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Gates of Troy Gold Master Stolen, Delayed
Ant writes "According to the story on Blue's News and Slitherine Software's related official statement, the gold master for Gates of Troy, their upcoming stand-alone PC strategy title, has been purloined, via a physical robbery of a UK Post Office carrier, rather than a computer break-in." It may well have just been "a piece of extreme bad luck", but kudos to Slitherine for trying to make the most of this incident, as they slather: "This attack comes hot on the heels of the theft of the Half Life 2 source code and shows how vulnerable games companies can be", and also fret: "It has been a wake up call to us and Slitherine will be reviewing its procedures in future to ensure the same type of thing cannot happen again." - perhaps a heavily armed guard is needed?
I hate to reply to myself but now that I checked the page I notice that "Gates of Troy" was an EXPANSION PACK I had never heard for game called 'Spartan' that I've never heard about either.
and really, if you check the pages it's not really a title you would risk robbing the postman for(financial gains == zero, as well as fame, the game is a quite niche game).
world was created 5 seconds before this post as it is.
http://www.busybox.net/shame.html
Hall of Shame!!!
The following products and/or projects appear to use BusyBox, but do not appear to release source code as required by the BusyBox license. This is a violation of the law! The distributors of these products are invited to contact Erik Andersen if they have any confusion as to what is needed to bring their products into compliance, or if they have already brought their product into compliance and wish to be removed from the Hall of Shame.
...encrypted the ISO...right...delayed...wait....
THE GOLD MASTER IS THE LAST GODDAMN STEP.
I sent a DVD off to replication a few weeks ago. I was worried it'd gotten lost in the mail, so I burnt another. Gee, no biggy. Didn't need it, it was just a mail delay.
There's no source on the master! It's the same as the frickin' disk you buy in stores! Where's the benefit of stealing it? You could just warez it or shoplift it. Heck, the master probably isn't even in a readily usable format, probably a disk image file used by the industrial replicators so you'd need mastering software to get the image back into good ol' NTFS or whatever. This story is a load.
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