Hackers Claim to Have Grabbed Halo: Reach From Microsoft Site

[Jezzascmezza]

These people are most likely gonna get sued big time.
Could they really just not wait another month?

 

[baseracer]

I bet somebody will leak it from their servers, and will find a way to a certain body of water that has people associated with scurvy.

 

[Kwaren]

They should have just recoded it so it was in big head mode permanently then put back where they found it.

 

[DocBalance]

I say M-$oft was asking for it, it was cocky to put it up on Xbox live for any point rating. Serves 'em right for trying to show off.

 

[samsonguy920]

Well give these guys a cookie for their achievement. Not for downloading a copy of the last Halo game, but for pissing off Microsoft. Nothing pisses off the big bully more than pulling something when their pants are down. I hope these guys are prepared for the consequences, cuz something tells me they are gonna get caught.

God damn it, I do hope they don't distribute this because I hate the idea of having too stay away from the internet until the 14th.

There will be the temptation. It is always there lurking in the corners. Staring at you.

 

[blinkgun96]

was it logical living it on a open network (on the sense of making it connected to the mesh,the internet) anyway? surely they must have seen something like this coming.

My opinion is right here.

Why would they make it available over the internet if they didn't expect someone to hack it? Seriously, you are not infallible Microsoft, people will find a way to get your shit regardless of security. People like that DO exist

Fortunately, If the need arises I can put my fingers in my ears, and go LALALALALALALALALAA I CAN'T HEAR YOU!!!! until the 14th.

 

[Icehearted]

Anything to sucker-punch Xbox Live isn't necessarily all bad. Sort like my enemy's enemy is my friend. I won't promote piracy, I can fully comprehend it's tangible impact, but I will openly blast Microsoft's monopolistic hold on it's online service, and the idiotic way they force people to pay to play.

And before the argument starts, yes it is forced, because by paying for a game, yet you cannot fully experience all of it's advertised features without being forced to pay an extra fee. Those are the facts, that's my stance, and I'm sticking to it.


Also, I'm so out of touch I didn't even know there was another Halo coming out. I thought they finished it as a trilogy and some strategy game or something.

 

[VirusHunter]

I'm actually siding with the hackers on this one. Microsoft brought this on themselves by making a hyped unreleased game available to reviewers via online download instead of just mailing them actual disc copies instead like everybody else.

It strikes me as bloody unlikely that a hacker group would admit something like this, but then not release the game. It sounds like a way of experimenting with having their cake and eating it too, all the publicity from a "we were hacked" stunt without giving away a few thousand copies via torrents before they "catch on" and stop it.

As strange as it sounds, it's actually very common for a hacker group to do something incredible and then keep it to themselves, especially in the console modding community.

 

[MurderousToaster]

I'll be honest with you, this stinks of script kiddies trying to get virtual viagra for their e-penises.

Also, I have to admit that if they did get the game, they're fucking stupid. After stealing a highly anticipated game from one of the richest companies on Earth, they then go and publicly announce it?

I hope Microsoft take the Nintendo route of legal action and hit them with a lawsuit for a couple of million.

 

[NotSoNimble]

Proof or it didn't happen.

I am curious though.

My first thoughts echo your post, but......

I just hacked a version of Bioshock 3, but I'm not going to share it tho.

wee pyrats r rely frigin kewl

I laugh when people support these kinda illegal activities. I laugh even harder when kids who hack/pirate/steal go to jail.

Breaking the law is cool tho, so keep on fighting the good fight by being thieves that think the world owes you something!

Lol, I love these stories!

 

[MattRooney06]

if this did really happen (and i am doubtful)

theres not really a lot microsoft and bungi can do....i mean sure they can sit there and make big threats but not a lot else

they should count themselfs lucky there is no spoilers out and that its not being relesed and work on somwhere safer for there Data

 

[tomtom94]

I will be honest, I was kinda expecting this to happen.
If Microsoft honestly didn't predict this after listing it on the Marketplace they're even foolisher than I thought.

 

[Jandau]

A quick look at a popular torrent site or two shows no signs of it being leaked out yet...

 

[Jewrean]

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Good Avatar.

if a 360 game is pirated and put on the Internet don't you need a blank 360 disk to play the game, which essentialy means you need a moded 360 and when an update comes you get banned and have to stick to single player

Not necessarily. Various updates can cripple a modded 360, however modders can often counter this by updating newer versions of their firmware allowing (if only temporarily) online play. It's a game of table tennis basically. Each attempting to counter what has been done by the other side.

 

[Daystar Clarion]

Who would risk being sued by MS for a Halo game? If it was something like Kotor 3 I could understand.

So in other words "I can't understand why anybody else would have a view point different than my own!"

Pretty much.

 

[Arachon]

Why wouldn't the hackers admit to it. That's the whole point. There would be no point in doing it if no one knew you did it. That would be like landing on Mars and not telling anyone. It's just a pissing contest; It's all for bragging rights. If they get caught, it means they did something worth catching. If they don't get caught it means they're better than those who would catch them.

That's BS, there are many hackers who do not announce when they've hacked anything, and simply do it for the joy of hacking.

 

[Asehujiko]

Well, since Blizzard hammered a single person for $88 million, Microsoft will probably find them, get them in the courts and sued for their souls and every penny they have touched or will ever touch.

Blizzard got $3 million, which was a reasonable amount given how said server made about $3 million worth of microtransactions during it's lifetime, the $85 million of "statutory damages" went to actishit.

 

[fletch_talon]

Why wouldn't the hackers admit to it. That's the whole point. There would be no point in doing it if no one knew you did it. That would be like landing on Mars and not telling anyone. It's just a pissing contest; It's all for bragging rights. If they get caught, it means they did something worth catching. If they don't get caught it means they're better than those who would catch them.

That's BS, there are many hackers who do not announce when they've hacked anything, and simply do it for the joy of hacking.

I'm not necessarily disagreeing with you here, but... how do you know?