philippines

Blogs The Business Software Alliance (BSA) and the National Bureau of Investigation (NBI) are working very closely to control, minimize or totally eradicate software piracy here in the Philippines. I must say they ... Read story »

Piracy in Brunei under close watch... again

Blogs In the 2009 Special 301 Report, Brunei was described as having the seventh-highest per capita income in the world, but also one of the highest piracy levels worldwide. The report, prepared ... Read story »

How do you feel about piracy and The Pirate Bay case?

Blogs If you've been following what's supposed to be a landmark case against Sweden-based The Pirate Bay, then you would have heard that the prosecution dropped half the charges at the start ... Read story »

A little bit more on piracy and its repercussions

Blogs A good number of folks also threw in their thoughts and we had a bit of a discussion over at my blog regarding my previous post on Anino Games getting caught ... Read story »

YouTube in talks with movie studios to offer film rentals

Crave YouTube wants to offer movie rentals and is in talks with several top movie studios about obtaining licenses to stream feature films on a rental basis. YouTube is discussing the service ... Read story »

Sinobytes--the CNET China tech blog--has landed

Blogs With some trepidation, I am proud to have been handed the reigns of CNET's China tech blog; and with a new blogger comes a new moniker: Sinobytes. The previous writer, Ryan ... Read story »

Anti-piracy measures turning to the court of law

Blogs A second company in Brunei has been charged for using pirated software. Putting aside the usual back-and-forth banter on piracy, the only thing going through my mind is Has it really ... Read story »

Pinoy game dev company gets busted for software piracy--what happens next?

Blogs In case you haven't heard yet, Anino Games Inc, the first commercial game development firm in the Philippines, was raided by the NBI (National Bureau of Investigation) late last month for ... Read story »

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