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Review Anthem Review

A big song and dance about nothing.

20-2-19 // 4:15p.m.

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Valve retires Steam's non-gaming video offerings

Wants to concentrate on gamers.

20-2-19 // 11:38a.m.

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Logitech unveils refreshed MX518 gaming mouse

'You asked for it, we did it.'

20-2-19 // 11:08a.m.

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Researchers warn of serious password manager flaws

No more secure than a text file.

20-2-19 // 10:40a.m.

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BitTorrent opens Maelstrom browser alpha

Teases peer-to-peer internet plans.

11-12-14 // 11:50a.m.

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Sony Pictures breach leads to P2P film leaks

Brand-new films hit the torrents.

1-12-14 // 11:27a.m.

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The Hobbit and Game of Thrones are Most Pirated of 2013

TorrenFreak dishes the dirt on the most downloaded torrents this year.

31-12-13 // 1:13p.m.

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Isohunt not working due to technical issue, back soon

Popular torrent list site, Isohunt is down due to a technical issue but will be back soon.

2-7-13 // 4:37p.m.

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Good Old Games: DRM drives gamers to piracy

Gamers are buying games, but then downloading cracked versions to avoid DRM.

11-4-11 // 11:40a.m.

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Ubisoft pirates own soundtrack

Ubisoft has been accused of pirating its own soundtrack, then selling it within a Collector's Edition.

16-3-11 // 3:42p.m.

35

Crytek: PC is still important to us

Crytek has reaffirmed its love of the PC platform in spite of Crysis 2's recent leak.

15-2-11 // 10:47a.m.

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Crytek respond to Crysis 2 leak

Crytek and EA have responded to the leak of Crysis 2, declaring themselves as deeply disappointed.

14-2-11 // 10:42a.m.

57

Killzone 3 leaked

Sony's Killzone 3 for PS3 has been leaked online.

14-2-11 // 10:25a.m.

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CD Projekt to fine Witcher 2 pirates

CD Projekt has announced that it will pursue fines for pirates of The Witcher 2.

23-11-10 // 11:08a.m.

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Trials dev uploaded torrent of own game

RedLynx, the developer of Trials 2, has admitted it uploaded torrents of it's own game to the internet.

9-11-09 // 12:27p.m.

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iPhone devs complain about piracy

iPhone developer Smells Like Donkey has complained about rampant piracy on the platform.

26-10-09 // 12:24p.m.

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Pirated Batman PC contains deliberate glitch

If you're playing Batman: Arkham Asylum from a pirated version then we've got bad news for you...

11-9-09 // 11:46a.m.

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Sony working on UMD porting for PlayStation Go

Sony is working on a way for PSP owners to turn their UMD games into digital versions for the PSP Go.

5-6-09 // 11:38a.m.

15

Demigod has more pirates than customers

According to statistics offered up by Stardock, Demigod has had five times more pirates than actual players in the US.

17-4-09 // 12:14p.m.

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Review Abandonware: The Ethics and Essentials

Abandonware is a complex topic and the legality of it has been the cause for many a court case. In an effort to clear things up we examine the different types of Abandonware, as well as listing some of the best abandonware games that you can currently download.

24-1-09 // 9:47a.m.

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Prince of Persia PC is DRM-free

Ubisoft has officially confirmed reports that the PC version of Prince of Persia will be free of any DRM.

15-12-08 // 10:51a.m.

40

Top 10 torrented games of 2008

TorrentFreak has posted a list of the top ten games which were copied and shared over bit-torrent this year.

8-12-08 // 10:16a.m.

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Fallout 3 already pirated for the Xbox 360

Fallout 3 has been leaked already as a torrent, but only for the Xbox 360 apparently.

10-10-08 // 9:54a.m.

85

µTorrent Mac alpha leaked

A pre-alpha, though largely functional, copy of µTorrent for Mac OS X - based on the popular Windows software - has been leaked, ironically via BitTorrent.

25-9-08 // 9:02a.m.

3

Review QNAP TS-209 II Turbo NAS

Are you looking for a stylish, two disk network storage device that offers RAID support, P2P, HTTP and FTP download managers, DLNA and Gigabit Ethernet. Is it worth spending the fancy cash on QNAP's flashy TS-209 II Turbo NAS? We dived in to find out.

24-9-08 // 8:13a.m.

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Peter Moore warns against suing filesharers

EA's Peter Moore has some ideas about how to battle piracy, namely going against the idea of suing game pirates.

22-8-08 // 9:56a.m.

41

BioShock DRM removed

2K Games has just announced that the SecuROM anti-pirate software included in BioShock has now been completely removed.

20-6-08 // 11:20a.m.

45

Spore Creature Creator leaked

The Creature Creator demo of Spore has been leaked ahead of schedule and is now available online.

16-6-08 // 12:47p.m.

23

How to detect BitTorrent blocking

The Max Planck Institute for Software Systems is running a project designed to gather data on which ISPs block BitTorrent traffic - and you can help.

8-5-08 // 8:13a.m.

16

Piracy 'sales' charts revealed

Indie website RockPaperShotgun has done a breakdown of the top ten pirated games and the number of downloads for each.

6-3-08 // 10:36a.m.

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Illegal downloaders to be cut off by UK ISPs

The UK Government has drafted plans that would demand ISPs to ban users that illegally download music and films.

12-2-08 // 2:31p.m.

230

Pirate Bay facing prosecution

The Pirate Bay, one of the most popular file sharing sites on the web, is now facing prosecution for conspiracy to break the law.

31-1-08 // 6:16p.m.

20

Call of Duty 4 piracy is rampant

The blog of an Activision employee has revealed that Call of Duty 4 piracy is running rampant despite the efforts of developers, possibly damaging PC games as a whole.

17-1-08 // 11:59a.m.

155

Ubuntu now available for Eee PCs

Got yourself a spangly new Eee PC? Well there's already an alternative OS out there if you want to be a little different to everyone else.

13-12-07 // 12:01p.m.

15

Rogers forces own content onto users

A Canadian ISP is trialling a new invasive service that currently lets users know about their current bandwidth use, however the possibilities this service could provide are a little more sinister.

11-12-07 // 12:59p.m.

25

Indie content producer says "piracy ain't so bad"

An independent film producer has spoken out to thank Internet pirates for pushing his little-known film into the limelight.

15-11-07 // 9:27a.m.

15

UK police shut down illegal pig site

Police in Middlesbrough have arrested the man behind Oink.me.uk, one of the world's biggest illegal music file sharing sites.

23-10-07 // 12:35p.m.

41

Free Radiohead album distributed by pirates

Radiohead's latest album was made available over the Internet for as little as fans wanted to pay, which was too much apparently.

18-10-07 // 11:45a.m.

42

Torrent troubles around the world

The torrenting world has taken a couple of major hits this week. First isoHunt blocks US users and then Demonoid goes offline.

26-9-07 // 2:55p.m.

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ThePirateBay files charges against media companies

The latest casualties in the wake of the MediaDefender leak last week might be the companies that hired MD to do their dirty work.

24-9-07 // 10:41a.m.

14

Media Defender emails leak onto Net

What can only be called a case of ultimate irony, Media Defender, a company dedicated to stopping the spread of music and movies on P2P networks, has had internal documents leaked onto the Internet.

17-9-07 // 2:52p.m.

20

BBC iPlayer = Hogware

Shut down the iPlayer? NEVER! Secret background processes continue to hog your Internet connection despite what you tell it to do.

16-8-07 // 4:10p.m.

28

Illegal music downloads hit record levels in UK

Amid an ever increasing amount of lawsuits in the US, UK citizens are downloading more unauthorised music then ever before.

1-8-07 // 12:54p.m.

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