Copy of MW3 Stolen from EB Games Expo

[Kathinka]

bloody IDIOTS!

should have stolen a god damned pc version! in 48 hours we could already load the thing on piratebay.org and play. ^^

IDIOTS! >_<

Steam Game, so encrypted me thinks.

that's why it's going to take skidrow or razor1911 or someone 48 hours instead of maybe 24^^

mw2 was a steamgame and it was ripped, cracked and ready to download and play days before release.

 

[Grant Hobba]

Even if it were a fun game; I would understand. Just not modern warfare 2.3

 

[godofallu]

Apparently i'm supposed to flame him for stealing, but I prefer to give him an internet high five.

I give the execution a 1/10 but the bravery a 10/10.

 

[cookyy2k]

And here we are, more reason for Activision and other publishers to go DRM crazy on their next big title, or at least they will use it as such.

Umm....why? What would DRM do to stop people from stealing a physical copy of the game? To cut down on pirating, sure but DRM would do fuckall if they had an actual (if stolen) copy of the game.

urm... always on DRM? That might just stop him.

Yes but it's still a physical copy of the game, so that wouldn't do anything. Unless you mean always on DRM that's on before the game is even released in which case yeah, that would catch them but it seems like more effort than it's worth.

I agree, it's stupid. I hate DRM. What I'm saying is to Activision (and other publishers) this is a perfect little thing to whip out if they put aggressive DRM on their next game and people moan.

 

[Glademaster_v1legacy]

Idiots need to stop posting this shit on the internet. I would be annoyed at him for stealing it but right now I am kinda annoyed the idiot thought it was a good idea to put the fucking on youtube. I know it is down now but still it was up. This is also just giving companies more fuel and reasons to put restrictive DRM in their PC gamers even from comments I am assuming this was not the PC version.

 

[CobraX]

Wow you risked being fined/going to jail for a Call Of Duty Game. That guy's a idiot.

 

[Alexander Cunningham]

If he's smart (And that wasn't a real online code) He'd stay offline and just enjoy the single player.

But what I think will happen is he'll stay off XBOX LIVE pop in the disc and start inviting people to join his MW3 Party, then word will spread, because people talk and somehow it'll go right back to him.

The golden rule about theft is when you do it, you don't tell anyone, you don't brag to anyone, and you don't TELL ANYONE! Take pride in yourself and personal satisfaction you commited the act but, now and days everyone wants to jump up on a box and scream out, "LOOK WHAT I DID," and that is how thieves get caught.

You have experience in stealing shit?

 

[Kathinka]

bloody IDIOTS!

should have stolen a god damned pc version! in 48 hours we could already load the thing on piratebay.org and play. ^^

IDIOTS! >_<

Steam Game, so encrypted me thinks.

Steam doesn't stop shit I'm afraid.

To play the DE:HR beta you just copied in a cracked exe and "steam" launched the game anyway.

Don't know about DE:HR or MW2.

But I was talking about encryption, as in, the code being useless because it is, you know, jumbled. I don't know if that's the case with the actual physical copies, but thats how they can do Preloading without worries, you can't just decrypt it, that would be akin to magic.

With DE:HR you are obviously just talking about a Crack, well, yeah, it isn't hard to trick a Game into thinking Steam is running, Photoshop for instance is normally ''cracked'' by telling the progam to connect to the localhost for authorization. But cracking a released Steam Game and cracking a unreleased Steam Game (if it is indeed encrypted) are 2 different stories.

well, i don't know the technicalities, but the fact is that most games are avaiable on filesharing networks before the actual release, and all of them, with very, VERY few exeptions shortly after. steam doesn't really help. maybe they can't employ this encryption method on disc versions for some reason. maybe this encryption thing is a myth and they can just afford to offer unencrypted preloads because it will be only hours until official release anyway, so they're not afraid of people cracking it so they can play half an hour before the official release date..

 

[Discord]

If he's smart (And that wasn't a real online code) He'd stay offline and just enjoy the single player.

But what I think will happen is he'll stay off XBOX LIVE pop in the disc and start inviting people to join his MW3 Party, then word will spread, because people talk and somehow it'll go right back to him.

The golden rule about theft is when you do it, you don't tell anyone, you don't brag to anyone, and you don't TELL ANYONE! Take pride in yourself and personal satisfaction you commited the act but, now and days everyone wants to jump up on a box and scream out, "LOOK WHAT I DID," and that is how thieves get caught.

You have experience in stealing shit?

What? No!! Of course not. I never Steal, That's a crime; But I know those that are willing to part with certain knowledge during conversation.

^____^

 

[Sparky184]

If he's smart (And that wasn't a real online code) He'd stay offline and just enjoy the single player.

But what I think will happen is he'll stay off XBOX LIVE pop in the disc and start inviting people to join his MW3 Party, then word will spread, because people talk and somehow it'll go right back to him.

The golden rule about theft is when you do it, you don't tell anyone, you don't brag to anyone, and you don't TELL ANYONE! Take pride in yourself and personal satisfaction you commited the act but, now and days everyone wants to jump up on a box and scream out, "LOOK WHAT I DID," and that is how thieves get caught.

You have experience in stealing shit?

What? No!! Of course not. I never Steal, That's a crime; But I know those that are willing to part with certain knowledge during conversation.

^____^

Sounds like you have good, law abiding friends xD

Also I'll take my Thread with over 1000 views badge now please =P

 

[ssgt splatter]

I would like to watch the video but the user already took it down.

That lucky bastard, I'd love to get my hands on that game but some of us do have enough patience to wait for the game to come out like well behaved childr... adults.

 

[Warforger]

I don't understand why there was an activation code (DLC?),

It's the latest good tactic to combat used games. I'm assuming what it does is have an online code that lets you get past a certain level which otherwise you would have to pay for via the market, and it's good for one use but afterwards when you sell the game the guy who bought the used game now has to buy the code if he wants to advance past that level. So it benefits those who buy new as well as being fair to those who buy used.

 

[Kathinka]

bloody IDIOTS!

should have stolen a god damned pc version! in 48 hours we could already load the thing on piratebay.org and play. ^^

IDIOTS! >_<

Steam Game, so encrypted me thinks.

Steam doesn't stop shit I'm afraid.

To play the DE:HR beta you just copied in a cracked exe and "steam" launched the game anyway.

Don't know about DE:HR or MW2.

But I was talking about encryption, as in, the code being useless because it is, you know, jumbled. I don't know if that's the case with the actual physical copies, but thats how they can do Preloading without worries, you can't just decrypt it, that would be akin to magic.

With DE:HR you are obviously just talking about a Crack, well, yeah, it isn't hard to trick a Game into thinking Steam is running, Photoshop for instance is normally ''cracked'' by telling the progam to connect to the localhost for authorization. But cracking a released Steam Game and cracking a unreleased Steam Game (if it is indeed encrypted) are 2 different stories.

well, i don't know the technicalities, but the fact is that most games are avaiable on filesharing networks before the actual release, and all of them, with very, VERY few exeptions shortly after. steam doesn't really help. maybe they can't employ this encryption method on disc versions for some reason. maybe this encryption thing is a myth and they can just afford to offer unencrypted preloads because it will be only hours until official release anyway, so they're not afraid of people cracking it so they can play half an hour before the official release date..

I can't think of any obvious reason why it wouldn't work on retail discs, but I don't know about that kind of Software, I do Websites, therefore the base knowledge on encryption. With the preloads, yeah, no they are encrypted and also routinely start about a week before release.

I can explain it like this, whe you log onto the escapist (atleast hopefully) it doesn't check the Password you enter with the Database because your password isn't saved in the Database in Plaintext format, it is encrypted (typically with md5). So what happens is, it will run what you entered through md5 and then check that with whatever is in the Database. Now, if you're smart, you also SALTed the passwords (added something to the password that the user themselves don't know about), this is done because, while you can't simply decrypt md5, Users still tend to use very basic passwords which can be ''cracked'' using Rainbow Tables (which is basically just a list of known combination, like say puppy would also equal the same encrypted value, so if puppy is your password, they could crack it). In any case they would still need to get into the Database itself to extract the saved md5...that or use social engineering to get the plaintext version of your password, but that would require you to be stupid.

hmm that all makes sense...but then how is it possible that games show up on filesharing networks cracked and ready to play oftentimes before the release date..there must be some way arround that, obviously. i don't think it's possible to decrypt the encrypted code without the key. so the only explaination i could think of is that the disc content for some reason isn't encrypted. but why wouldn't it be?

an interesting mystery^^

 

[Sizzle Montyjing]

Well this wasn't a completely ridiculous thing to do what-so-ever...
I mean... WHY DO CRIMINALS KEEP ON DOING THIS!?
[HEADING=1]WHY!?!?[/HEADING]

For those of you who didn't see it, the video wasn't put up by the guy himself (or so he claims) but they were all talking with european accents...
Half-way through an american accent appears asking 'Why are you putting on an accent for the camera?'

Oh criminals... you so crazy!

 

[willsham45]

Well the video did not play...oh well, but even so if you steal a game like that surly it is not the best thing to show the world your crimb, with google behind youtube it will not be hard to find him.

Play it on a xbox not connected to the intenet and just enjoy it maybe play split screen with close mates who will not speek...Although if this is the sort of person I am think of he probally just wants to get online...sign.

 

[Kathinka]

hmm that all makes sense...but then how is it possible that games show up on filesharing networks cracked and ready to play oftentimes before the release date..there must be some way arround that, obviously. i don't think it's possible to decrypt the encrypted code without the key. so the only explaination i could think of is that the disc content for some reason isn't encrypted. but why wouldn't it be?

an interesting mystery^^

I can think of 3 obvious possibilities:

1. I'm just wrong and the retail Disc, unlike the digital Download, isn't encrypted.

2. The Game, unlike MW3, isn't Steam exclusive, therefore, the retail Disc has by default no encryption and was leaked.

3. Oftentimes on such Plattforms people will claim that a file is something that it isn't, while you think you're downloading MW3, you're actually downloading Midget porn.

Other possibilities:

4. It is the actual Game, it's just still encrypted, kind of like a Pirate preload.

5. Gandalf did it.

Once the Game is actually released and decrypted, the cracking seemingly isn't that big of a deal. Kind of like my PS example, you can download the full Version from the Site for testing, all you would need to crack it is a keygen and to modify a File on your PC so that the Program connects to the localhost.

option 1 is possible, though i don't understand why they would not encrypt the disc too..

2 can't be it, because steam exclusive games are as prone to this as non-steam-exclusive ones. mw2 for example was steam exclusive too, and you could load and play it 6 days before official release.

3 also not it, because...well, in my country it is legal to download games for personal use, so i think i can say that and avoid the banhammer.
i have tried it myself, and most of the time no midged porn is involved. there are many fake download offers, but you learn to see what is real, what is put up by trusted uploaders, and what the comments below the download say about it.

4 is true, at least a variation. ususally the game files themselves are put up for download arround a week before release, and shortly after, ususally a day or two later, cracks are avaiable to make the thing playable.

5 is probably it. gandalf and those damn meddeling hobbits. that or 1, for some reason.