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In a major offensive against game piracy, six game developers and publishers and an industry trade group have filed a federal lawsuit against numerous alleged piracy rings, the Wall Street Journal is reporting. Such anti-piracy efforts are becoming increasingly common, but the trade group told the paper the three purported rings are some of the most sophisticated yet, employing hundreds of people around the world in global counterfeiting operations. District Court in San Francisco, including LucasArts, Acclaim, 3DO, Infogrames, Bethesda and Interplay. The suit alleged numerous violations of law, including wire fraud, copyright piracy, mail fraud, interstate transportation of stolen property, counterfeiting, unfair business practices and more. The defendants reportedly belong to the groups Class, Paradigm and Razor 1911. The so-called pirates were allegedly able to acquire preproduction versions of the games and remove the anti-piracy mechanisms embedded in the software within days. They would then upload the games to the Internet and other ring members in Russia would copy the offering onto CDs, which were then available for sale the same day as the official release. The rings operated in a number of cities, the suit alleges, including San Francisco, Dallas, Minneapolis, Philadelphia, Los Angeles and more.
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