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The pirates strikes again!!!

News | September 22, 2007 11:10 am
It seems that some of us in the in the XBOX 360 Nation have a wee bit of a problem with lines, release dates, and the law. Apparently, the ENTIRE Halo 3 game has been leaked onto the Internet.



First it was the ending, and now the entirety of Halo 3 has hit the net due to software pirates. Halo 3 DVD data has been apparently uploaded across the Internet for illegal downloading less than a week in advance of the release date.

This seems to be tradition for the Halo franchise now, as Halo 2 was pirated nearly a month before its release in 2004. But really, it shouldn't surprise anyone these days when a game as highly anticipated as Halo 3 finds its way to the darker recesses of the Internet.

Before you bound off to scour the net for your own copied copy, keep the following in mind: it's completely illegal and criminal conviction of software piracy can be met with a $250,000 fine and/or a prison sentence of up to five years. Two, even if the law doesn't catch you, Microsoft probably will -- it takes a modded 360 to play illegal game copies, and playing illegal game copies on a modded 360 will likely result in Microsoft banning you from Xbox Live into oblivion.







Halo 3 Pirated to the net?


Halo 3 is only a few days away kiddies..................Can't we all just breath and relax??? :)
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it popped up 2 days ago on ftp sites..

not that i would know or anything :rolleyes:
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Well, we know for a fact what happens when you play Halo 3 before release (See the thread on our forums) so we know that the year is "9999" when your ban is lifted.

As for the pirating, I know that there were a few ads on Craigslist.com that had people selling copies in certain cities for as little as ten bucks.

Again, I will reiterate that today's society, at least a majority of them, are extremely impatient and are willing to twist, bend, and even break the rules if it means that they get something earlier than everyone else.

The good thing is that, these people usually get divine retribution. Good riddance to these people. Natural selection will run its course eventually on them.
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That stinks
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Pirates? On MY internetz? No way. How sad though how people can't wait for things. Aren't things so much better when you wait?
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Yes they are, house, they are (sniff, sniff, tear)
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Good thing I don't search the web for such things, I'd rather just wait and let it all be a surprise!
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You guys DO know that Microsoft released a statement saying that they're not going to ban anyone (besides microsoft employees, they will get bant) for playing Halo 3 early? It was on digg about a week ago.
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Well think about it, aren't they giving away free copies early to contest winners and such, well what about friends playing with friends, they can't ban those people...we all know they banned the one guy for playing early but that was like 3 weeks ago, this is now like 4 days before arrival
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Halo is a terrible franchise. I hope as many idiots get banned as possible.
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And this is why Ninjas are better....
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Halo is a terrible franchise. I hope as many idiots get banned as possible.



Ignorance is bliss I suppose.
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if u say halo is a terrilbe fanchise
ur a fagggot
just to let u know
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Quote by SNEAKmidget:


Halo is a terrible franchise. I hope as many idiots get banned as possible.



You know, normally I would let this one go and say that everyone is entitled to their opinion.....but you're wrong.

To say that Halo is a horrible franchise is just flat out being blind and stupid. There are reasons that other developers want to come out with the "Halo-Killer" game. When your game is so successful that people simply want to create a game to take you down, that's a hell of a compliment, if you ask me.

Halo 3 will, in all likelihood, bring closure to the franchise, but it will go down in history as one of the single best FPS games of all time.
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I don't really like halo all that much either. Different people like different kinds of games I guess.
RB6:Vegas is more my style.
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