It is said to have originated in the oceanic pirating era of the 1600s in the Caribbean Sea near nations such as Jamaica, where it first came into common usage. At the time, guns were just adopting the invention of the flintlock, which came about in the 1680s, and they took a long...
This photo from the movie “Amélie” is synonymous with piracy, as FitGirl uses it as their profile picture What are Repacked Games? Repacked games, generally termed “repacks” are games that have been compressed for the purpose ofinstallation for gaming PCs runningWindows. They have a smaller...
I guess most people today think of bootlegging and they think of pirating DVD’s and movies off the Internet. I, however, think of something totally different. Of course, this is probably due to the simple fact that I know people who are actually referred to as ‘bootleggers’ because th...
Regions are just another protectionist effort by the film and game industry designed to stop pirating. If they would pull their brains out of the dark hole between their cheeks, they would see that if they lowered their selling cost, people would not need to pirate jack snot. DVDs are less...
so I had to connect my laptop to the TV with an HDMI cable. An antenna was also essential—rather than thenice-to-have elementit is now—and renting DVDs was the most economical way to watch certain shows without pirating them. (And if we’re being honest, I did a little of that ...
The movie and music industry has taken a strong stand against illegal downloads and pirating. Downloading a movie from a DVD, even for some forms of personal use, is a violation of copyright law and carries hefty penalties. The work recorded onto a DVD is intellectual property; thus, you ...
So what, you say? With this flurry of activity, what does this mean for you? End-users of pirate streaming sites could be in legal trouble themselves. You may remember Popcorn Time. Several of their end-users weresued by filmmakers for damages up to $150,000. Recently, a British univers...
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How about pirating? Do I really need to cover all the strategies people have for beating the system so that they do not have to pay for a game, even if they enjoyed it? Comparatively, very few people will actually support the developer on principle. When criticized...
PSB: How does PS4 factor into PlayStation Studios’ development vision? Is it still a focus internally for future game development? Hermen: It very much is. You can’t build a community of over 110 million PS4 owners and then just walk away from it, right? I think that’d be bad ne...