Modern Warfare 3 Copy Stolen from California Warehouse

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Call of Duty Modern Warfare 3 doesnt come out until Nov. 8. But pirates have already obtained the video game one of the most-anticipated of the year VentureBeat has learned.

The PC version of the game, or at least part of it, has been circulating among pirates in the U.S., who illegally copy and share it without paying Activision Blizzard or its retailers. Thats a big problem, as Activision Blizzard is expected to sell more than 20 million copies of the game in 2011 alone, according to Arcadia Research. That amounts to more than $1.2 billion in sales at retail.

Piracy has always been a problem with video games, especially for PC titles. But the pirates go after Call of Duty because its the big prize. Every year, a cat-and-mouse game ensues. Activision Blizzard closely monitors manufacturing in the weeks leading up to shipment, since it only takes one stolen disk to set off the viral spread of pirated copies. But its hard to stop inside jobs.

Evidently, pirated discs began to spread quickly after an employee at a shipping warehouse (run by a huge shipping company) in Fresno, Calif., stole one disc. Its not clear how many full copies spread this way, as the disc that was stolen was apparently Disc 2 of a two-disk set for the PC. Security may have been too tight for the thief to steal the other disc.

The same course of events happened before last years launch of Call of Duty Black Ops and the year before that with Call of Duty Modern Warfare 2. But sales of the franchise keep climbing.

Investigators are using the same tactics as last year, knocking on doors around the country and asking people nicely to turn over and delete their pirated copies of Modern Warfare 3. Rather than face fines, many complied.

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Source: http://venturebeat.com/2011/10/27/pirated-modern-warfare-3-discs-are-already-spreading-exclusive/

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I-GIFT-GOLDPosted:

I don't understand why would you steal it..... People these days

vokalPosted:

is like a sonapress the one out side of my town makes/press,s xbox games and such they check your pockets rfid too get in and out of the building take your phone and anything else you have and put it in your locker for you and then use a wand too detect if you have any hidden "surprises" on you then you get too go through the metal detector. would be a good trick sneaking a something out though. they you check both ways in and out.

Bebe_RexhaPosted:

Its funny the way they just politely ask them to hand over the copys. They act as if the pirates are 3!

CoderPosted:

Wine Some People These Days.


I Was Thinking That

Green_Zon3Posted:

Wow thats lame dud so like what kind of security do they have LMFAO!!! LOL

TipsPosted:

It would be better if they had gotten both disks and just uploaded TONS of footage.

woopyV2Posted:

Cell -Sigh-

Just another moron trying to be cool.

THERES TO MANY T***S IN THE WORLD

DragonBall-ZPosted:

-Sigh-

Just another moron trying to be cool.

TTG_KeoPosted:

[quote]Investigators are using the same tactics as last year, knocking on doors around the country and asking people nicely to turn over and delete their pirated copies of Modern Warfare 3. Rather than face fines, many complied.

i liked this bit lol

Secondchance92Posted:

J2GDELINQUENT
Ragnarock
-Conversation- I'm getting Very Irratated at this!

Black Ops Disc Stolen!
Now!!!!!
Modern Warfare 3 Disc Stolen!

This crap need's to Stop! Get some money and buy it, instead of stealing it and going to JAIL.

This is Bull ****!

Save up some Money and Buy it instead.


http://speedcap.net/img/1de5bae96d801afec517a0f2b3c5a141/68e8f5ce.png

If someone came and made a copy of your car when you were asleep, and drove off in that copy they made, when you woke up and looked outside your car would still be there, exactly how you left it. Piracy isn't theft, it's piracy.
but the disk was stolen


You don't think they got their disc back by now? they are just trying to stop the copied versions so they can make that extra penny off people.