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Adware Companies Buying Game Developers

Posted by Zonk on from the no!-anything-but-that! dept.

miller60 writes "At least one Adware company has purchased a game developer, hoping to use game downloads to install advertising software on gamers' computers. 180solutions, which recently received $40 million in venture capital funding, says its purchase of Full Armor Studios is the "first of many gaming relationships the company will forge over the coming months.""

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  1. Re:This is Crap by Jesrad · · Score: 3, Funny

    Well, yes, it is illegal. Seems we have a winner business strategy here:
    1) invest money in a game studio
    2) cripple the newly acquired asset's value by making its games install adware
    3) go to jail and lose all your money

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    Maybe we deserve this world ?