Rockstar got BUSTED for selling pirated games... again
522Whoda thunk that the studio known the world over for their crime simulator GTA would, themselves, be practicing criminals? It seems Rockstar Games, the lazy, malignant, and increasingly unproductive studio behind Red Dead Redemption and Grand Theft Auto have been selling pirated copies of their own games through Steam for over a decade. Today, we'll discuss how this surprising revelation is not surprising at all and is, in fact, standard operating procedure for the corrupt and immoral video game industry.
Links and resources:
https://www.techworm.net/2023/09/rockstar-selling-cracked-version-of-games-on-steam.html
https://arstechnica.com/gaming/2021/02/take-two-dmca-takes-down-reverse-engineered-gta-source-code/
https://www.rockpapershotgun.com/max-embarassment-max-payne-2-steam
https://twitter.com/__silent_/status/1698345924840296801
https://www.law.cornell.edu/uscode/text/17/1201
https://en-americas-support.nintendo.com/app/answers/detail/a_id/55888/~/intellectual-property-%26-piracy-faq#s2q6
https://www.eurogamer.net/did-nintendo-download-a-mario-rom-and-sell-it-back-to-us
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-- Chapters --
00:00 - Introduction
00:35 - The Inciting Incident
01:31 - Rockstar has been selling illegal copies of their own games
02:23 - A little history lesson
02:48 - Windows Vista breaks Manhunt
04:20 - Let's break down the allegations
05:45 - It looks like Rockstar is breaking the law
06:59 - But it's not just Rockstar
Is Piracy Killing Gaming or Saving It? The Irony of Rockstar Games
How Rockstar was just BUSTED for distributing pirated games.
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