Top 10 signs your platform hasn't been pirated (£600k worth of PS3 games stolen)

[Arwin]

I'll skip straight to number one:

http://www.gamasutra.com/php-bin/news_index.php?story=20430

$1.1 Million Worth Of PlayStation 3 Games Stolen
£600,000 ($1.1 million) worth of PlayStation 3 games are missing in the UK after being stolen twice -- first from their shipping driver, and then again from the Leeds police's "secure" depot.

 

[slider]

Shame we don't know what the games were. If it was thousands of copies of Lair...

(Yes, I went there.)

 

[Shifty Geezer]

The stolen games are comprised of seven shipping pallets, including Rockstar Games' Grand Theft Auto IV and 16,000 units of Ubisoft's Brothers In Arms: Hell’s Highway

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[slider]

All it took was a click of the link. Damn my laziness. I'll get my coat.

I wonder how they'll shift so many units? The only time I've come across game theft is when some punk kid wants a game for himself.

 

[obonicus]

All it took was a click of the link. Damn my laziness. I'll get my coat.

I wonder how they'll shift so many units? The only time I've come across game theft is when some punk kid wants a game for himself.

Is there a British ebay? Look out for unusually cheap copies of GTA4.

 

[slider]

Is there a British ebay? Look out for unusually cheap copies of GTA4.

Yeah there is, that'd be my first port of call. But I was puzzled over the volume... surely they can't be that easy to shift. Although as an alternative to selling online all you'd really need, I guess, is an unscrupulous retailer.

 

[Tchock]

Maybe these will go on to woot.com like those stolen nVidia cards did.

 

[eastmen]

The bluray drive is certianly helping. dunno how much longer that will last asthey are relasing faster drives and the media is getting cheaper.

 

[vazel]

Yeah there is, that'd be my first port of call. But I was puzzled over the volume... surely they can't be that easy to shift. Although as an alternative to selling online all you'd really need, I guess, is an unscrupulous retailer.

Isn't selling stolen goods to retailers what crime syndicates have been doing for decades?

 

[slider]

Isn't selling stolen goods to retailers what crime syndicates have been doing for decades?

I don't know why but I'd (mistakenly) got it into my head that this was an opportunist theft by youngsters; probably because I;d referred to my previous experince with "game theft". Sigh.

 

[vazel]

Speaking of retailers buying stolen goods. http://www.edge-online.com/news/gamestop-clerks-knew-they-were-buying-stolen-games