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Microsoft Responds to Modern Warfare 2 Piracy - briefly
(hx) 07:07 PM CET - Nov,04 2009 - Post a comment / read (17)
CGV has posted a statement from Microsoft following the news that leaked ISO's of both the PC and Xbox 360 version of Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 2 are hitting torrent sites: "Our commitment to combating piracy and support safer and more secure gameplay for the more than 20 million members of our Xbox Live community remains a top priority," said MS when we contacted it regarding the leak.

"All consumers should know that piracy is illegal and that modifying their Xbox 360 console to play pirated discs violates the Xbox Live terms of use, will void their warranty and result in a ban from Xbox Live. The health of the video game business depends on customers paying for the genuine products and services they receive from manufacturers, retailers, and the third parties that support them," added MS.

"We take vigorous action against illegal activity related to our products and services, but we do not comment on those details. Consumers should be aware that piracy is illegal and that modifying their Xbox 360 to play pirated games will void their warranty."
They've yet to invent a copy-protection scheme to prevent a worker at a duplication plant from slipping a disc into his coat pocket :-)

last 10 comments:

Ozieo	(07:31 PM CET - Nov,04 2009 )
Heh, last line is so true :D

Penetreitor	(07:48 PM CET - Nov,04 2009 )
Okay, I'll not buy a XBOX then... Video games companies earns huge money (more than movie pictures), even with piracy. Instead sell a game for $40, sell it for $5 and nobody will get pirated copies, and I can bet they will earn more money.

Ozieo

(08:44 PM CET - Nov,04 2009 )

Penetreitor>
Video games companies earns huge money (more than movie pictures), even with piracy.

Instead sell a game for $40, sell it for $5 and nobody will get pirated copies, and I can bet they will earn more money.
That's only a matter of time, video games are still in their puberty compared to the movie industry.
In movie-land, people have come to a stage that they refuse to longer swallow cheap brainless computer crap, dumping some robots in it, and over-animating the thing on their stupid computers, producing brainless, storyless, computerized shit, and expect, when they will put a slutty actrice in it, the people will love it. Those days are over, and Good GOD, it sure was getting time !

In about 10 years, people will start to refuse buying games that do not work as they should out-of-the-box, some already do now, but the numbers are negligible, in 10 years they will not.

On the other hand it's not all the producers fault, If I want to buy a particular console game in Belgium/France I have to spend â‚¬80 while In England I would spend â‚¬25.

It's all too easy to pinpoint piracy onto the end-user, it will keep on backfiring at them until they finally admit what the real problems are.

ykazka

(09:30 PM CET - Nov,04 2009 )

I like this game. A lot. You can call me stupid, but i will wait till its official release, i will buy it, and i will play. When a good game comes out-it deserves to be bought. Some shitty overmarketed crap - (one look at the game footage trailer is usually enough)- i won't even bother downloading a demo.
I think the devs deserve my money for this game--thank you, great work.

BUT--fuck you Microsoft!!! If i buy a car, a pc, an xbox--i can do whatever i want with it. Warranty? -- A new version of xbox will probably come out before the warranty expires anyway.

Microsoft - shame on you.

Tom

(09:53 PM CET - Nov,04 2009 )

People don't pirate games to hurt companies in first place. It's not their goal. People do it because it's fun, it's a hobby, it's a challenge.

Whether the game is $5 or not, piracy will always be around. Any company that uses piracy as an excuse for sales, clearly there are other problems with their product they don't want to accept or believe. People pirate applications that are shareware and are only $5, there's keygen's, replacement .exe, serials whatever.

Ya, some movies cost a lot but games do too. As an example GTA IV cost over $100 million. Paranormal Activity movie cost $15K to make, it's raked in over $100 million. Games typically cost 2/5/10 million to produce and a lot of the time this is just development costs, not marketing or publishing costs factored in.

I don't believe at all that that selling a game for $5 is going to stop piracy. That's just someone talking without knowing what they are talking about which seems to happen here a lot.

sikapossu	(10:54 PM CET - Nov,04 2009 )
there is no pirate pc version out just xbox 360 version only

heretic	(11:22 PM CET - Nov,04 2009 )
sikapossu> there is no pirate pc version out just xbox 360 version only http://thepiratebay.org/torrent/5145275/Modern_Warfare_2_PC_Version

sikapossu	(11:42 PM CET - Nov,04 2009 )
someone is sharing none working iso and there is no working crack even out

Koogle

(02:04 AM CET - Nov,05 2009 )

"People don't pirate games to hurt companies in first place. It's not their goal. People do it because it's fun, it's a hobby, it's a challenge. "

"I don't believe at all that that selling a game for $5 is going to stop piracy. That's just someone talking without knowing what they are talking about which seems to happen here a lot."

Sounds like you don't actually, ya nub!

""We take vigorous action against illegal activity related to our products and services, but we do not comment on those details. Consumers should be aware that piracy is illegal and that modifying their Xbox 360 to play pirated games will void their warranty." "

No fucking wonder their shit brick, breaks down so much.

th4t1guy	(06:20 AM CET - Nov,05 2009 )
Koogle> Sounds like you don't actually, ya nub! No fucking wonder their shit brick, breaks down so much. Can you retype all that in English?

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