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Half Life 2 Theft Arrests


An email from Valve reveals that arrersts have been made in several countries related to the break-in to Valve's network, theft of the Half-Life 2 source code, and release of the source code on the Internet. After many tip-offs, Valve have managed to track and finally pin-point the culprits.
"Within a few days of the announcement of the break-in, the online gaming community had tracked down those involved," said Gabe Newell, Valve's CEO. "It was extraordinary to watch how quickly and how cleverly gamers were able to unravel what are traditionally unsolvable problems for law enforcement related to this kind of cyber-crime."

"It was very uplifting to see how the community rallied and tracked these people down. Everyone here at Valve is once again reminded of how much we owe to the gaming community," added Mr. Newell.

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Half Life 2
Game: Half Life 2
Developer: Valve Software
Publisher: VUGames
Released: 16 Nov 2004
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