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How private investigators tracked down a Modern Warfare 2 pirate

VentureBeat tells the story of how private investigators used the Internet trail of cyber thieves to track down a pirate who got hold of early disks for Modern Warfare 2, the biggest game of the year.
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Published: 42 days 17 hours ago | News | PlayStation 3 | Xbox 360 | PC
 
 

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Zikron - 41 days 22 hours ago
1 - So the lesson to be learned here…
Don't pirate games on a large scale! Then you won't get caught :)

From the last paragraph of the article: "If you try to do piracy on a large scale, you will get caught."
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terrorofdeath - 41 days 21 hours ago
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When the article said "They conducted a buy-bust sting where Del Amo had sent a “runner” to make the exchange."

I immediately had thoughts of Mirror's Edge. :D
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Rixynator - 41 days 19 hours ago
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let's see how their crack down all the pirates in Asia cause I would love to see that.
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