SCEA slaps lawsuit against PSP pirates on Craigslist
For shame! All this, right after hearing about the new anti-piracy law yesterday? Yeouch. Looks like these guys just got a golden ticket to a life of misery. We hear that SCEA filed a lawsuit against some PSP pirates hawking their wares on Craigslist and offering “to ‘mod’ or ‘unbrick’ PSP consoles so as to allow illegal unauthorized copies of SCEA’s video game software.”
Via GamePolitics, we hear that, last August, SCEA filed a lawsuit against some PSP pirates hawking their wares and services on Craigslist. The two alleged culprits are both from San Jose, California: Timothy Joey Zoucha Jr. and Gabriel Garcia. A court hearing is scheduled for late October.
The preliminary statement of the filed complaint (see Via link below) reads that the two of them:
[…] brazenly offer their services on Craigslist.org to “mod” or “unbrick” PSP consoles so as to allow illegal unauthorized copies of SCEA’s video game software to operate on the unlawfully modified PSP console.
The rest of the complaint talks of how investigators were sent to check out how these two guys operate. Much to say, they were caught red-handed.
The story goes that the culprits modified the investigators’ PSP units and loaded illegally copied games (Patapon, God of War, and Crisis Core just to name a few) as a package deal. One of the investigators was even sold a bundle of 11 DVDs containing more games and a tutorial on how to load games from the PC to the PSP. (Which brings to mind an age-old article where we exposed the piracy situation in the Philippines)
O wow. All this, right after hearing about the new anti-piracy law yesterday? Yeouch. Looks like these two guys in Cali just got a golden ticket to a life of misery.
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