Fri, Nov 06, 2009 | 23:26 GMT
Police arrest a Modern Warfare 2 cyber pirate in Miami

Looks like a fella who pirated Modern Warfare 2 has been arrested by Miami-Dade County Police.
Christain Del Amo, who just turned 18 in August, was apparently asking for donations in order to purchase a Modern Warfare 2 360 Bundle on CraigsList for $500, that was stolen from a retail chain’s stockroom.
His plan, was to crack the anti-piracy code in order to distribute counterfeit copies of the game making money in the process. Upon seeing his post on a pirating site, Activision contacted IPCybercrime.com to track him down, which they did over Facebook.
Eventually, the kid hacked the code which was apparently not an issue, as he was known as a modder and had a site for selling modded Xbox 360 hard disks. Miami police were contacted by Del Amo’s “runner” with a disc containing the Modern Warfare 2 limited edition image on it, and police since learned he was in discussions with a Hologram maker to help his copies look even more legitimate.
Detectives in LA also rigged a fake deal to buy two of the stolen bundles off of CraigsList for $800 each, and proceeded with an undercover sting operation and busted the seller, who “admitted to having stolen a crate of the bundles from the backroom of a game retail store”.
Turns out there was another guy involved with the bundle stealing bit there as well.
It’s all very Cops and Robbers stuff, and you can read the full thing through VentureBeat.


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#1
blackdreamhunk
06/11/09, 11:29 pm
prooof that there is alck market for consoles games any one want to debate with me agin?
lol
I will also say that consoles games get pirated alot more than pc too.
#2
COG287PR
06/11/09, 11:39 pm
OH SHIIIIIIIIII
#3
Psychotext
06/11/09, 11:51 pm
There’s a black market for console games because people actually want to get their hands on console games BDH…
On topic. Pwnt?
#4
DarkElfa
06/11/09, 11:54 pm
I could give a fuck about this game anymore. The dedicated server thing was one thing but after that interview where they basically said they would make more money with the console version so fuck the PC gamers, I gave up. IW is full of pompous, self-righteous assholes who have bought into their own hype machine.
Will the game rock? Yes, the game will most likely rock but I wouldn’t buy gold from Hitler and I won’t buy a game from douche-bags.
#5
blackdreamhunk
06/11/09, 11:57 pm
more like it just to easy for people to get pc games.
while consoler gamers are not as educated as pc gamers. So they go to the hackers and pirates at cost. while game devs and big companies push their hardware over pc gamers. the more money that them pirates make.
#6
blackdreamhunk
07/11/09, 12:02 am
So Psychotext you call me fanboy huh
funny part is i think your the fanboy.
I don’t haste to trash a site if it has no creadability
like game sites like gamespot!
http://www.joystiq.com/2007/11/30/rumor-gamespots-editorial-director-fired-over-kane-and-lynch-rev/
yea some people can’t handle truth, it’s my calling
in fact i’m the guy sent this game dev crying after this state ment
Molyneux Says PC Gaming Market “In Tatters”
if you want proof I can link it
#7
reask
07/11/09, 12:09 am
Whatever BDH.
It is getting a little tiresome though.
I mean if PC gaming is better fair enough.
I like many on the site I imagine, just like gaming.
Your preferred platform is a personal issue.
Sure I like getting the odd dig in when something negative happens on the other one.
But I mean c,mon here, is the platform really that important?
#8
blackdreamhunk
07/11/09, 12:13 am
your right I am sure alot of gamers are going to stop buying games out right after seeing how ugly some of gaming industry is
then eeople wonder why some people hate big comapnies
people wonder why pc gamer hate big companies.
now you know why some people don’t like the media
I’m done
#9
theevilaires
07/11/09, 12:14 am
Damn he’s going down for sure man.
#10
reask
07/11/09, 12:23 am
It is kinda like a machine really.
You know when you get the options.
Press 1 for sales press 2 for BDH.
Unreal.
#11
scuz
07/11/09, 12:24 am
lol, marketing lol
#12
blackdreamhunk
07/11/09, 12:34 am
Yea i ove this video so much it’s hot lol
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1K9MBxeEqyI
here here here this video is even better
http://g4tv.com/thefeed/blog/post/700461/Sesslers-Soapbox-Adam-Calls-Infinity-Ward-Out.html
#13
Floms
07/11/09, 12:36 am
Dum ass
#14
blackdreamhunk
07/11/09, 12:37 am
it sums up some people in the gaming industry lol
#15
reask
07/11/09, 12:40 am
So is your problem with the gaming industry?
I mean who cares which is better or worse?
I love a good game overall.
If the gfx are nice its a bonus, but gameplay is the thing for me.
#16
davidkenobi
07/11/09, 12:41 am
“which they did over Facebook”. LOL. This guy had been tracked by his Facebook… Poor guy.
#17
Psychotext
07/11/09, 12:50 am
Hey BDH, with all the boycotting you’re doing lately I’d wager I play more PC games than you do.
…and of course, as I’m willing to buy from companies who support consoles it means I also have the superior graphics card (ATI 5870).
#18
theevilaires
07/11/09, 2:28 am
LMFAO i just read the article. This is why facebook and twitter are bad. You guys who use it(the new generation of idiots) are the failure of the future. Only stupid people use those social networks.
Next the government will mandate putting chips under our skin because stupid society thinks its cool they know where their friends are at and what they are doing. Yay for the down fall of humanity!
#19
blackdreamhunk
07/11/09, 4:44 am
A wonderful world we live in I love when the world can see everything
http://www.videogamer.com/news/pc_gamer_market_in_tatters_says_molyneux.html
the gaming industry reminds of hilter and nazi’s for meny reasons reasons
they don’t want to let you know the truth, they like lie alot!
#20
Panipal2005
07/11/09, 5:38 am
‘They like lie alot’
They like, lie? They like lying? They like to be lied TO? What, bdh? What?
#21
JonFE
07/11/09, 9:54 am
I’ve decided to stop feeding the attention-seeking whore; maybe some of you should stop too…
#22
Gekidami
07/11/09, 10:12 am
Could BDH please get the hammer now? I dont think theres a single poster on this site who would be against it.
#23
Redh3lix
07/11/09, 10:12 am
But the PC version of MW2 comses with “CUSTOM control such as mouse and keyboard, and text chat!”
Oh my did I LMFAO!
#24
Captain Fruitloop
07/11/09, 10:26 am
+1 on bdh getting the heave-ho. He has nothing new, interesting or sometimes even legible to say. It’s like Shatner: The Sequel. Every thread he joins in gets derailed by his own personal obsessions and trolling (and trollbait) behaviour.
#25
Bojangles
07/11/09, 10:29 am
Why ban?
What’s wrong with scrolling past comments you don’t want to read?
#26
blackdreamhunk
07/11/09, 12:40 pm
I am going to give more proof
the Indsutry is full of liers and fanboys
they don’t like thw truth the reason threads get derail is not because of me. It’s because Indsutry is full of liers and hating fanboys
any one remeber the force on unleashed for pc
from liucas arts this way before i started to show up
http://pc.ign.com/articles/873/873303p1.html
here is real facts
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=h-j69RnEBAc
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4GPI9xDmRjk
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7Y2nJmKzOVY
there was a petion done it went un noticed too.
you want to see fanboys detrail stuff take very good look at ng4!!!
it’s the very reason you get the gaming industry media trashies pc gaming
pc gaming is dying every year.
#27
blackdreamhunk
07/11/09, 12:45 pm
I don’t give dam if you ban me because I have proven a major point.
I know there is alot pc gamers and people that do agree with me
the gaming Industry is joke
the more pc people teash me, the more I am proving this point.
I glade people all over the world can see this
do you know NAZI’S DO THE MUSSLE THE TRUTH!
I don’t care if you people want to hate me I am going to speak the truth.
you hate me because I speak the truth, you hate me becaue you in fact hate pc gamers and pc gaming.
I see pc gamer getting attack every day on fourms
I aam the first to stand up and say no you wrong.
I am not afraid of you or your lies
any who speaks up for pc gaming in this gaming Industry gets trashed
franlky I am glade people all over the world see this
must of you are full of hot air and can’t prove jack
#28
OlderGamer
07/11/09, 1:00 pm
BDH, I don’t hate you because you hav an opinion. I dislike the way you go about expressing it. Every thread you comment on, its the samething. Even if someone shares the same pov as you, your style would embarass them to the point of not wanting to be seen as agreeing with you. I am not one ot support people being banned. I always feel live and let live. If people don’t like it, they can choose not to read it. However, you tend to derail topics. It becomes hard to comment and chat about something because of your fire and brimestone tactics.
A little bit of you goes a very long ways. Just chill. Having the BDH spice around here can be fun. But your way over doing it right now.
#29
blackdreamhunk
07/11/09, 1:03 pm
why should I have to defend my platform every day
sorry me biggest pet peeve in life is the media that lies
why should I get trashed by game devs every day
why should I trashed by the gaming indsutry every day
the world full of fighters, are you not going to piss one off!!!
every day I see pc gaming or pc gamers get trashed
Even people who have high creadability in pc gaming
I don’t car about your style, my style is truth
#30
Gekidami
07/11/09, 1:06 pm
Schizophrenia much?
#31
OlderGamer
07/11/09, 1:06 pm
Moral of the story(the article, not BDH), Craigslist and Facebook = bad! I am suprised the kid didn’t Twitter it as went along. That would have been classic.
His Twitter:
-I got it!
-Opening this bad boy up.
-wow.
…
-Almost got it. I am so good.
-Wait, there is a knock at the door …
#32
OlderGamer
07/11/09, 1:09 pm
I think a unhealthy dose of paranoia too.
#33
blackdreamhunk
07/11/09, 1:09 pm
Schizophrenia much?
i am done
you people are not hare to debate
you not hear to talk about game either
your full grabage just like infinty ward and some other game devs.
your must of you are full hot air
I am done
#34
blackdreamhunk
07/11/09, 1:14 pm
here is very nice article
http://kotaku.com/5399116/a-week-in-comments
#35
Gekidami
07/11/09, 1:15 pm
I thought you were done?
#36
blackdreamhunk
07/11/09, 1:17 pm
I was until you talk agin, you want to go another round with me
I see alot of air these days the world is full of just talk.
#37
Gekidami
07/11/09, 1:19 pm
But you said ‘you were done’ then double posted. No one else said anything. Apart from maybe one of the voices in your head…
#38
Dimacorgan
07/11/09, 1:25 pm
… is that for real? Are you fuckin kidding me?
#39
Jadeskye
07/11/09, 1:31 pm
But the Xbox 360 version of MW2 leaked almost a week ago…
Why would he want to crack it when it’s already been done?
#40
Psychotext
07/11/09, 1:46 pm
The 250gb HDD Jadeskye, that’s what he wanted it for. Now they can use the standard WD drives and flash them for use on the 360.
#41
stvw74
07/11/09, 1:59 pm
paranoia? .. where!? lolz
Jeez BDH, change the frakkin’ record won’t ya ..
irksome to say the least ..
VG247 mods .. please do something, I’m beginning to resent visiting the site, sorry
#42
blackdreamhunk
07/11/09, 2:17 pm
hey stvw74
how is your nazi trainig camps doing these days
your proving my point for me
what the truth hurts ahahahahahahaha
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SJMIzpkbChE
looks like the gaming industry and it’s media is heading that way
#43
Psychotext
07/11/09, 2:54 pm
Seek psychological help BDH.
#44
blackdreamhunk
07/11/09, 3:02 pm
Psychotext
I will do that people learn how to take truth and facts.
oh wait your one of them
Oh by the way really have nice day
I am going to have nice day.
#45
freedoms_stain
07/11/09, 3:09 pm
Bdh – “why should i have to defend my platform every day”
You don’t have to, and most of the time you aren’t, you’re trolling in threads not even remotely related to PC gaming. You’re complaining about lack of debate? Seriously? You whose sole tactic is to swamp the thread with a mass of barely relevant links (some of which actually counter your argument) and engage in Nazi-comparisons (aka the last ditch effort of the losing party)?
Somebody hammer this fool. Preferably with a real one rather than a ban one.
#46
OlderGamer
07/11/09, 3:11 pm
I must admit, it almost seems like he is asking to be banned. He is like that energizer bunny, he keeps going and going and going.
#47
blackdreamhunk
07/11/09, 3:13 pm
this is coming from you, from some one with lack of proof or hot air.
90% of the time people can’t even answer my quesstions
sure I am wrong on some sunjects, if I am wrong I am not scared to admit I am wrong.
the facts are in their face, and some people fight thin air if they could.
#48
Stephany Nunneley
07/11/09, 3:13 pm
OMG. Sigh. I am late to the party because of the time difference, but the fact of the matter is this: If there is a demand for a product, there will be black market versions of it made.
It does not matter if it is a game for PC or console; fake Gucci purses, Jimmy Choo boots, or counterfeit prescription drugs – just to name a few.
No need to get into an argument over what game system you prefer over the subject because it does not matter what the product is for crying out loud. The blackmarket thrives because most people do not want to pay full dollar value for a designer item, because having said purse, jeans or shoes is a stupid status symbol to your peers.
It is the exact same thing in the case of gaming. You have those who are not patient enough to wait for it to come out legitimately because the person in question purchasing it is 85% of the time willing to pay $God for something JUST so he can show his friends what a “cool dude” he is and feel he is superior because of it. Then, you have those on the other end of the spectrum who honestly want to play the game but cannot afford it, so they go to torrent sites and get it for free.
It would not matter if the game in question was $5 though – someone would pirate it and put it on the web for free.
It will never end because there is no way to stop it 100%. Human beings are industrious mammals and whether it is for good or ill they will always find a way.
Edit: One more thing. The situation is bad for BOTH sides of gaming, PC and Console. It hurts both equally so to argue over it affecting one over the other or trying to prove it spells doom and gloom for one particular side is just preposterous. It’s doom and gloom on both ends. It’s all bad mmm’kay?
One last thing: If PC gaming were to die, or console gaming were to die – which neither really is at this point, would that be a GOOD thing? Seriously. What makes anyone think either one would be good thing to laugh and point and say “I told you so” because of it? All it would do is hurt gaming, gamers, and the world economy in some form. Would it make Xbox 360′ers happy to see developers stop supporting the PS3 or vice versa? Would anyone really wish that on someone who owns a console or PC for that matter? Would that make those who wish it feel better about themselves as a person and make things in life all rainbows and unicorns? Would it honestly make your life better? If so, seek help now. A true gamer would not wish the decline of any system. Period. All are equal and serve a purpose to someone.
There. I am done, because all comments like this (“while consoler gamers are not as educated as pc gamers”) are doing is pissing me off.
#49
freedoms_stain
07/11/09, 3:23 pm
And what lack of proof or hot air are we talking about here? The ficticious kind?
#50
Psychotext
07/11/09, 3:23 pm
“I will do that people learn how to take truth and facts.”
After your performance in the ActiBlizz news item I’d have thought you’d want to avoid facts as much as humanly possible. You certainly managed to avoid them when they didn’t suit your agenda.
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