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Video game piracy has been around since the industry's first big boom in the early 1980s, if not earlier. That's why developers have always had to think of newer, better, and cooler ways to punish those bold enough to take what isn't theirs.
Case in point: These 10 examples are all about how video games have turned the tables on people who refused to legally obtain them in the most spectacularly disruptive and imaginative ways. We focus on some of them.
Have the perpetrators learned a lesson from their experience? We certainly hope so, but at least we all had a good laugh at our expense…
10. Drunk Camera – Grand Theft Auto IV
Like its predecessor, there's a lot more fun to do in 2008's Grand Theft Auto IV than just completing the main mission. For example, the main character, Niko Bellic, goes on romantic dates, works as an assassin and a thief, calls a number of friends, including his cousin Roman, to play darts, goes bowling, goes to a strip club, etc. or get very drunk.
The effects of that last activity (camera wobbly in tandem with erratic driving or walking) shouldn't subside for very long (like immersing yourself in another hobby or dropping off your companion immediately after leaving the bar). Then it should subside even faster).
That is, unless you want to play the PC version of GTA IV without a license. After about 2-3 minutes, shameless (or unlucky) people who do that will find themselves with an excruciatingly shaky camera that they can't turn off. It also affects cutscenes!
GTA IV also introduces other disciplinary measures, such as vehicles accelerating automatically and fixed missions becoming invincible for various reasons. Still, trying to navigate Liberty City through the eyes of a completely inebriated Nico is a particularly subtle and pernicious penalty.
