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Call of Duty: Black Ops the Most Pirated Game of the Year 5

Posted by Soulskill on Thursday December 30, 2010 @07:06AM from the five-button-discount dept.

Torrentfreak reports that after calculating download frequency for pirated copies of popular video games, Call of Duty: Black Ops has won the dubious honor of being the most pirated game of 2010. The PC version of the game was torrented roughly 4,270,000 times, and the Xbox 360 version was downloaded an additional 930,000 times. (The most pirated Wii game was Super Mario Galaxy 2, and Dante's Inferno somehow managed to accrue the most downloads of Xbox 360 games.) Fortunately for Activision, the game has still made over $1 billion in sales, and its 20,000,000+ players have racked up over 600,000,000 man-hours of play time since the game's launch in early November.

Comment Re:To me, it's a question of mobility. (Score 5, Insightful) 572

by shinobiX on Saturday May 01, 2010 @11:46PM (#32061156) Attached to: FSF Response To Steve Jobs's Letter

actually its more like only allowing you to buy groceries from the place that sold you the refrigerator!

Comment Re:double? no! quadruple! (Score 1) 367

by shinobiX on Tuesday November 17, 2009 @05:28PM (#30135224) Attached to: Making Old Games Look Good On Modern LCDs?

going from 1x1 to 2x2 is indeed quadruple the resolution, its still only 2x2, not 4x4, 1280x960 is quadruple the resolution of 640x480 and available on most lcd monitors, he just wants to double the width and hight.

Submission + - UK to 'spy' on all calls, emails, & web search (telegraph.co.uk)

Submitted by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday November 11, 2009 @09:59AM

An anonymous reader writes: All telecoms companies and internet service providers will be required by law to keep a record of every customer’s personal communications, showing who they have contacted, when and where, as well as the websites they have visited. Despite widespread opposition to the increasing amount of surveillance in Britain, 653 public bodies will be given access to the information, including police, local councils, the Financial Services Authority, the ambulance service, fire authorities and even prison governors.

Submission + - Linux apps invade Windows Visual Studio (techworld.com)

Submitted by superapecommando on Wednesday November 11, 2009 @07:48AM

superapecommando writes: Novell has released a Mono-based plugin for Visual Studio that gives developers a debugger to help them use Windows to design applications that will run on Linux.
In addition, Novell is integrating its Suse Studio Online, which lets users build custom distributions of Linux so they can package their applications on an appliance loaded with a Linux operating system.
Mono Tools for Visual Studio is a plugin for Microsoft's integrated development environment (IDE). The plug-in lets developers use Visual Studio to write and maintain applications that can run on Windows, Linux, Mac and Unix platforms.

Submission + - 40 years of Multics, 1969-2009 (cio.com.au) 1

Submitted by gribll on Wednesday November 11, 2009 @05:41AM

gribll writes: This piece of history may interest the Slashdot crowd. October 2009 marked an important milestone in the history of computing. It was exactly 40 years since the first Multics computer system was used at MIT. The interview is with Multics co-developer, MIT Professor and Turing Award winner Fernando J. Corbato. Multics (Multiplexed Information and Computing Service) is regarded as the foundation of modern time-sharing systems. Multics was the catalyst for the development of Unix and has been used as a model of operating system design since its release four decades ago. There is also a picture gallery of Multics' history. How can us modern-day Linux and BSD lovers not pay homage to the grand daddy of time-sharing operating systems.

Submission + - MPAA wants to turn off analog ports on TV asks FCC (consumerist.com) 1

Submitted by suraj.sun on Tuesday November 10, 2009 @06:48PM

suraj.sun writes: The Motion Picture Association of American wants to rent movies to TV viewers earlier in the release window, but they don't want anyone potentially streaming that video out to other appliances. That's why last week they went back to the FCC to once again ask for the power to disable analog ports on consumer television sets.

This capability is called selectable output control or SOC, and the FCC banned it back in 2003. SOC would allow "service operators, such as cable companies, to turn off analog outputs on consumer electronics devices, only allowing digital plugs" such as HDMI. The MPAA is arguing that if they could directly turn those plugs on and off, they could offer more goods to consumers.

But that's not what over a dozen public interest groups think, notes Home Media Magazine:

Groups including Public Knowledge, the Digital Freedom Campaign, the Electronic Frontier Foundation, the Consumer Federation of America and the Media Access Project, are fighting the MPAA over the request, saying it puts control of privately owned consumer electronics into the hands of the movie industry, hurts TiVo and Slingbox owners, and leaves out consumers who own TVs without digital connections.

Consumerist : http://consumerist.com/5400626/mpaa-asks-fcc-for-control-of-your-tvs-analog-outputs

Submission + - Epic Fail?

Submitted by sirgoran on Tuesday November 10, 2009 @02:51PM

sirgoran writes: About a month ago the company I work for had a hard disk fail. It was sent to a Disaster Recovery company to try to get back whatever they could from the failed hardware. Total cost to our company was $5,000 for the service. Well yesterday we got the results back from the Recovery Company. One small problem, the data they sent, wasn't ours. So far we have not gotten our data and have not yet heard if our data left their offices and was sent to someone else.

I wanted to ask the slashdot crowd what they think our next step should be, and has anything like this ever happened to someone else and how did they handle it.

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