Posts Tagged “piracy”
Megaupload Shut Down For Piracy – Proof That We Don’t Need SOPA or PIPA?
Fox News has just reported that the Federal Bureau of Investigation has shut down Megaupload.com and charged it’s “ringleaders” with racketeering, conspiracy to commit copyright infringement, money laundering and other charges related to violating piracy laws. So this begs the question, “Why do we need SOPA again?” Read On »
News for Tuesday, October 19th
AT&T Offering Free Month of Zune Pass With Win7 Phone
AT&T Wireless is offering a 30-Day trial of Zune Pass with the purchase of a Win7 Mobile Phone. Dubbed the “Entertainment Pack”, you also get access to 30 days of AT&T’s Uverse services, as well as ilomilo, a new, cutesy Xbox Live game.
Best Buy Still Doesn’t Have Any New 250GB Slim/Kinect Bundles?
Apparently Best Buy is still having issues with procuring the $399 Xbox 360S Bundle with Kinect for pre-order. With Microsoft stating that this is a bigger launch than that of the 360, you have to wonder exactly how many units have been pre-ordered, since the 360 only had 400,000 units available when it launched in 2005.
Source: BestBuy
Kinect To Launch With 17 Titles This November
Looks like the guys over at Wired UK have gotten the up-to-date launch list for Kinect this November. Not much has changed with the exception of a couple more games from Konami. With all of the sports and fitness games releasing at launch, there are going to be a lot of skinnier geeks this coming spring.
Source: Wired UK
Call of Duty: Black Ops Stolen From The Presses?
Apparently, some guy (or gal) in Alabama swiped a few copies of COD: Black Ops from the presser not too long ago. Shortly thereafter, the enterprising thief sold the copies to a few upstanding gentleman on some of the forum sites dedicated to cracking and copying software. One person in particular, “Ungodly Leaker”, who was responsible for the leaking of Halo: Reach apparently had posted that they received a copy as well.
With almost 1.8 million pre-orders placed, this looks to be yet another very hot download for the less than ethical gamer.
Halo: Reach Stats Updated By Bungie
Bungie released updated statistics on gameplay and matchmaking this last Friday. Some interesting numbers:
If only the real world economy was based on Halo dollars…
Source: Bungie.net