COPYCENSE

"Federal authorities raided three Washington, D.C.-area video game stores and arrested two people for modifying video game consoles to play pirated video games, a video game industry group said on Wednesday.

"The Entertainment Software Association said the Dec. 1 raids at three Pandora’s Cube stores in Maryland and Virginia were a joint effort of the U.S. Department of Justice’s computer crimes unit, the U.S. Attorney’s Office for Maryland and the Bureau of Immigration and Customs Enforcement.

"Authorities arrested two store employees on charges of conspiracy to commit copyright infringement and conspiracy to traffic in a device that circumvents technological protection measures, the ESA said."

Ben Berkowitz. U.S. Officials Raid Stores, Arrest 2 in Game Piracy. Reuters. Dec. 8, 2004.

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