Rockstar Games launches Investigation

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The recent spread of GTA: San Andreas onto the internet by a piracy group has brought about a demand from Rockstar to catch the people responsible. In the efforts to keep it under control they have released a press statement concerning the matter.

We take the theft of our intellectual property very seriously and we are and will continue to diligently and aggressively pursue this matter. If anyone finds information on websites with links to unauthorized downloads, information, scans or videos, please contact us at piracy@rockstargames.com.

News source: GTACentral.net

Whats New:

- Zoom Player now includes an integrated key editor allowing you to assign Zoom Player functions to any key or compatible Multimedia device (such as Multimedia keyboards and 4-Button Mice).
You can edit the keys separately for either DVD or Media modes through the Advanced Options Key dialog by pressing the "Edit" button next to the custom key file selection.
Pressing Edit with no key file specified will allow you to select a new file in which to save the updated key map.
- New Station Navigator allowing you to navigator through Radio Stations.
- New Setting (Advanced Options / Settings / Interface) allowing you to have a hint box pop when the mouse cursor is over the timeline indicating where the seek would go when clicked (enabled by default).
- New Setting (Advanced Options / Settings / Interface) allowing automatic switching to Audio Mode when a media file containing no video stream is loaded.
- New Setting (Advanced Options / Settings / Interface) allowing automatic switching to Media Mode when a media file containing a video stream is loaded (and you are currently in Audio Mode).
- New Setting (Advanced Options / Filter Control / Settings) allowing you to enable YUV Mixing mode on the VMR Video Renderers (VMR7/VMR9). This mode may reduce CPU use on some systems.
- New Value (Advanced Options / Values / Interface) allowing you to specify the distance (in pixels) the mouse cursor needs to move to be shown once it was automatically hidden.
- New Value (Advanced Options / Values / Interface) allowing you to specify a delay after closing a media file. This can be useful with some filters that may not close themselves properly if not given such a delay.
- New OSD Value (Options / OSD / Actions) allowing you to have a hint box pop when the mouse cursor is over the timeline indicating where the seek would go when clicked (enabled by default).
- New "/DVDBM" Command Line Parameter allowing you to specify a DVD bookmark file from command line. For example: "/dvdbm:c:zplayerDVD-BookmarksDVDVOLUME.2E662BB6D20F0ECFstart.chp"
- New Customized Media Profiles for the new OpenSource DScaler decoders (MPEG/AC3/DTS Audio and MPEG-2 Video).
- Radio Stations are now based on user defined names instead of just the URL. You can also rename stations now.
- New Button on the "Advanced Options / Association" page allowing you to set the Zoom Player icon to all associated file extensions.

Thanks to Matrics of the Forums for this submission!

#1 thop on 21 Oct 2004 - 22:22

What's to investigate? Not like it happened the first time, where have Rockstar been the last few years?

#2 TheWitePony on 21 Oct 2004 - 22:26

mmmm...i wonder what the "T" stands for in GTA....could it be theft?

#3 djesteban on 21 Oct 2004 - 22:32

let's say it like that

Grand Theft Software

#4 Fredde87 on 21 Oct 2004 - 22:33

a witch hunt...

well it did work with hl2 didnt it? :unsure:

#5 insaneshaft on 21 Oct 2004 - 22:44

omg... they're going to make millions anyway, jesus. why waste money & time on something that's inevitable.

they mustn't have taken any other R* game that got pirated (all?) very seriously then... or any game ever made thats been warez'd (um...all?)

#6 Rudy on 21 Oct 2004 - 22:57

they should just try to be a lil bit more careful

#7 BroChaos on 21 Oct 2004 - 23:06

haha, seriously. with MS freaking out about Halo 2, and R* freaking out about GTA

A, they are acting like they've never had a game pirated before...

they should just stick to what they've always done: nothing. now they are gonna raise prices and use this lawsuit as justification to screw over all the people who actually do pay for the game.

#8 donachello on 21 Oct 2004 - 23:11

What's all the moaning about anyway they are going to make a mint on the release of the game and preventing the game leaking onto the Internet will never stop... It does not matter what coding or protection you put on a game it always ends up on the Internet available for downloading...

(1 reply) #9 DodgeViper on 21 Oct 2004 - 23:50

It wouldn't have happened if R* did not employ such dishonest employees, they're the number 1 source of it actually leaking on the net, how else can you get hold of a game that's not even released.

#9.1 TooPackShaker on 22 Oct 2004 - 20:23

be realistic, they probably never know until its leaked

the leakers may not have a criminal record

what are they supposed to do? read their mind?

#10 rishid on 22 Oct 2004 - 00:11

In halo 2 case, that was 3 weeks before release... that will hurt sales a bit and is rather annoying.

(2 replies) #11 DodgeViper on 22 Oct 2004 - 00:18

I don't think it will hurt halo 2 sales cus people are gonna buy it for xbox live and that's a big thing to miss out on.

In the case of GTA SA, it's a big hassle to run pirated games any way, opening the dvd tray and closing without properly ejecting probably break the ps2.

#11.1 Zelpus on 22 Oct 2004 - 00:50

theres a thing called mod chips...they allow you to play pirated games like you would normally therefore it wouldn't break your ps2 anymore than a normal game.

#11.2 snyper256 on 22 Oct 2004 - 19:22

Modchips.. or fliptops.

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