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GTA: San Andreas Leaked
Anonymous Coward cuts-and-pastes: "Less than a week after a pirated version of Halo 2 began appearing on the Web, another of the year's most sought after games has been stolen. Ironically, it also happens to be a game titled after a larcenous act itself. That's right. Grand Theft Auto: San Andreas has become the latest victim of piracy, with illegal copies of the game, its manual, and its cover appearing on various Web sites." Update: 10/21 13:54 GMT by Z : Rockstar adds some details to what we know about the crime in a press release covered by CVG.
"Downloading, possession and distribution of Grand Theft Auto: San Andreas, including making the game available on the internet, is theft." Then came this warning from the company: "We take the theft of our intellectual property very seriously and we are and will continue to diligently and aggressively pursue this matter."
I take the virtual theft of guns, money, sex with hookers, cars, and other people's lives very seriously and I will continue to diligently and aggressively pursue this matter once I get my hands on the game.
Yet another news article that continues the bombardment of the uninformed public trying to change the definition of words to fit their needs.
Please post bittorrent links.... thanks!
Meh.
This will help with the supply shortage on the release date!
WHOA WHOA! You mean to tell me there is pirated software on the internet!?!? Next you'll be telling me I can download Music and Pornography.
Don't Tread on Me
A game about robbing and stealing and wrackage and mayhem leaks out for everyone to steal. It is beautiful.
Because the slashdot editors would like someone to post a bit torrent for them. They don't have enough time or friends to find the link.
A thieving opportunist has stolen a van of my latest publication hot off the press! But that SPANKED-up idiot has left the rear doors open and now my, artistically violent, tastefully desctructive video game is being dropped all over the Internet. Persue that trail of illegal copies diligently and aggressively collecting evidence as you go. When you've followed the trail to that thieving SPANK-head, waste him.
Look, I know a guy who's working on it, a really decent man. He has a wife, a child, and another on the way. If you copy this instead of buying it, you're contributing to putting him out of a job just when he needs one the most.
This isn't a theoretical issue. Rockstar aren't some faceless cartel. Please. Do the right thing this time.
If you were blocking sigs, you wouldn't have to read this.
Ahhh, so you're the one who came up with ROT-13. You insidious devil, you... : p
Alright, whose fault is this???
nyuk nyuk...i kill me...
http://64.92.167.30/download.php?id=369&name=Grand _Theft_Auto_San_Andreas_USA_PS2DVD-PARANOiD.torren t
It's just Pacman with a bow.
Buy a Hyundai. No self respecting car thief will be caught dead in one.
Grand Theft Auto made me do it.
*everything* is Orwellian to cats.
Downloading warez from a
- website
? What a quaint, antiquated idea!(That's so 1995.
I'm sure a few communities still do it that way, but I think systems like IRC are the norm; harder to shut them down.
Maybe this can serve as inspiration for a spineoff series.
GTORRENT: INSIDE JOB
You free roam around town looking for DVD-R bargains and pepper-spraying coders and stealing their code.
You can walk into cyber-cafes and upload your stolen goods to one of the popular servers, and then with the money you saved you can buy some Doritos and Pepsi(PRODUCT PLACEMENT, w00t!), and maybe have enough left over to pay the eldery women not to kick your ass on the dangerous trek back to your dorm room on the bus.
I completely agree that this wanton piracy is destroying industries left and right. But why stop with software pirates? Libraries cost book publishers billions of dollars each year. If you calculated every book that was ever borrowed from a library and multiplied that by the hard-cover price of the book, libraries have cost this country more jobs than any other institution or industry.
Think of all the money that people would be spending on these books instead of just going to the library to pirate them. This is stealing money from hard working authors and publishers, and eventually, it's going to ruin them. I mean, how are publishers supposed to survive this scourge on their profits? Don't they deserve to get paid? And what about the authors? Why do you think people like Edgar Allan Poe died peniless and in the gutter? Obviously, if he had been paid royalties on all those pirated copies of his books, he would have had enough money to live, maybe even write more books! How many more works would Twain have written if people were't stealing food off his table by going to the library to pirate his books? This "Library thing" is killing book publishers! It's stifling creativity! It's ruining society a we know it. We need to advance society and start dismantling these dens of wanton piracy immediately! I call for the destruction of all libraries now!
OK, now how is that argument substantively different from the argument that file sharing hurts music/software/movie sales? Just because file sharing is more convenient? Just because you don't have to "return" the software/book/movie after a few weeks? There have been libraries for thousands of years, and yet people still purcahse books, and authors can still write books and make money. Every time the BSA says that they are losing billions due to file sharing, just think of this argument.
Information wants to be free!
-Arthur
Cave ne ante ullas catapultas ambules
Actually, in most cases you know it's FAKE.
No one, not even a crackhead, would sell a rolex for $20. They would at least get $50
In order to steal the game, you have to beat up enough cops and hookers in your town, and run over a few pedestrians on your way to work, and then you will be approached by a mysterious stranger who will send you on a mission that will result in your getting a bootleg copy of GTA:SA.
Yes I couldn't decide to "steal" it or not either, so I figured out what's going to make up my mind:
If you can swim in this one, I'll buy it. If every time you touch the water, you bite the big one, and have to start a mission over where 50% of it is DRIVING ACROSS THE F-ING island to get to a bank where during the holdup, a glitch means my hostage won't follow me, and then I have to restart the game and watch every splash screen through a painfully slow load; then I'll steal it.
Problem solved.
I've spent the last two days solid in French language immersion on my XBox.
A game that encourages theft and hurting others. And yet, when someone actually steals their game and hurts their profit, they cry for better morals.