Abram Rickards wrote on Jul 6, 2011, 16:36:
There is a serious error being made by those posters who are arguing that since the leaked "demo" generated strong positive buzz about the game the offenders who leaked the game to the Internet should be pardoned of their crime. The fact still remains that they committed a crime. They knowingly and intentionally accessed a private server using the credentials of a member of the press and proceeded to upload files to the Internet not intended for either their or our consumption. Whether this act increased preorders or not does not mitigate the fact that what they did is criminal and liable for prosecution.