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I see the game is already available from Torrent sites! Bastards ... everyone should buy this game.
edit :"With Activision proclaiming next week's launch of Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 2 to be the biggest debut in entertainment history, tech blog VentureBeat has provided a look at the efforts to address pre-release piracy of the highly anticipated game, and how they landed one young hacker in jail.
According to the blog, the story began last week, when an ad for Modern Warfare 2 Xbox 360 bundles surfaced on Craigslist. When Activision spotted the ad, it contacted Dallas-based private investigation firm IPCybercrime.com, which arranged to purchase two such bundles from the seller. IPCybercrime also spotted a separate ad for the bundle with the seller claiming to be a stock boy for a major game retailer, identified the two sellers as friends based on an online social network, and turned their information over to Activision.
Modern Warfare 2 is just the latest in a long line of games to be leaked and pirated before launch.
When confronted by Activision, the two sellers admitted they had swiped a crate of the Modern Warfare 2 systems, and their case was then turned over to the retailer's loss prevention staff. The story might have ended there, if not for one of the sellers' other customers.
IPCybercrime found a post by a user on an Xbox piracy forum asking people to donate money so he could buy one of the Craigslisted bundles, rip the game, and distribute it online. Investigators cross-referenced the user's e-mail address with a Facebook account which had his cell phone number listed, and determined his identity to be 18-year-old Christian Del Amo. They turned the information over to the Miami-Dade police department, who arranged to purchase a pirated copy of the game and bust the hacker in the process.
Christian Del Amo.
Police obtained the game from a "runner," who led them back to Del Amo. The 18-year old was arrested yesterday, and is currently incarcerated in Miami's Turner Guilford Knight Correctional Center. IPCybercrime told VentureBeat that Del Amo was set up to sell thousands of illegal copies of Modern Warfare 2.
According to VentureBeat, Del Amo had a history of piracy, selling modded 250GB Xbox 360 hard drives pre-loaded with 125 hacked games through auction site iOffer.com. At retail, the games could cost thousands of dollars, but Del Amo sold the hard drives for $150.
While an arrest was made in the case, it didn't come quick enough to prevent piracy of the game. Illegal copies of Modern Warfare 2 have been appearing on peer-to-peer file-sharing services since earlier this week, potentially costing publisher Activision thousands of lost sales."
I may have no control over the length of my life, but the depth & width is entirely up to me.
I know someone who sells pirate xboxs and games who says he has had it for 2 weeks and from his descriptions of the game levels I don't think he is bullshitting - he seems to get banned with every wave of bans too. 80 quid the going rate for a modded 360 but with no drive and obviously no online play.
I've been trying to buy it from Play for the last 30 minutes now, but their website craps out when trying to finalize the order. Right now it looks like the overpriced Steam version is the way to go...
£26? Blimey, I feel a fool for preordering really.
More impressions: the single-player campaign is exactly as you'd expect - it's a highlight reel of big showpiece battles and events. I *think* I've done the icky bit, which is a fair bit weird but no worse than anything I've seen in other games. The plot is a bit Tom Clancy wacky though, not sure about it, but the action is relentless. Not played online yet...
I am determined to buy this at midnight, but it seems there might be a hefty premium for doing so... Unless of course the DVD bit of Asda is opening tonight. Argh!
Factory's no place for me, boss man leave me be.
Xbox Live Gamertag/PSN ID: Barbellion
Wii Console Number: 7017 0974 8271 2157
I think I am going straight on line with this, way more excited about another potential 2 years playing the multilayer. don't get me wrong mind love cod4 single player (despite stuck on "No Fighting in he War Room" on veteran )
I am determined to buy this at midnight, but it seems there might be a hefty premium for doing so... Unless of course the DVD bit of Asda is opening tonight. Argh!
I have the exact same stupid urge myself to go down to Gamestaion at midnight, despite paying premium , needing an early night and the fact I could easily pick it up at lunch time on Tue.
Hayho, I suppose I have not been this excited about a game since Halo 3 and GTA 4
Had to un-follow Charlie Brooker's twitterings over this. He was going on and on and on and on and on in the biggest tweet-fest I've ever seen. Got annoying after a while.
Don't know why I followed him in the first place - yes you hate it, yes you hate everything, you're a miserable bastard, we get the message.
Still, looking forward to playing this once I have a bit of spare cash!
I dunno I think he liked it. He certainly bothered to stick with it and complete it last night. He was just giving people tantalising tidbits of info about it as he ploughed through it.
Cloudane wrote:Had to un-follow Charlie Brooker's twitterings over this. He was going on and on and on and on and on in the biggest tweet-fest I've ever seen. Got annoying after a while.
Almost every sleb I've followed has done this at some point - I think the ones that I'm still following got it out of their system before I did.
