How about blaming the harassment on people doing the harassment?
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Sony has identified individuals responsible for The Last of Us Part 2 leaks, saying they were not affiliated with either Sony or Naughty Dog
- Thread starter Turkoop
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It sucks for the ND team that they got their work leaked but wanting jail time for leaking a video game is asinine.
Yeap. It's not a slap on the wrist, it's going to be a warning to anyone else that tries something similar that we can and will ruin you.
How about taking this seriously and considering the consequences it could have for devs that worked on the game?
Even if what he was saying was true (I have my doubts), these servers presumably wouldn't be public and still by his own admission require a key. If someone unaffiliated with Sony used the key to access the servers without permission and then take and share said files, it could essentially be the equivalent of stealing and then sharing said stolen files, which in turn could be shown to have caused damage and harm to Sony, ND, the IP etc, so those people would or could still get in serious trouble.
I'm not saying anyone is being bigoted on the leakers. I'm more talking about people putting the blame of bigots harassing people on Twitter on the leakers for putting the spoilers out there in the first place. It's saying that the excuse harassers use to harass people is ultimately what should be blamed for the harassment. Which.... is really dodgy reasoning. Like, this same sort of reasoning can be used to victim blame people who often get harassed.
I wouldn't put too much confidence in his source. He posted this just the other day
Absolutely take it seriously. Don't ruin someone's life while you do it. Putting the leakers in prison does absolutely nothing for the devs who worked on the game.
Honestly in this situation, getting jail time is what that person should hope for. Big company like Sony would rather sue for damages.
Surprise surprise, it wasn't backlash and a call to arms for the ridiculous crunch at ND. Embarrassing
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do any human beings post here lmao
This is the important part. It is also possible that absolutely nothing happens.. depending on how they got the footage. It's possible that the blame will be on someone else entirely and that someone else will be punished while the leaker just gets away with it.. depending on how they got the footage.
Unless the leaker broke/hacked in to ND HQ I don't see how he could be considered guilty of anything in court.
We're talking about the company that had 10s of millions of user data unencrypted stored on their servers.
I'm not advocating prison. I also would say it's likely they get sued very hard by sony, rightfully so. Unless they actually did something straight up illegal in a form of theft.
Well then the first comment wasn't meant for you :P.
Sony will sue the shit out of them and they likely will never work on the gaming industry or anything related again, I think that's enough.
Will be interesting to see what comes from this in the future.
They might not be affiliated, but getting the game via some dubious means can still get you in trouble. Just because someone leaves there front door open doesn't make it legal to walk in and take whatever you want.
And who told you this exactly?
Considering all the other nonsense that has come out in the last week that have come out with no source, posting something with a "just what I was told" doesn't seem good enough to me.
They might not be affiliated, but getting the game via some dubious means can still get you in trouble. Just because someone leaves there front door open doesn't make it legal to walk in and take whatever you want.
And who told you this exactly?
Considering all the other nonsense that has come out in the last week that have come out with no source, posting something with a "just what I was told" doesn't seem good enough to me.
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I wouldn't put too much confidence in his source. He posted this just the other day
So this user is already back to pushing fake news? Shouldn't the mods do something about this?
Sony can sue all they want. I doubt the leaker has the money they'll ask for anyway. And if you think jail time is better than being sued you've never been in jail or worked in the industry.
I don't know about jail time, but they could have potentially cost Sony and Naughty Dog a lot of money. Plus they screwed over the 100's of people working at Naughty Dog whose work was stolen.
I don't think making fun of calls for imprisonment is as serious an offence to the website's TOS as you think it is.
Are you kidding me?! I opened that thread, got sidetracked like 5 words in and closed the tab. I really lucked out (for now)...
Is this going to get verified?
Or we will continue to just post stuff like it is some fact.
Like ERA was so certain a few days ago the leaker was a disgruntled dev or QA tester.
I mean they way the leak was done basically accused ND of not paying their workers and damaged their reputation as a company. I've noticed that any story around ND or TLOU has been extremely negative ever since the leaks started happening.
The leaker accused ND or was that just people running with their own narrative?
Yet some people would like this thief to walk free because reasons.
Apparently it started as a rumor on reddit, But don't quote me on that
Crazy to hear the few people that think this behavior isn't punishable in both civil and criminal courts. Who ever it was broke many laws, and in doing so damaged the potential sales of a half billion-billion dollar franchise of one of the largest company on the planet. They deserve what they get.
Unless they breached an nda or obtained it by illegal means what can they be sued for?
What laws exactly? If they got provided the info then they're not in breach of anything? It's the exact same as journalists reporting on leakers
This isn't verified btw. The rumours are some users used hacked PS4's to access servers to retrieve the data, but afaik it's not confirmed/verified whether they had to hack the servers to get access or not, what sort of security was in place, or how they specifically accessed them either.
You have to imagine that Sony would have tightened things up following FFVIIR, either they didn't (seems unlikely), or these leakers are hackers who are more sophisticated in their means than rumours are giving them credit for.
You'd also think given the premise of this very thread, we'd stop pushing unverified rumours as matters of fact.
It started from an unsourced nobody on Twitter and for whatever reason, everyone made an exception to using their brain in reference to that tweet and just ran with it. Even people that should have known better ran with it.
Knowing Sony, it probably was lying on some public server. Are we going to pretend this is the first time they were inept when it came to security?
They have been really bad with that stuff I agree, but the info from Komo seems a little fishy for a game this big. I'm staying neutral on that until either the info is verified or reports come out stating something more specific.
