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Man Caught with Over $100k of Gears of War 2, Fable 2, and Other DVD's

October 23, 2008 in News comments 7

Rodney Gray was caught with hundreds of copies of Fable 2, Gears of War 2, and other unreleased DVDs/Games worth estimated over $100k.

As an employee for Technicolor - his company was responsible for the packaging, storage, and distribution of Xbox 360 Game discs and cases.

The games and DVDs were for resale on the black market.

Nearly 100 copies of unreleased sequels to two popular video games were recovered this week after they were stolen from Technicolor for sale on the black market.

A Technicolor employee has been charged with theft, and another man is under investigation.

A Technicolor security worker reported the theft of games for Microsoft's Xbox 360 and also a number of DVDs on Wednesday.

The games, "Gears of War II" and "Fable II," haven't been released to the public. Neither have some of the missing DVDs.
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  • 0
    Chiggins Oct 23, 08
    Oh God.

    I would hate to be that guy.
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    Storm Oct 23, 08
    This just goes to show ya, if you're going to so something, do it without getting caught! Or don't do it at all. Didn't know that the 'black market' included games, heh.
    • 0
      Final Blade Oct 24, 08
      The thing is though, its hard to not get caught in this day and age.
  • 1
    Kim Jong Il Oct 23, 08
    "Hey man, I can get you a forged passport, an Uzi or a copy of Wii Music before it's released. "
  • 0
    Daigoji_Gai Oct 23, 08
    And for the record, this is how a vast majority of pirated copies are leaked. Employees at the duplication companies that game devs trust to make the copies and not distribute the content see a way to get a quick buck or some "leet" attention on their gamer lists.... *sigh* There are other leak sources, but I hope this is an indication that the industry is really starting to crack down on this.

    Believe me, pirated software hurts gamers - price increases, DRM paranoia, lack of PC versions... etc. Pirating sucks and also hurts the underpaid and overworked programmers that are in the industry.
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    HawkMan Oct 23, 08
    programers arent underpaid in the gaming industry. overworked sure.

    btw buy got owned!

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