{"id":15110,"date":"2011-10-28T10:48:00","date_gmt":"2011-10-28T08:48:00","guid":{"rendered":""},"modified":"-0001-11-30T00:00:00","modified_gmt":"-0001-11-29T22:00:00","slug":"shock-report-modern-warfare-3-already-pirated","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/business\/15110-shock-report-modern-warfare-3-already-pirated","title":{"rendered":"Shock report! Modern Warfare 3 already pirated"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 3 has already been pirated, and copies are in circulation, according to a report over on <a href=\"http:\/\/venturebeat.com\/2011\/10\/27\/pirated-modern-warfare-3-discs-are-already-spreading-exclusive\/\" target=\"_blank\" title=\"VentureBeat\">VentureBeat<\/a>. Pretend to be really surprised.<\/p>\n<p>The article alleges that the second of the two-disc PC set was removed from a shipping warehouse in California, and copies of this have been distributed &ndash; although no sources are cited for this, and considering the PC version of the game uses Steamworks and remains locked until launch day, I can&rsquo;t work out what anybody&rsquo;s actually going to do with it.<\/p>\n<p>The article also mentions a Craigslist posting where somebody claims to have landed in trouble for playing the game.<\/p>\n<p>&ldquo;If u buy modern warfare before release date you will be fined $5000 and court cost permanent suspention from online play and more so don&rsquo;t buy that sh**. i already went thru it&#8230;[sic]&rdquo;<\/p>\n<p>True life drama or ActiviBlizz&rsquo;s social media people playing bogeyman? YOU DECIDE!<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: small;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/forum\/showthread.php\/19600-Modern-Warfare-3-already-pirated\" target=\"_self\" title=\"Shock report! Modern Warfare 3 already pirated\"><strong>Shock report! Modern Warfare 3 already pirated<\/strong><\/a> &lt;&lt; Comments and views<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Yo ho ho, etc.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":157,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_sma_x_autopost_status":"idle","_sma_x_autopost_error":"","_sma_x_post_id":"","_sma_x_attempts":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-15110","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-business"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15110","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/157"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=15110"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15110\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=15110"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=15110"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=15110"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}