Activision have taken three known videogame pirates to court as a consequence to copying and sharing games including Call of Duty 3 across file-sharing networks.
Two of the pirates have already agreed to fines for their crimes which included $100,000 USD for Shawn Guse and $25,000 USD from Chris Hyman, for their roles in copying and distributing copies of COD3 and Tony Hawks Project 8 on both the Wii and Xbox 360.
Two of the pirates have already agreed to fines for their crimes which included $100,000 USD for Shawn Guse and $25,000 USD from Chris Hyman, for their roles in copying and distributing copies of COD3 and Tony Hawks Project 8 on both the Wii and Xbox 360.
Source: XboxOz360Gamer
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Shawn Guse is trying to censor news that he is a thief. He sent me this email: "My name is Shawn Guse and you have my name posted on your web site without my permission and I want it removed or changed to “A Washington man”, and I also want the link to the settlement removed if you have one. Please don’t contribute to the crucifixion of my name. If you are so kind as to remove the whole article that would be great. I have contacted many other web sites that are posting this and they are gladly removing it due to my request."
So I have written another article about him: http://www.bruceongames.com/2008/09/25/shawn-guse-software-thief/
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