Woah that was fast, one hell of a lawsuit and probably criminal charges coming. I wouldn't want to be on the recieving end of that especially with the impact those leaks have had.
Sony has identified individuals responsible for The Last of Us Part 2 leaks, saying they were not affiliated with either Sony or Naughty Dog
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The leaker continued to leak new videos for 3+ days despite seeing the reactions online, the harassment and what not. Fucker doesn't deserve a benefit of doubt.
Especially from posters who have crackhead in their name.
Yeah I don't really find a lot of humour in swatting to be honest, police going in fully prepared to kill someone just because someone is mad on the internet is appalling.
I don't care about Sony financials, I care about my own enjoyment of the game.
And the leaker is not a child, he know it would take less than a week to find him.
As stated in another thread, Sony will never sue over this for a ton of reasons. They will learn the lessons of any mistakes they made and move on.
That's what i was wondering, because if it was an employee of a third party contractor, and sony decides to sue, i really hope the sue goes directly to the individual and not the contractor itself.
It depends on how the obtained the footage. Just because your not under nda doesnt mean it's ok to steal. I get it's just video games but at the same time it devs livelyhoods . If this does hurt sales then it will negatively affect employee bonuses.
Probably both. Sony would argue they lost millions in revenue due to the leak. This individual won't have millions to pay, so they'll need to go after his employer as well to get paid.
The way videos are leaked, it clearly points to one source. Each new day he/she would add something new continuing previous day's leak.
The people they did it are going to learn a lesson. It won't be a free one.
I can reveal that it was Don Mattrick who leaked it. It's his revenge for what happened at the Xbox One launch.
Asked about it, he said ''"Fortunately we have a product for people who, because of spoilers, aren't willing to play the game. It's called Halo: Infinite.''.
Asked about it, he said ''"Fortunately we have a product for people who, because of spoilers, aren't willing to play the game. It's called Halo: Infinite.''.
Is this a criminal case? Because I'm sure that whatever fine is imposed in civil court will be utterly un-payable by the offenders
Hark Sony, hark!
Bellow, bid our father the Yoshida rise from the depths full foul in his fury! Black waves teeming with salt foam to smother this leaking mouth with pungent financial demands, to bankrupt ye, engorging your acounts til' ye turn blue and bloated with bilge and brine and can pay no more
Only when he, crowned in lawsuit shells with slitherin' payout tails and steaming litigation take up his fell be-suited arm, his legal-tine trident screeches banshee-like in the tempest and plunges right through yer gullet, bursting ye -- a leaking bladder no more, but a blasted bloody film now and nothing for the trolls and the souls of false insiders to peck and claw and feed upon only to be lapped up and swallowed by the infinite teraflops of the Playstation Emperor himself
Forgotten to any man, to any time, forgotten to any god or devil, forgotten even to the internet, for any stuff for part of the TLoU2 leaker, even any scantling of their soul is a leaker no more, but is now itself the internet!
Bellow, bid our father the Yoshida rise from the depths full foul in his fury! Black waves teeming with salt foam to smother this leaking mouth with pungent financial demands, to bankrupt ye, engorging your acounts til' ye turn blue and bloated with bilge and brine and can pay no more
Only when he, crowned in lawsuit shells with slitherin' payout tails and steaming litigation take up his fell be-suited arm, his legal-tine trident screeches banshee-like in the tempest and plunges right through yer gullet, bursting ye -- a leaking bladder no more, but a blasted bloody film now and nothing for the trolls and the souls of false insiders to peck and claw and feed upon only to be lapped up and swallowed by the infinite teraflops of the Playstation Emperor himself
Forgotten to any man, to any time, forgotten to any god or devil, forgotten even to the internet, for any stuff for part of the TLoU2 leaker, even any scantling of their soul is a leaker no more, but is now itself the internet!
Perhaps it was leaked by a playtester? Sony get hundreds and hundreds of players in to come and playtest their games. These players do sometimes try to steal and leak information.
I've only had one person leak something on a project I was working on. I won't say what game it was, but it was almost comical because the leaks he posted were disbelieved by the community.
Still, it's not uncommon that players try and get into these sessions and record with their phones, or pull data away from the machines they're playing on via USB sticks.
It's difficult to sue someone because the person might not have been NDAed, and you would have to prove financial damages. It's incredibly difficult to demonstrate that a leak actually reduces the commercial success of the game.
I've only had one person leak something on a project I was working on. I won't say what game it was, but it was almost comical because the leaks he posted were disbelieved by the community.
Still, it's not uncommon that players try and get into these sessions and record with their phones, or pull data away from the machines they're playing on via USB sticks.
It's difficult to sue someone because the person might not have been NDAed, and you would have to prove financial damages. It's incredibly difficult to demonstrate that a leak actually reduces the commercial success of the game.
Quoting so people will see this.
They essentially just left the game on an unsecured server where you download patches from.
So these fuckers are going to jail right? Imagine being so desperate to know more about a game's plot that you go through illegal actions to get it. Fuck off. Era should delete that spoiler thread, these leakers are only getting what they want spreading this info.
Sounds that they only had client authentication for the access key, but nothing after that. Meaning no authorisation and client access to every resource available in the target. Luckily it's easy to identify clients based on that key afterwards, and this is not all bad, as now the game has been in news for multiple days -> additional visibility and marketing.
Significant financial damages and potentially hacking depending on how they got the footage.
I know, people were killing naughty dog because a supposed disgruntled employee leaked the game.
The whole situation is fucked up but if they can punish the person then I hope they do. People worked on the game and took a lot of time too, to have someone leak it which leads to fans and devs being harassed is just terrible.
No trial, straight to the chair.
I figure we're not too far off someone posting this unironically.
I'm sure Sony will handle it appropriately enough, though I'm admittedly nosy and am curious about how it all happened.
I figure we're not too far off someone posting this unironically.
I'm sure Sony will handle it appropriately enough, though I'm admittedly nosy and am curious about how it all happened.
Well deserved. You reap what you sow. I'd love to see how they squirm now.
If you do work for naughty dog arent you affiliated with them? That contract work connects them to naughty dog.
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