New Video Game Forces Adware Functionality to Play
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Monday, October 22nd, 2007 (No comments yet) | Gaming, Privacy |
Hellgate, a soon-to-be-released video game includes a license agreement that forces players to accept the harvesting of identifying information from their machine. This is part of an in-game advertising scheme that, so far, doesn't quite reach the level of what the Penny Arcade cartoonists prophesied, but it's getting closer.
(H/T to slashdot for the link)
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