Interesting, the RSS-feed mentions an article "The Lawbringer: A world without remedy", about a leaked Crysis 2 development build with full single-player content as well as multiplayer. Clicking that link dumps me into a completely uninteresting article about the next WOW Insider Live Show (Yaaaawn!).

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"One of the very basic tenets of our society and our social structure is that when we are wronged there is remedy. If your car is totaled by a careless driver, you have recourse through insurance companies or the driver's own wallet. There's someone you can sue, usually, and get enough money to make you whole again. The thing you lost, your car, has a certain value. The money puts you back in the position you were before you were wronged.

Late last week, we learned about a startling occurrence in the games industry -- Crysis 2 was leaked. And not just any leak: Rock Paper Shotgun reported that not only was a developer build of Crysis 2 leaked with the full single player content available, but also the multi-player experience as well as a keystone master online authentication key, making CD key facilitation magnitudes easier for pirates. Leaks happen, but Crysis was mere weeks from release. The most interesting, and potentially saddest, aspect of this story is that when games leak out from the watchful gaze of their developers, there is little to no recourse for these companies on the scale that is required to be made whole.

This week, I'm going to talk about a world without recourse, where one of the game industry's biggest and scariest problems lies, the world of online activation, and how Blizzard's tight-lipped security still doesn't prevent leaks even as one of the biggest gaming concerns running now.
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