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Last week Sony officially addressed PS3 piracy and PSN bans, and today IGN (linked above) reports that they are forming a PlayStation 3 Anti-Piracy Program and hiring online investigators to assist in protecting their Intellectual Property and overseeing anti-piracy civil lawsuits.

To quote: "Two new job listings posted on SCEA's Web site reveal the company is getting serious about PlayStation 3 software piracy.

Sony is looking for a new Senior Corporate Counsel and a Senior Paralegal for Anti-Piracy and Brand Protection. The main responsibilities include "assessing annual SCEA corporate anti-piracy needs and addressing the needs through developing and implementing an anti-piracy program."

• Senior Corporate Counsel, Anti-Piracy and Brand Protection - Requisition ID 02289
United States - California - San Francisco Bay Area - Foster City

• Senior Paralegal, Anti-Piracy and Brand Protection - Requisition ID 02288
United States - California - San Francisco Bay Area - Foster City

"The program to be developed will require a strong strategic online component (taking input from and working with SCEA Marketing, SCEA Strategic Business Development Latin America and SCEA Product Development)," the listing reads.

The jobs also require "collaborating with other anti-piracy organizations, including those of affiliated Sony Computer Entertainment companies, Sony Corporation and the videogame industry's trade association, the Entertainment Software Association."

Other responsibilities ask for "overseeing anti-piracy civil lawsuits and providing support to law enforcement and intellectual property agencies on behalf of SCEA."

Additionally, one of the requirements is having "knowledge of online investigative practices and online databases (e.g. how to find owner, administrator, ISP associated with a given domain name, etc.)"

Sony recently took famed iPhone hacker George Hotz to court after he and another group of hackers unlocked the PlayStation 3's security and later published the data online.

Since then, homebrew applications to run pirated software have hit the net, and one of Sony's major first-party titles, Killzone 3, was reportedly leaked two weeks before its release."


Source : [url]Www.ign.com[/url]

Interesting Subject, very nice+rep

Standard measures nothing new

Also as long your over the age which you know what your actions can do. Sony can take you to court doubt they will.
Only the people uploading it hit the sharks not the fish first.

Sony can't stop this but are not going to give in. Would be stupid not to try.

Wow this is new

These guys will be looking for people who download copied games. They wont be looking for and suing every person who hacks. They want the ****ers (like me) who are robbing them blind by playing back ups.

When you connect to a torrent and your IP address is broadcast to every other person who also connects to that torrent, all it takes is for one game developer to pay some company to harvest every IP that is using that torrent (and distributing it) then they can contact your ISP and try to prosecute you or at least get them to send you a warning letter.

If they do prosecute dont worry, the methods they use to 'harvest' the IPs of infringers do not not stand up in court. This is because the methods are not reliable and they cannot tell if it was actually you responsible. Their have been several recorded incidences of them getting it wrong, such as wrongly accusing an old couple of downloading gay porn. The only times these companies have taken a case to court is when their was no contesting and the defending person failed to show. So always deny all knowledge, even if they say they have you bang to rights.

You wont be caught on the download anyway. It will be the upload that will be your downfall.

"peer2peer sharing":n: I suggest you join a invite only torrent site that has a private tracker. Donate to become VIP and then you dont need to upload.

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PEACE:y:

nice copy and paste job there (IGN linked above)

Haha this makes me laugh. Come get me Sony!

Sony has ****** up

not once did i say this was my post....i put a source at the bottom for ign

is that all u do ?? talk shit .. who cares if its copied and pasted .. hes simply giving it to NGU