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Halo 2 Piracy
Posted by SketchFactor at 10/14/2004 10:57 AM
Halo 2 has been illegally released onto the internet and we need your help...
Last night a pirated copy of Halo 2 was released onto the internet. Needless to say we think this really sucks. Aside from years of hard work being stolen from us, we've gone to great lengths to ensure that the details of the Halo 2 campaign remain a mystery for players to experience for themselves on November 9th. Microsoft is currently engaged in a full scale investigation and to those foolish enough to partake in this piracy, you will soon witness the firepower of this fully operational battle station.
Members of the Bungie community - we need your help. The Underground Army is being called into action; this is not a drill. Anyone who has information regarding the leak of the game or individuals or websites promoting the download of these illegal files is asked to please contact us by sending email to piracy@microsoft.com or calling 1-800-RULEGIT. We also ask that you help us minimize the spoilers for those opting to wait for the retail release by refraining from posting screens, talking about the story and deleting any such posts you encounter. Many of you have already been actively tracking down and forwarding links to us and we thank you for your help.
not really by insiders. All downloaded videos that just got released are from a handheld camera. So anyone can really do it. The DVD Screeners are from when DVD are going to be released, they send them to companies and such. Then it gets in the wrong hands and then they copy all the files from the DVD to VCD. It's kinda a simple process just time comsuming.Dracil said:It's been happening in the movie industry for a long time (which by the way, is released mostly by insiders)
MS didn't make the game, bungie did.Felron said:You heard wrong.
My opinion on this? MS got what was coming to them. Just like Valve. If you're going to skimp on something, security shouldn't be on the top of your list.
Niz said:not really by insiders. All downloaded videos that just got released are from a handheld camera. So anyone can really do it. The DVD Screeners are from when DVD are going to be released, they send them to companies and such. Then it gets in the wrong hands and then they copy all the files from the DVD to VCD. It's kinda a simple process just time comsuming.
A recent study published by the AT&T Labs revealed that most of the illegal copies of movies available on P2P networks have been "leaked" by the movie industry insiders, not by movie enthusiasts armed with digital camcorders.
Almost 80 percent of 300 copies of different movies found by the researchers on P2P networks, were apparently leaked to the Net by people working within the movie industry. According to AT&T Labs, this is the first study that tries to identify the sources of leaks for popular Hollywood movies. Nearly all of the movies in the study were found on the Net before their official U.S. DVD release date, some of them even before their movie theater release.
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