Square Enix Subpoenas Valve Over Deus Ex Leak

walrusaurus

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It'll turn up fake user info and a spoofed IP address. People that do major piracy like this aren't stupid.
 

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Android2137 said:
The subpoena was a legal necessity for both Square and Valve. I hope they catch the guy. Developers have bills and need to eat like the rest of us humans.
The games not even out yet and there is no correlation with the developers bills being paid for a game being leaked when it's not even out yet.

See also, the Crysis leak of 2010.
 

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Well, at least now I have a better understanding of the proportion of Escapist users that don't understand the legal system at all.

There's no reason to rage over a subpoena in an investigation where it is not only expected, but legally required. I'd be far more wary if Valve just handed the information over willy-nilly; at least here they're going by the protocol rather than resorting to corporate bullying (unlike a certain other publisher, or two, I could name).
 

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Roboto said:
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God... really Square? Are you being this fucking stupid?

What's next, firing off all the developers after the game releases because they encouraged those who did download this leak to post on the games official forums? Are you really getting pissed over something that has actually BOOSTED your initial sales figures for the game?


Hell, if you don't want money that badly, just pull a Ninteno (Of America) and just refuse to release the game at all.
This isn't an internal leak, such as some where you don't hear about it in the news and the employee gets fried [sic] within days.

This was a group of people or a person that bludgeoned their way into getting access from a secured file server without authorization. That is known as illegal!

Boosted sales has nothing to do with it. As far as the money goes, an NDA was violated, a server was compromised, and someone's gonna have to pay for it.
Yeah, but it isn't valve's fault. Square chose who they wanted to get the game early, and someone they chose got hacked. That is in no way valves fault.
 

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brainslurper said:
Roboto said:
cursedseishi said:
God... really Square? Are you being this fucking stupid?

What's next, firing off all the developers after the game releases because they encouraged those who did download this leak to post on the games official forums? Are you really getting pissed over something that has actually BOOSTED your initial sales figures for the game?


Hell, if you don't want money that badly, just pull a Ninteno (Of America) and just refuse to release the game at all.
This isn't an internal leak, such as some where you don't hear about it in the news and the employee gets fried [sic] within days.

This was a group of people or a person that bludgeoned their way into getting access from a secured file server without authorization. That is known as illegal!

Boosted sales has nothing to do with it. As far as the money goes, an NDA was violated, a server was compromised, and someone's gonna have to pay for it.
Yeah, but it isn't valve's fault. Square chose who they wanted to get the game early, and someone they chose got hacked. That is in no way valves fault.
They still need legal baring to get the information they need.