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Canadian authorities seize $200,000 worth of pirated games in raid

The RCMP (Royal Canadian Mounted Police) have seized 7000 pirated video games from a 35-year old Saskatoon man's residence and charges are currently pending.

RCMP officials say, if sold authentically, the games would be worth $200,000.



The citizen had his house raided following an investigation "into intellectual property crime offences," adds the police.

More specifically, the authorities were looking into the sale of gaming consoles that were modded to be able to play pirated games.

The man had been advertising the modded consoles via online ads.

Authorities noted that the plethora of games and consoles including systems from Nintendo, Sony, Sega, and Microsoft.

Written by: Andre Yoskowitz @ 26 Oct 2010 18:00

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• 11 comments

• Hyasuma

  what an idiot....why would you advertise this online?
  

  26.10.2010 18:09 #1

• ROMaster2

  Intellectual monopoly strikes again!

  26.10.2010 18:17 #2

• biglo30

  Such a clown if you know what you are doing is illegal why would you advertise it online?
  

  26.10.2010 19:09 #3

• Mysttic

  This article is a bit misleading: in Canada its legal to sell modded systems, however it's not legal to sell copyrighted works of any sorts. What this article missed was that the suspect was installing the unauthorized software into the consoles. So example a ripped copy of Fallout 3 onto the 360 drive; and then offered other copied games, probably at a discounted rate than full retail price. Still illegal. These are the people that piss me off the most, especially too since this is in my own country.
  
  This is nothing compared to the Markham store bust outside Toronto, where hundreds of thousands of material was busted selling in retail stores of a Chinese mall outlet. Still either way it makes me sad, because these assholes that do this are also a cause for game prices being ridiculously high.

  26.10.2010 19:37 #4

• KillerBug

  "Authorities noted that the plethora of games and consoles including systems from Nintendo, Sony, Sega, and Microsoft."
  
  Sega? People are still buying the Dreamcast?

  26.10.2010 22:44 #5

• Mysttic

  Quote:Sega? People are still buying the Dreamcast? And the Saturn as well.

  26.10.2010 22:56 #6

• biglo30

  Originally posted by KillerBug: "Authorities noted that the plethora of games and consoles including systems from Nintendo, Sony, Sega, and Microsoft."
  
  Sega? People are still buying the Dreamcast? Baffles me... they could just get an emulator.
  

  27.10.2010 01:29 #7

• juventini

  I guess the War of Drugs has been won.
  

  Forza Juve!!

  27.10.2010 09:43 #8

• bhetrick

  Originally posted by juventini: I guess the War of Drugs has been won. I don't remember reading anywhere that investigations in to other types of crime; ie drugs, murder, midget slavery, have been put on hold so authorities can focus solely on ip theft.
  
  So what does your comment mean?
  

  27.10.2010 13:19 #9

• juventini

  With so much crime and its complexities, where do enforcement agencies get time to solve Hollywood's problems. That's why a made a sarcastic remark like "The Ware on Drugs has been won". Sarcastic remark :)
  

  Forza Juve!!

  27.10.2010 13:38 #10

• dEwMe

  Just another case of greed biting ya in the end...
  
  

  Just my $0.02,
  
  dEwMe
  

  27.10.2010 13:42 #11