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Originally posted by DanFang
http://www.theregister.co.uk/2004/0...life_2_arrests/
Code-theft suspects nabbed, claims Half-Life 2 team
By Tony Smith
Published Friday 11th June 2004 09:20 GMT
Law enforcement agencies have arrested a number of people in connection with the alleged theft last year of the source code to the long-anticipated first-person shooter, Half-Life 2, it has emerged.
Details remain scarce. The game's developer, Valve Software, last night issued a press release simply announcing the arrests and little else besides. The FBI's Northwest cybercrime taskforce, the team investigating the theft, would only confirm that arrests had been made.
Neither party has said how many arrests have been made, when they took place or where.
Nor have they confirmed a variety of rumours that have emerged this year of equipment seized in San Francisco and a connection between then theft and German suspected of authoring the Phatbot worm.
At the time of the alleged theft, Valve CEO Gabe Newell claimed his email account had been hacked. He also said be believed some sort of keystroke recorder had been installed on some of the company's PCs. Valve had also sustained a number of Denial of Service attacks, he added.
Half-Life 2's source code leaked last October. Only the game code was circulated on the Internet - no content was included, making it impossible for the source to be played.
On the back of the alleged theft, the game's distributor, Vivendi Universal, said the game would not ship before Christmas, as previously scheduled. Instead, it said, the title would appear some time in 2004.
Ironically, the announcements of the arrests comes a week after it emerged that the game might not be finished this year after all. Half-Life 2's does not appear on Vivendi Universal's mid-year release timetable - a list that includes a number of other titles earmarked for the company's Christmas line-up.
The theft also caused some embarrasment for graphics chip maker ATI, which last Autumn pledged to ship the single-player version of Half-Life 2 with its then brand-new Radeon XT graphics cards.
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Half-Life 2工作團隊宣稱程式碼竊賊被捕
執法機關已逮捕了一批牽涉去年的FPS大作Half-Life 2之程式碼竊案.
相關細節仍然不明朗. 該遊戲的開發者Valve Software昨夜發佈新聞稿僅簡單的宣佈了逮捕訊息. 負責調查此案的美國聯邦調查局西北反網路犯罪工作隊只願意確認確實有人被捕.
雙方均不願意澄清究竟有多少人被捕, 何時與何地被捕.
他們也未澄清有關今年在舊金山被扣押的電腦以及可能是竊嫌的德國Phatbot病毒作者關聯性的眾多傳聞.
在所謂的(註下方)竊案發生時, Valve總裁Gabe Newell宣稱他的電郵帳號被駭了. 他還表示有某種鍵盤紀錄器被植入公司的部份電腦. 他最後表示Valve遭受了一些DDoS攻擊.
Half-Life 2程式碼與去年十月洩露. 只有程式碼在網上流傳並無相關內容, 因此根本不可能玩.
竊案發生後, 遊戲發行商Vivendi Universal將原本的聖誕節預定上市日期延後到了2004.
諷刺的是逮捕消息僅在遊戲無法在年內完工的消息傳出後一週公佈. Half-Life 2並未出現在Vivendi Universal的年中上市名單--該名單包含許多預定聖誕節上市的產品.
該竊案同樣的使ATI蒙羞, 因其去年秋天曾宣誓在當時全新的Radeon XT顯示卡系列附帶Half-Life 2單人版.
[註: 老美對於所有未定讞的案子均加"alleged"一詞以免未審先判, 我不太清楚台灣法律上有沒有直接的譯詞所以大家看的懂就好, 要不然週日早上翻法律是非常痛苦的事...XD]