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Even if Valve might not get damage for their loss, the purpetrator will serve time. Ferrari or source code, no difference.

If I leave my Ferrari (hrm) parked and forget my keys in the car and the door unlocked and some unknown bloke gets into the car and drives away in it, would you not call that theft? I would. It doesn't matter how open Valve leaves their source code, it states clearly Copyright Valve and is...

I votet no. You should have clarified if I would get MultiPlayer included in my SP purchase or not. You should perhaps have had 3 alternatives, No, Yes and Yes, if MP is included without additional cost.

Of course he knew on September 30 about the whole thing! In fact, we've already discussed that he actually appears depressed/sad during his presentation, not very enthusiastic at all.

Valve didn't release this code under a GPL or anything. Rest assure that any release of HL2 source code based games will be having a nice law suit from Valve waiting after the police raid their homes.

Of course they would get a search warrant first. It is not the first time FIB or police would raid someone looking for evidence on computers. It has happened many times before, including international law enforcement cooperation like over a year ago in the lovebug(?) virus where they police...

So you are saying that if I happen to leave my Ferarri unlocked on the street and you drive away in it, you didn't actually steal it? Even if Valve had the source code open on an open ftp server, it still clearly states it is copyrighted material and that means if you take it, you steal it.

Look, with an agency like FBI, you get full access to all company logs in case of a criminal investigation. With nicknames on IRC and especially if they are online, you can track down a physical address of a person in minutes and raid that house within 15 minutes or so. Confiscating HDs etc will...

In a multi-million dollar theft like this, rest assure FBI will get involved and h4x0r tricks will not work with the Feds... this smells prison time like in all major virus outbreaks.

I'm sure the blue pill will pay more $$$, if money is your thing.

I work and make money from software development. We don't make hundres of millions of dollars like Valve from their games, but this totally surprises me. How can a company with such an unmeasurably valuable source code have this on a compute that is physically connected somewhere to Internet, I...

Why do people call it a leak? It's not an leak, a leak implies someone from the inside stole it. This is pure theft, someone external to Valve broke into Valve and stole the source code.

X=Microsoft Y=Visual Studio .NET compiler

Realistically, of course. But if a police report is filed, the police or FBI can do whatever they see fit. If they want to state examples by arresting anyone hosting the source code, they can. Just like anyone hosting movies or music can be arrested. Since HL2 source code carries a much much...

Valve is. Any company suspecting another company is using copyrighted material, even if only a small code snippet, can be sued big time. The whole SCO law suit against Linux companies is about SCO claming Linux contains copyrighted code from IBM and others from the 70s. Any independant 3rd party...

The game is most likely delayed *because* of this theft. Valve cannot release a game and payment system if the source code is out in the open!

You are familiar with the word "Copyright"? It means you sit on and proved you sit on Copyrighted material. Liek in major world wide virus breakouts, I am sure FBI will get onvolved in this matter. Has anyone ever heard of source code being stolen that is valued in hundreds of million dollars...

The theft of the HL2 source code and probably the Steam source code, is most likely the *cause* of the delay. At this point I doubt Valve can say when HL2 can be released as they will have to 1) Re-write Steam to be secure so that anyone posessing the 19/9 source code cannot hack the new...

P4 EE will benefit between 4 and 15 % at 3.4 GHz over the 3.2 GHz P4/800. However, it will come at a steep price. I'd put my money on a 2500+ and the rest on a 9800 Pro, that will make HL2 fly at lowest cost. Opteron 14x and Athlon 64 FX are identical 940 CPUs. AMD will release the A64 FX...

Boys, boys, boys... The "tech demo" is the latest Bink movie from Valve, it shows lighting effects while walking over rooftops in City 17 (19?). It also shows close ups of the sea food monster from the monster part of the movie shown at E3. Nice demo of what they've done using DX9.