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Halo Reach Leaked To Filesharing Sites

Posted by Soulskill on from the somebody's-getting-sued dept.

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.

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  1. Better go after those pirates by cheekyjohnson · · 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!

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    1. Re:Better go after those pirates by cheekyjohnson · · 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.

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    2. Re:Better go after those pirates by cheekyjohnson · · 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.

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  2. Re:Long end of the stick. by miggyb · · Score: 5, Funny

    Clearly we now need copyright to extend backwards into the past, before the work is completely finished. Otherwise, how are artists like Da Vinci supposed to protect unfinished works like the Mona Lisa?

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  3. Misleading headline by Anonymous Coward · · 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.

  4. HALO BREACH !! by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 2, Funny

    Get it, breach instead of reach? Yes?

  5. Come after me, Microsoft... by Khyber · · Score: 4, 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.

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    1. Re:Come after me, Microsoft... by TheJokeExplainer · · Score: 5, Funny

      Uh. I am at a real loss on how to explain this.

      -Joke Explainer

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    2. Re:Come after me, Microsoft... by TheCarAnalogyGuy · · Score: 5, Funny

      Yeah, it's like a... when you roll down the windows and....

      I Got nothin

      ~TheCarAnalogyGuy

  6. Re:Only for specific Xbox360 mod by Sockatume · · Score: 2, Funny

    Pirating Reach is a bit of a stretch, then.

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  7. Leaked? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 1, Funny

    Maybe they should have uploaded it on Wikileaks. ^^

  8. Re:Well, this just proves it! by Rogerborg · · Score: 2, Funny

    but no one can pirate for the consoles...

    You ignorant or blind?

    Understanding sarcasm is soooo overrated.

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  9. Re:'aggressive' waste of time by cc1984_ · · 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: *
    Disallow: /SecretDownloads/Halo-Reach-Prerelease.zip

    That way it wouldn't have shown up on Google and nobody would have downloaded it. Problem solved.