Modern Warfare 3 Copy Stolen from California Warehouse
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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TTGxS1M0NPosted:
whattheboy Why would you have the game,but release it in November?Doesn't make sense,they deserved it.Nice avatar
Jamo_GamingPosted:
Lmao this will be on "Mirc" next week if they get disc one
It wont be "P2P" (Non private Download) till november
It wont be "P2P" (Non private Download) till november
StealthPosted:
Netflix Another one of my post used on the Home page, lol..
http://www.thetechgame.com/Forums/t=2419264/mw3-copy-stolen-from-california-warehouse.html
Get over it, you copied and pasted it from another source, therefore nothing was really "used" from you.
Also, it's time to get those games ripped lets go already.
whattheboyPosted:
Why would you have the game,but release it in November?Doesn't make sense,they deserved it.
BuncezPosted:
TTG_PRO_MODZ ARRRRGHHH! I can't find it.....
You wont find it on any torrent/file sharing sites yet, have to look more underground to find it ;)
shadow1Posted:
Are we going to go through a FBI Lawsuit like what the computerhealer had when black ops was a few weeks from launch?
SavesPosted:
FrEezBtake a joke!!.....SnowFuzz omg how you guys find out ..... i stoled it that was fast how news travels
ooo ma god ur so funny
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