Modern Warfare 2 Pirate Arrested

[CptainCrunch]

I thought this article from shacknews would interest a number of you, especially how much PC is pirated:

A report in VentureBeat tells a tale of software piracy in our own backyard, and its serious consequences.
Eighteen-year-old Christian Del Amo was arrested by Miami-Dade police officers yesterday after allegedly attempting to sell pirated copies of Modern Warfare 2.

On October 30, Activision Blizzard hired online investigation firm IPCybercrime to look into suspicious posts on Craigslist advertising Modern Warfare 2 Xbox 360 bundles for sale, roughly a week and a half before their release date.

Posts in the piracy forums on xbox360iso.com seemed to indicate that Del Amo had obtained a copy of the game and cracked the copy protection this past weekend. The fact that pirated digital release copies of Modern Warfare 2 hit the torrent sites the next day doesn't seem like mere coincidence.
Investigators used social networking sites, user posts in online piracy forums, and several sting operations to identify those involved in the pirating operation, which ultimately lead to Del Amo's arrest yesterday.

Prior to this run-in, Del Amo had a site for selling modified Xbox 360 hard drives loaded with pirated software. For just $150, he'd sell you a 250GB Western Digital hard drive containing 125 pirated games.

"We plug leaks every day," said Rob Holmes, owner of IPCybercrime, "but this was one of the biggest ones of the year."

Be sure to click that report link as well. it has a very good article with more background information.

After all the leaks with Modern Warfare 2, do you think this will bring attention that the consoles may be just as heavily pirated as its PC counterpart? Will it make any difference or is PC still the pirate scapegoat?

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[CptainCrunch]

Also want to remind everyone up front about talking about pirating games yourselves or how to, as it will earn you an infraction and possibly a ban.

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[The_Eliminator]

Interesting article and although im not saying it doesnt matter, but he is only one of thousands they will have to stop.

[Immortal_Joker]

Read this on Gamespot before goin to bed last night

[Rogue Warrior]

Well, Certain people over at Infinity Ward are stubborn at changing their minds, even though the evidence is clearly in front of them, But Robert and Vince willl still put the blame on the PC users, I wonder what the d/load count is at now?

[groundedzero]

I'm glad that punk got arrested. But The_Eliminator speaks the truth, arrest one and two more will appear the next morning...

[Wizrdwarts]

Come on, selling pirated games? I think he deserves it.

[garandx]

Pirating fail.


This: [media]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZLsJyfN0ICU[/media] Except for the live free part now.

[ch3ch3n]

Pirating fail.


This: [media]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZLsJyfN0ICU[/media] Except for the live free part now.

i dont know what goes true your mind to search this vid on youtube creapy

[RYKUU]

That video is from that Lazy town show XD.

Well the guy deserves being arrested, i know people which pirate and find it quite disrespectful. Companies spend time and A LOT of money making games for us and people go and do this. I think what got this guy was trying to sell them.

[Chris_Redfield]

Having conversations about how PC really is the dominant platform for software piracy is getting tiresome. Somehow I see around myself, and every PC gamer living in the 1st world countries seem to have somesort of illusions about how piracy doesnt exist, or is in marginal (10% is the popular one) numbers. I should probably write a lenghty paper on this and link to it every time people claim that PC platform is merely used as a "scapegoat" or that the accusations of the platform being a petri dish for software theft are baseless.

Hmm.

[Mavrik347]

Yarrr!!! I lol'd

[Minmaster]

what's his punishment? playing the game?