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Game Piracy Circa 1984

This little snippet comes from the March 1984 issue of Electronic Fun with Computers and Games, their final issue before changing their name to Computer Fun. The Vidco Cartridge Copier let the user put an Atari 2600 cart into the slot, hit a button, wait a short while, and an instant copy is made. The Copier [...]

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Australian Gamer Out $1.5 Million for Wii Piracy

James Burt was lucky. He snagged a copy of New Super Mario Bros. Wii a week early from a retailer, and in his own words, did something ” very stupid.” To prove he actually had the game to internet friends, he uploaded it to the vast internets, where 50,000 pirating gamers downloaded the game for [...]

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Piracy Hits iPhone Tap-Fu Developer

Just a note: If you’re reading this, and you’ve pirated Tap-Fu or any other iPhone game (or really any game at all for that matter), you’re an asshole. That out of the way, developer Smells Like Donkey posted a fantastic insight into the sales vs. piracy debate and how it affected their small iPhone game. Simply [...]

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