Halo Reach Leaked To Filesharing Sites 160
Stoobalou writes "What appears to be the full version of Bungie's Halo Reach game has turned up on a number of file sharing sites. The hotly-anticipated multi-player shooter had been hosted on a private area of the Microsoft Live site in order for journalists to preview the release, but Microsoft has admitted that a security breach has meant that pirates have been able to bypass personal download codes given to writers. Disk images of the game are now appearing on a number of public torrent and P2P sites as well as on popular NZB aggregators and Usenet binaries newsgroups."
The game isn't due to be released until September 14th. Microsoft is said to be "aggressively pursuing" whoever grabbed the files without their permission.
Better go after those pirates (Score:5, Funny)
They're stealing potential profit! It's almost as bad as competition between businesses, or a consumer informing other consumers about a bad company/poorly made product. In all three cases, potential profit is being stolen.
We must stop these people from hurting our businesses. Also, this clearly wouldn't have happened if there had been super powerful DRM installed with the game!
Re:Long end of the stick. (Score:5, Funny)
Re:Better go after those pirates (Score:1, Funny)
Bungie is stealing potential profit away from other companies due to the fact that some people might buy one of their games instead of a game from another company. Pirates are doing something similar, only without money involved. We can't condone these pirates who are stealing non-existence profit, no matter what pirate-enablers say or think.
Clearly spending millions more on DRM that will totally never be cracked and millions more on going after these pirates (police have nothing better to do, anyway) is a good investment.
Misleading headline (Score:2, Funny)
Halo: Reach was actually leaked onto store shelves in the year 2001 for the original Xbox.
Halo: Reach is the short version of the longer title, Halo: Reach for another game.
HALO BREACH !! (Score:2, Funny)
Get it, breach instead of reach? Yes?
Come after me, Microsoft... (Score:5, Funny)
Are you mad you failed to secure your permissions for downloaded files?
You only have yourself to blame. I only showed people how to bypass your bullshit, just like I showed the nice people at OZMODS how to bypass the PS3 protections.
Please, come after me. I'll fucking wipe out your life and livelihood when I expose your internal e-mails showing how you PLANNED this out. We're talking a SECOND anti-trust lawsuit with full exposure this time, assholes. FUCKING TEST ME.
I *LOVE* having spies in industry. Your NDA be damned. I'll expose you for the Totalitarian Communists that you are and make your stock price plummet so hard you'll fucking wish you didn't come after me.
I owned EA, you think you stand any better chance?
Bring, it, Microsoft. You already know who I am, please, step up so I can wipe your ass out and claim self-defense from INTERNATIONAL TRAITORS SELLING TECHNOLOGY TO FORBIDDEN COUNTRIES.
You don't stand a chance.
Re:Come after me, Microsoft... (Score:5, Funny)
-Joke Explainer
Re:Only for specific Xbox360 mod (Score:3, Funny)
Pirating Reach is a bit of a stretch, then.
Leaked? (Score:1, Funny)
Maybe they should have uploaded it on Wikileaks. ^^
Re:Come after me, Microsoft... (Score:5, Funny)
I Got nothin
~TheCarAnalogyGuy
Re:Better go after those pirates (Score:2, Funny)
What are you talking about, friend? You're the one being thick. You support the theft of non-existent (future) profit by supporting competition. You might as well support piracy. Some businesses think they have the right to steal customers (thereby likely stealing future profit away from other businesses) away from other businesses. This is absurd. You should do your part to help stop the theft of future profits.
Re:Well, this just proves it! (Score:3, Funny)
Understanding sarcasm is soooo overrated.
Re:'aggressive' waste of time (Score:2, Funny)
Let's be honest, the real problem here was that MS was using the "Security by Obscurity" model to hide the test code site. It even says ITA that it was a "secret" website. (As if a website could EVER be secret for long, especially one connected to Microsoft.)
Secret websites are nothing special. The only thing that Microsoft forgot to do is create a robots.txt file
User-agent: * /SecretDownloads/Halo-Reach-Prerelease.zip
Disallow:
That way it wouldn't have shown up on Google and nobody would have downloaded it. Problem solved.