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[halohuman]

I feel strangely homicidal, go figure.
Anyway, it was probably some European French SONY employee.

[skyhawk0000]

[TridenT]

[Arashi]

[thebruce]

[TridenT]

Yeah... I know. The rep you could get for pulling this big of a wool over M$'s eyes would be quite large. But you made the key point yourself.

[thunderclap8]

[Triese]

ThunderClap got it right, it is the thrill of the take. In that world, you are always trying to better your rep, always trying to do what the next person couldn't. Thats why you always see multiple versions of virus's, there is always someone trying to do better than the last person. For instance, most of the half life 2 source got stolen and leaked, now this person or group of persons is trying to one up by getting the whole version of Halo 2.

Even if M$ isn't skillfull enough, the combination of the Feds and M$ will be. This is an international affair now, and it now falls into the feds hands and any other country that we have extradition rights with. You can bet the Germans will crack down on it if it gets widespread in their country. They are not to keen on this kind of stuff. A GUARANTEE, the leak will be tracked down eventually. M$ will put out a reward for info, and one of his so called buddies will turn him in, or some independent will help M$ find him. One thing to remember, no matter how good you are, there is always someone better.

[KingJ]

the peolpe that stole the copy was from the manufautring company. it happend all the time w/ games, music and movies

[MeKiwi]

[Lakhesis]

I recall that when Valve had their troubles last September, there were several groups that created fake downloads to dilute the chances that someone would get an actual leaked version - torrents for 3 gigabyte bitmaps, etc.

Ah well, there is an upside - if any of these jerks want to play Live, they're still going to have to buy the game. Not exactly a silver lining, but perhaps aluminum or tin.

[TridenT]

What's truly funny is there's a pretty decent chance I'll be playing on Live Nov 10th, and at some point hear someone (stoned off their rocker) say how they are teh leet gamerz cause of how they practiced on their pirate copy three weeks before the game came out, and so they're obviously better than all of us.

EDIT: because I can truly spell truly.

[Dingis]

Oh man the internet is serious business.

INTERNET.

[XGameFusion]

i've got pics of some of the new halo 2 content... BloodGulch 2, some of the single player, the menus... etc... about 30 pics here.

http://www.puppiesandflowersandbutterfliestoo.com

OK, cuz we don't approve and because I have the power, I've fixed that link... - AD

[thebruce]

ok, why? WHY?
note, there's also a link in the thread of a place to get it, which I did not visit, and the general attitude there seem to be 'cool', not "GET RID OF IT"

yes, we know the release is real. no need to post screen clips to prove it.
Jeeez...