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FBI Half-Life 2 Raids

[Jan 19, 2004, 5:02 pm ET] - Share - Viewing Comments

A weblog post mentioned in a Slashdot story apparently gives the account of a San Francisco native's encounter with the FBI as the fed's raided his home looking for evidence in connection with the theft of the Half-Life 2 source code (story). According to Slashdot (since the site has been, naturally enough, Slashdotted), the blog includes a scan of the FBI's search warrant. Thanks Captain Trips.

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Re: KEEP QUIET

Jan 20, 2004, 11:02

amygdala

I'm confused by the argument that Valve would have been better off by not telling the community that their security had been compromised and their IP stolen. Withholding that information would mean that they were withholding prejudicial information from their shareholders (i.e. shareholders in Vivendi Universal). Valve had a responsibility to disclose this information. To not disclose would have left them open to legal actions.

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Comment [quote="amygdala"Jan 20, 2004, 11:02]I'm confused by the argument that Valve would have been better off by not telling the community that their security had been compromised and their IP stolen. Withholding that information would mean that they were withholding prejudicial information from their shareholders (i.e. shareholders in Vivendi Universal). Valve had a responsibility to disclose this information. To not disclose would have left them open to legal actions. [/quote]

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