How investigators tracked down a Modern Warfare 2 cyber pirate Options

[Xbox-Scene]

How investigators tracked down a Modern Warfare 2 cyber pirate Posted by XanTium | November 6 16:30 EST | News Category: Xbox360

From venturebeat.com: [QUOTE] The posting last Thursday on Craigslist was alarming. Someone was selling a Modern Warfare 2 Xbox 360 bundle, with both a console and a game, for $500. The problem was that Modern Warfare 2, one of the most anticipated games of the year, doesn't officially go on sale until Nov. 10. Activision Blizzard, the game's publisher, called in IPCybercrime.com, a Dallas private investigation firm that specializes in online investigations. The investigators tracked down the seller and stumbled into a scheme to pirate the game and sell a bunch of fake copies over the Internet. While the bust led to the arrest of just one hacker among many, it sheds light on the shadowy underground of the business of illegal piracy. It also offers a peak at how investigators try to head off a major piracy disaster before it happens. [/QUOTE] Full Story: venturebeat.com

[frankenberrie]

Busted!

[Asphixiate]

he cracked the code......what the hell are they talking about....

put disk in computer.....open XBC......make sure complete backup is selected.....hit go...name file...done

[crazycrak]

Craigslist, serves them right. "Hacker" LMAO

[HipHopHead]

It also offers a peak at how investigators try to head off a major piracy disaster before it happens. “It all happened very fast,” said Rob Holmes, owner of IPCybercrime. “If these guys get their stuff out, then they can do some major damage to sales and spoil it for everybody. We plug leaks every day, but this was one of the biggest ones of the year.”

Yeah, they sure stopped them pirates. lol

[SDOD616]

Wow, that guy probably wouldn't have gotten busted if he wasn't advertising himself like that. I personally have no pity for him. It is one thing to pirate. But to show it off? That is just an atrocity.

[DaShiZNiT]

Craigslist, serves them right. "Hacker" LMAO

ROFLCOPTER!@!!@$#


haha serves em right

[K1LLERHORNET]

A quote from the original article:

"The investigators identified the culprit as 18-year-old Christian Del Amo, a modder known for selling hacked Xbox 360 hard drives filled with pirated games."

How the hell do you have a 360 hard drive filled with pirated games?

I thought that's not possible due to DRM

This post has been edited by K1LLERHORNET: Nov 6 2009, 11:02 PM

[dreday78]

The modder advertised 250-gigabyte Western Digital hard drives, loaded with 125 hacked games, for $150.

Did I miss a breakthrough or something?

[K1LLERHORNET]

Did I miss a breakthrough or something?

I think it's just sh*tty journalism.

It's probably XBOX1, not 360.

This article is full of fail:

"Meanwhile, the person on the web forum said that he had received a copy of Modern Warfare 2 on Oct. 30. Over the weekend, the hacker went to work on the copy protection built into the DVD disk with the game on it. He cracked the code — something that isn’t that hard for hackers to do these days — and announced that he had done so on Monday."

It took the guy a whole weekend to copy a game XD
I hope that includes upload time.

This post has been edited by K1LLERHORNET: Nov 6 2009, 11:14 PM

[funksoulbrother]

The article is obviously written by someone who doesn't know all the ins and outs of 360 modding and game copying, but man - the guy that was caught was a total n00b. Distributing copies of games on a website that's open for anyone to join is silly enough, but actually putting the email address that's linked to his Facebook account up and asking for PayPal donations - he might as well just have posted his name and address. lol.

I don't see why he would have been in talks with an "underground hologram maker" though, lol, unless he was going to try and make copies that look exactly like originals, then sell them on eBay or Craigslist, knowing that they wouldn't work on unmodded consoles. Either way - what a dumbass.

[parat8t9]

so in the post they mention about selling a 250 gb hard drive loaded with over 125 pirated games on it.... Ummm xbox1 maybe? Unless i'm missing something here.

This post has been edited by parat8t9: Nov 6 2009, 11:11 PM

[micflair]

Yeah, they sure stopped them pirates. lol

yup, just counted the 3.5 thousand people online playing MW2, they did a great job plugging that leak..

[iwanttheagrocrag]

probably selling both xbox1 and 360

[dreday78]

“Hopefully it is a lesson,” said Holmes. “If you try to do piracy on a large scale, you will get caught. When you use the Internet, you always leave tracks somewhere.”

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