Sony is serious you guys. It does not want anyone circumventing the PS3′s security measures. It especially doesn’t want anyone telling the whole world how to do it themselves. Sony has already gotten court orders to keep George Hotz from telling the internet how he hacked the PS3. Sony is also taking down anything it can find that links to hacking procedures. The company’s latest act of technology policing occurred in Germany, where police and someone from Sony participated in a raid on a hacker’s home.

A huge piracy ring in Taiwan has been brought down by the Intellectual Property Rights Police and the National Police Agency. This is reportedly the biggest bust in the area’s history. The pirates were producing illegal copies of PlayStation 2, Xbox and Wii games.

The incident occurred in between panels for the films Resident Evil: Afterlife and Paul. Reports say two men started fighting over a seat in the auditorium’s Hall H. The fight came to a head when the suspect allegedly pulled out an object, supposedly a pen, and stabbed the victim in the face. The suspect was held down by Comic-Con attendees before the authorities arrived.

According to The Gazette, James Williams was playing an unspecified Wii game when he got extremely angry. Williams then proceeded to bite his mother on her ankle and use his car as a battering ram. Williams allegedly struck several vehicles, a tree and a pedestrian with his car afterwards. After getting out of the car, Williams pulled out a BB gun and shot out a window of another car.

On a typical Sunday, November 15, 2009 afternoon, a teenager in Buffalo Grove, Illinois decided that he wasn’t about to just take his Xbox ban lightly. After a 15 year old boy had been told by his parents that part of his punishment for misbehaving to have his Xbox taken away, he resorted to desperate measures. He called 911.

He didn’t actually stay on the line, but he did call. Police then went to the scene, to make sure that everything was in order. It was then that the teenager pleaded his case to the police, asking if his parents had a legal right to confisgate his property for his wrongdoing.

Of course, the officers told the teenager that his parents were within their rights. They then advised him to listen to is parents and left the scene. No charges were filed against the teenager for his unwarranted call to 911…

The punishments for the undercover officers caught Wii Bowling during a March 6, 2009, drug raid have been handed down. And they’re not so punishing.

The Lakeland Ledger reports that 11 members of the multiagency task force were found at fault.

Undercover detectives received a letter of retraining and are required to undergo two hours of retraining. The sergeants who supervised and didn’t stop detectives from virtual bowling got a letter of guidance and must undergo four hours of retraining.

The Ft. Myers News Press has a story about an UPS driver who police allege went on a crime spree that would make Grand Theft Auto IV’s Niko Bellic envious.

Craig Podleski, an UPS driver since January 2000, is accused of stealing $250,000 worth of packages including a Wii, an Xbox 360 and three PlayStation 3s. Non-gaming items Podleski is believed to have taken include a $700 compound bow, a Cobra GPS with Bluetooth and – we are not making this up – a police badge from Cape Coral, the town where he lives.

Recently we’ve seen an influx of reports about Gears of War 2 being leaked onto a number of torrent sites. These days it’s very difficult to pinpoint where the original copies of pirated games come from especially with all the corners of the internet to hide behind. According to a report from Commercial Appeal, one man from Memphis, TN, (USA) isn’t so lucky.

Rodney Gray, an employee for Technicolor – a company that “provides disc and game packaging, warehousing, distribution and production” – was picked up by police officers conducting an investigation. According to the police affidavit, police pulled Gray over and found 31 games in a bag in his car. They later searched his home and found…

In Iowa, a 32-year-old man may spend 20 years in prison for possession of Japanese manga and will face penalties under the PROTECT Act (18 U.S.C. Section 1466A). Christopher Handley is still in big trouble because of the manga he purchased from Japan in May 2006 that the government claimed was obscene and depicted minors engaged in sexual acts.

Luckily for Handley, he no longer has to face the court system alone as the Comic Book Legal Defense Fund has decided to provide their expertise as a consultant to the defense and provide funds for use to support in obtaining…

With gamers spending more time in online environments, the need for moderation and “policing” of online behavior is becoming an issue of increasing importance. With all three of the major players in the console race (Microsoft, Sony and Nintendo) pushing online services, this mammoth task remains the responsibility of each company.

Stephen Toulouse, the lead program manager for policy and enforcement on Xbox Live, is just one of the people responsible for ensuring that Microsoft’s online service is kept in good order for its 12 million subscribers. Toulouse recently detailed some of his responsibilities during a keynote speech in Toronto on Wednesday (October 8, 2008) and…