James Delahunty
14 Oct 2004 8:35
One of the years most eagerly awaited games Halo 2, leaked onto the net last night. It is thought to have first shown up on Usenet in the form of a French DVD ISO and is labeled something like, "Halo.2.DVD9.PAL.XBOXDVD-DiFFUSiON". Microsoft has vowed to "aggressively pursue" whoever leaked the game. "We are currently investigating the source of this leak with the appropriate authorities," Microsoft said in a statement, "Microsoft takes the integrity of its intellectual property extremely seriously, and we are aggressively pursuing the source of this illegal act. We consider downloading this code or making it available for others to download as theft."
Halo 2 will still ship around the world in the second week of November. Last year, the source code of Half Life 2 by Valve and subsequently a working beta of the game surfaced on the net, causing the official release date to be pushed back by as much as 12 months. Also, in the past year, Microsoft was shocked to discover that their NT/2000 source code had leaked onto the Internet.
Source:
The Register