18-Year-Old Modern Warfare 2 Pirate Was Arrested

Reported by Softpedia on Monday, 9 November 2009 (on November 9, 2009)

There are a lot of games that end up on the market well before their official release dates and there's nothing the publishers and developers can do at this point but accept the fact and deal with the losses. Well, Activision will have none of that and has decided to take a hands-on approach on the smuggling business. When an ad for several Modern Warfare 2 Xbox 360 bundles surfaced on Craigslist, the company decided to contact a private investigation firm to deal with the matter. IPCybercrime.com, the Dallas-based firm, responded to the ad and requested to purchase said bundles, but also spotted another ad. The seller claimed to be a stock boy for a major game retailer and the two ads were put together by the company when the two suppliers of pirated Modern Warfare 2 copies were found to be related via a social network. The private eyes gave the information back to Activison that confronted the two “dealers,” whom, faced with reality, decided to give the games back to the retailer's loss-prevention staff. What was a narrow escape for these two was a bit of a more dramatic scenario for Christian Del Amo. The investigators found one of his posts on an Xbox piracy forum, in which he asked people to donate him the funds to purchase one of those “early” MW2 bundles. What would see...

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