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Subject: Halo 2 Piracy
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you know what thats probably all they can do butok fine you downloaded it good job its not hard to find just dont spoile it for a lot of people thats the least you could do and yes p2p is legal every 1 knows that just alot of people have respect for this game and have been waiting years for it to come out and now 24 days to go and it happend every 1 should have known it was gonna happen but it did just dont spoile it

  • 10.15.2004 6:13 AM PDT
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All Microsoft/Bungie need to do is, is when they find one of these bastards, they need to 'accidently' post the said persons details on these forums (Name, Address, Phone Number, etc.) and the loyal Halo 2 community would do the rest :)

  • 10.15.2004 6:17 AM PDT
Subject: Halo 2 Piracy!!
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I dont post here at all but i have been a member a while.
I just wanted to tell you guys Im doing my part aswell, its so -blam!-ty whats happened, ill try dig up some info for you guys at bungie.
And if i find out anyone i know has a copy ill find them, slap them around, then burn the pirate copy.
Roll on Nov 11th.

  • 10.15.2004 6:18 AM PDT
Subject: Halo 2 Piracy
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As a loyal soldier of The Underground Army I will serve to protect the interests of Bungie.
Destroy the infidels!

  • 10.15.2004 6:28 AM PDT
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Hey "umm yeah"

I know that you see all of the infantile insults and really, really poor english and just want to throttle some of these guys, or insult them, or whatever, but please don't.

I've got no real, compelling or even logical reason behind this other than not being a dick. I, too have wanted to burst out with a huge rant on how to properly type words like "you", "for" and "to", and on realistic ways to assist Bungie, but I realize it's not going to help anything. There's a lifetime supply of these guys out there and those of us with proper schooling unfortunately just have to suffer through it.

Mods: If that truly is a spoiler, would you please edit it out?

  • 10.15.2004 6:30 AM PDT
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May the -blam!-s who did this burn in hell, and their daddy's beat them with sledgehammers. I say we develop our own version of the warthog, and run them over a thousand times. Stay away from us you lame piracy freaks. Halo 2 fans try to stay away from the spoilers that will leak. I know the sales will still be as strong when the REAL version of the game gets delivered to me November 9th.

  • 10.15.2004 6:30 AM PDT
Subject: Halo 2 Piracy, why and who?
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Bungie if your listening.... I know you are busy doing other things,but who could have done this,who could have relaesed this? could this have been one of our own Bungie heros?
who else has the right to tamper with a finished copy of Halo2?

-SGT. JOHNSON Green Horns report for duty! we got some BS hacker guy trying to ruin our lives men, we must engage the enemy and destory him, this man is trying to corrupt your minds into playing a pirated copy of a game you think the world of,a game when you first played it, you thought of S#$@ this is to tight. A game you have waited for too long to
play

lets do this men,make me proud bungie and bring these bastards down

  • 10.15.2004 6:39 AM PDT
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I've send an email to microsoft with some info and pics about some guy who shared a possible Halo 2 game on overnet... If some of you guys have DC++ or any other popular shareware program try search on Halo 2 under programs ofcorse and try to mail microsoft if you find something interesting...

  • 10.15.2004 6:46 AM PDT
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<rant mode on>

Anyone else notice how when a big game (Halo2 Doom3 HL2) get pirated, everyone goes mad and its headline news everywhere.

You never see any headlines for the rest of the time when the other software companies get their software pirated.

To all the people who have posted on here saying that piracy is bad and people should be tracked down, I have a few questions for you......

How many of you have recorded a movie from the tv onto a video tape?

How many of you recorded a cd onto an audio cassette?

How many of you have downloaded an mp3 onto your pc without paying for it?

How many of you have a copied cd in your collection?

How many of you have borrowed a piece of software from a friend and installed it on your machine?

All the above are acts of piracy. Fair enough, you haven't stolen possibly the biggest game of the year, but nevertheless, you have commited an act of piracy.

I'm not condoning the theft, I think its a shame, but stop going on about piracy as if you have never done it yourselves.

(and if anyone replies and says they have never committed an act of piracy, shut up. I don't believe you)

<rant mode off>

Just my 2 cents. :D

  • 10.15.2004 6:54 AM PDT
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Because sombody says that they're mad because someone pirated Halo 2 doesn't mean that they think piracy is bad even thought it it is... I think piracy is bad but that doesn't mean that I feal pitty for those who's music is on the net. The reason why I don't download music or movies is:
1: The quality both in sound and picture is horrible and never gets near the quality of a DVD
2: I like to pay the price and sort of "donate" money to the creators if it is a good movie or game. When Halo 2 comes out I don't care what it costs I'll have the money no matter what because bungie made a great game and worked their asses off and that's certainly worth paying for. Besides I would rather like Halo 2 LE with extra DVD than some crappy cracked cd...

  • 10.15.2004 7:12 AM PDT
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I can't edit my post so I made a new one...
PS: I have pirated several times but i stopped look at the other post...

  • 10.15.2004 7:15 AM PDT
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Sorry i just emailed microsoft to say i had found a video sp but that was before i realised that it was the game that was pirated. Oops, sorry.

  • 10.15.2004 7:16 AM PDT
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OMFFFG!
Ive been waching the bungie site for about year and never said any thing. BUT, it seems lioek your all looseing the plot ie. i hope the who ever has done it burns in hell. LOL. after all a game is only a load of code and all you do is press a few buttons and some colours move on a screen. anyway i can acept that you lot are into this thing and i will play Halo 2 when it is out to see what the fuss is about. who know i may become a fan. Good Luck in finding who ever done it.

http://cgi.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&category=62 053&item=8139046086&rd=1

  • 10.15.2004 7:16 AM PDT
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yes every 1 has done atleast 1 of those things u said we all know it but usually if you download a song from a cd that isnt out yet and you like it 9 times out of 10 you will still buy the cd the same with movies ok like i said it happend if you have it keep it to yourself and still support bungie and buy the real version you know you dont want to play the french version all the time right lol so support bungie buy the game so there will be a Halo 3

  • 10.15.2004 7:16 AM PDT
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Posted by: Sargey
<rant mode on>

Anyone else notice how when a big game (Halo2 Doom3 HL2) get pirated, everyone goes mad and its headline news everywhere.

You never see any headlines for the rest of the time when the other software companies get their software pirated.

To all the people who have posted on here saying that piracy is bad and people should be tracked down, I have a few questions for you......

How many of you have recorded a movie from the tv onto a video tape?

How many of you recorded a cd onto an audio cassette?

How many of you have downloaded an mp3 onto your pc without paying for it?

How many of you have a copied cd in your collection?

How many of you have borrowed a piece of software from a friend and installed it on your machine?

All the above are acts of piracy. Fair enough, you haven't stolen possibly the biggest game of the year, but nevertheless, you have commited an act of piracy.

I'm not condoning the theft, I think its a shame, but stop going on about piracy as if you have never done it yourselves.

(and if anyone replies and says they have never committed an act of piracy, shut up. I don't believe you)

<rant mode off>

Just my 2 cents. :D


SHUT UP SARGEY!!! All of these things i am sure we all have done. However all of your points are wrong. Copying a cd onto a casette or another CD is ok for your own personal use. Recording stuff off of the TV is legal, borowing a game from a freind is fine, as long as you dont make an extra copy for yourself, and downloading a song is OK for all of us canadians, it is meerly a way to try before you buy. If you like a band's music, go buy it.

Despite that it that doesn't mean that what we listened to or saw was on whole month before the intended release date (of a game the developers were maticuliously careful not to release spoilers for)! I think that we all are upset at the fact that now we will have to avoid any place that possibly could have spoilers, but they alre the same places that give us the legal info on the game (really who doesn't want to know more about Halo 2 unless it spoils the single player story). this final month forums are going to be packed with discussions about Halo 2 but us hard core fans now because of some stinkin pirates has taken that away (I flew all the way to europe just to play zanzibar) and now some jerk who deserves a pineapple up his @$$ ruins that.
I am a pirate but i won't stoop to the levels some are (a pirate's code of sorts) and those who are caught should get fined $100,000 there are more than enough people who would gladly pay that to get a legal copy of Halo 2 just one month before release date, but none of those people would pirate the game, we are the true Halo 2 fans and anyone who ruins the game for us will severly pay
reporting for duity
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  • 10.15.2004 7:19 AM PDT
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he's right

  • 10.15.2004 7:20 AM PDT
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Posted by: Noogle
Sorry i just emailed microsoft to say i had found a video sp but that was before i realised that it was the game that was pirated. Oops, sorry.


Haha... Nice... Well maybe you should read a bit closer what this is about...

  • 10.15.2004 7:25 AM PDT
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oh well at least youre trying

  • 10.15.2004 7:27 AM PDT
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We will the guy who did this and make him pay!

  • 10.15.2004 7:36 AM PDT
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Yea pretty much sucks!!

Think its too late to do anything about it though. Seems its everywhere.

Mabye Bungie should just use google. lol

  • 10.15.2004 7:40 AM PDT
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anyone realize that sargey became a member only today? He has a point, if the pirates don't ruin anything then i am sure we all will not be quite so harsh, but still knowing that people are feasting on Halo 2 while we are searching for any tiny bit of info legally released about anything! # of levels, new weapons or vehicles, and many other things.

  • 10.15.2004 7:42 AM PDT
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Bungie, download the leaked game, and i am sure you could hitch a virus, or tracker onto it (i mean you made the game) and release it on bittorrent, and the p2p networks.

  • 10.15.2004 7:46 AM PDT
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Posted by: Cyberg4
Bungie, download the leaked game, and i am sure you could hitch a virus, or tracker onto it (i mean you made the game) and release it on bittorrent, and the p2p networks.


lol, like THAT wouldn't be illegal

  • 10.15.2004 7:49 AM PDT
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OK, folks, Sergeant Ulaire Sparky reporting for duty.

I found 2-3 links that were advertising it (and enabling to download it) and i reported them to piracy@microsoft.com. Along with this, on the sites they were located on, i posted multiple warnings about how I was reporting them, and the Bungie was pissed. I hope that Microsoft will listen to me.

  • 10.15.2004 7:55 AM PDT
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I really hope that someone is working on this problem cause most of the bungie team is on vacation (look at frankies vid)...

  • 10.15.2004 8:00 AM PDT