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The Latest Anti-Piracy Weapon: Vuvuzelas
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Ubisoft give you the horn.
Published: 12:45, 03/12/2010 by Tuffcub.
3Publishers have tried many ways to combat piracy but Ubisoft have found a new and unique way to annoy game-thieves. Anyone who tries to play a dodgy version of Michael Jackson: The Experience on the Nintendo DS will find the King of Pop has some additional backing instruments.
The YouTube clip below shows how the game is rendered pretty much unplayable thanks to an unending chorus of Vuvuzelas. The on-screen prompts required to play the game have also been removed.
Reports that a pirated copy of Assassin’s Creed: Brotherhood features X-Factor’s Wagner Carriho ‘singing’ a medley of Elvis hits have yet to be confirmed.
Source: TinyCartidge / YouTube
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03/12/2010 at 12:51
Member since: Apr 2010
Genius idea! I don’t get how it works though, how do they know if you are playing a dodgy copy and alter your game, or did they release a tampered ROM into the wild to be downloaded?
03/12/2010 at 13:04
Member since: Aug 2009
That’s what I was thinking, and surely the hackers will find away around it eventually?
03/12/2010 at 15:40
Member since: May 2010
I really want to know how they would do it n all. However I think if that information was divulged then it would go a long way with the hackers’ efforts to get around it.
03/12/2010 at 17:22
Member since: Oct 2008
More companies should do that. People would soon get fed and hopefully buy it leagally.
03/12/2010 at 19:05
Member since: Jul 2009
Are people actually buying that Michael Jackson game..?
03/12/2010 at 12:53
Member since: Aug 2009
That is literally the best idea ever.
03/12/2010 at 12:55
Member since: Dec 2008
If I dont win the “Best Sub-headline Award” this year I’m leaving TSA :)
03/12/2010 at 12:58
Member since: Apr 2010
I liked it, but I dunno if it award worthy!
03/12/2010 at 13:02
Member since: Dec 2008
*cries*
03/12/2010 at 13:10
Member since: May 2009
now look what you’ve done, he’s going to go and eat all the biscuits now!
03/12/2010 at 14:10
Member since: Dec 2008
Sorry but Bulletstorm’s “Son of a dick” has to take that one :P
03/12/2010 at 13:01
Member since: Oct 2010
Pirates Got Rick Rolled!
03/12/2010 at 17:06
Member since: Aug 2010
heres a vid of the hacked version running, look how CRAZY mad the guy gets.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oHg5SJYRHA0
03/12/2010 at 17:26
Member since: Nov 2008
Darn….. I hate you !
03/12/2010 at 19:58
Member since: Nov 2009
Dam you!
03/12/2010 at 13:04
Member since: Jun 2009
Well its definitely the funniest anti-piracy measure I’ve ever seen.
03/12/2010 at 13:06
Member since: Aug 2009
LOL funny
03/12/2010 at 13:33
Member since: May 2010
I imagine that this would make the game that much more hilarious when playing it at a party. I like Ubisoft and their madness (sometimes), as seen at E3 this year n all [maybe not as crazy as the ones in the smaller conferences which were just ultimately bizarre, yeah, you know which ones I'm on about]
03/12/2010 at 13:39
Member since: Aug 2008
Remember when you could click a button to play vuvuzelas over any YouTube clip. That was annoying
03/12/2010 at 13:47
Member since: Forever
If I remember correctly, Rocksteady did something similar with Arkham Asylum last year. If you pirated a copy then Batman didn’t have a cape.
That might not sound like much but it made the gliding control impossible… you just fell.
03/12/2010 at 14:04
Member since: Dec 2008
Get you and your snowy gravatar!
03/12/2010 at 16:00
Member since: May 2009
that is a bit on the posh side isn’t it!
03/12/2010 at 14:00
Member since: Feb 2009
Legendary!