Pirates Sail the Seas of GTA IV
In: Daily News by Edie Sellers
26 Apr 2008Okay, seriously, we know that we’ve been kind of overdoing the Grand Theft Auto IV news thing lately, but in that it is one of the most anticiptated titled of the year and drop time is almost upon us, some news items are just too weird to pass up.
The latest episode of the GTA IV saga erupted this week when pirates (yar!) absconded with a ripped (or at least unauthorized for distribution) copy of the Xbox 360 version of GTAIV and began sending it off to close friends, family, reporters, and just about anyone else who wanted it.
Then things got ugly.
As soon as Microsoft realized someone had horked its game, Steve Balmer dispatched the hounds of hell to find out who did it — and short of that, who had the game.
Curious to know you has a copy? Not hard to find out, as some of the brain surgeons who got their hands on it forgot to disable Xbox Live before they fired it up and their gamertags became available for anyone to see.
What will happen to these people? Not really sure, but I’m going to enjoy watching it happen, won’t you?
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3 Responses to Pirates Sail the Seas of GTA IV
Steve519
April 26th, 2008 at 2:06 pm
several people also got the game early through legit ways too, not just pirated versions. Anytime a big game like GTA4 gets to stores a week in advance, you will have a few copies leaving the stores a tad early
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April 30th, 2008 at 10:18 pm
[...] And he may have uncovered why so many people were seen to be playing GTA IV on Xbox Live before the game’s official drop. And possibly where those illicit pirated copies that circulated torrent sites last week originated. [...]
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May 10th, 2008 at 11:12 am
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