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Assassin’s Creed may have been a hugely popular game known for its graphics, but Assassin’s Creed 2 might go down in history as one of the ways copy protection can ruin the gaming experience for those that legally pay for their video games.
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A new report called "Despite Industry Fears, Consumer Spending Cuts Do Not Impact Piracy" released yesterday by Interpret wants to put some of the industry's fears at rest (as hard as that could be) – there’s no real relationship between consumers spending less money and their tendency to engage in file-sharing via p2p networks.
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Publisher and hardware maker Sony is saying that it is looking for a solution similar to the Online Pass initiative introduced by Electronic Arts, designed to guide gamers towards buying more new console games, with some functionality reduced or eliminated for used games sold through networks like that of GameStop.
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The Iranian Research Organization for Science and Technology is directly connected to the Iranian Government. Aside from evaluating and advising policy makers on science and technology issues, the largest research outfit in the country also provides a warez server where Photoshop, MS Office and many other applications can be downloaded for free, totally legal thanks to Iran’s lenient copyright policy.
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Taiwan-based mobile phone maker HTC Corporation, the largest provider of Windows phones around the world, is confident that the upcoming Windows Phone 7 operating system would be successful.
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According to a study just released by security company AVG, Internet users in Russia and Turkey have the greatest chance of being attacked by viruses, with the average chance of a web surfer falling prey to an attack being at one in 10 and and one in 15, respectively.
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