The boy who stole half-life 2

unwashed potato! · 22 Feb 2011 at 10:57

The game was costing the company $1 million a month to build

Hzza · 22 Feb 2011 at 10:59

Was shown this by someone else this morning, very interesting.

Doggie2k · 22 Feb 2011 at 11:09

Aedus said:
Isn't that illegal, to offer the guy a job to get him to come to the country just to arrest him?

thats how the land of the free operates. Dont know how much of that story I can believe but the german police was right! He was damn lucky not to get on that plane.

ThomasTheTankEngine · 22 Feb 2011 at 11:13

Interesting to hear the full story.

I downloaded the leak when it came out, but iirc couldn't get it to work properly. Downloading games in 2003 wasn't uncommon.... lots of people had broadband back then.

Judgeneo · 22 Feb 2011 at 11:14

I had no idea about this, very interesting read.

ElDude · 22 Feb 2011 at 11:15

This seems a bit of a pointless article. As far as I can see, it's to do nothing more than gain popularity for that lad.

Relating to the internet comment, back in 2003 my local college had a network that makes standard connections, even today look like the slowest dial up that was ever available. I believe it was called the JANET network, although I may be wrong, it was a while ago.

Witor · 22 Feb 2011 at 11:28

Aaahh JANET, way back in 1999 playing Q2 on it was sublime.

Knubje · 22 Feb 2011 at 11:33

Interesting article. Thanks OP.

Vulcan · 22 Feb 2011 at 12:31

Good read.

Pate · 22 Feb 2011 at 13:32

$1,000,000 a month to build?

Bloody hell.

Gashman · 22 Feb 2011 at 18:56

wonder if George Hotz will wake up to gun barrels in his bed someday for all the trouble he has potentially caused Sony! or is it just shoot on sight? :confused:

nshire · 22 Feb 2011 at 20:25

Gashman said:
wonder if George Hotz will wake up to gun barrels in his bed someday for all the trouble he has potentially caused Sony! or is it just shoot on sight?

Sony are bunch of.....

nothing wrong modifying your own devices.

we do it all the time with overclocking making it perform as it shouldn't.

he just makes it perform things it shouldn't eg jailbreaking

Should AMD chase after the person who found out a way to hack a 6950 to a 6970 or unlocking cores on CPU's and many other examples.

yes jailbreaking can run illegal content but its also can be used to run other things homebrew other media cababilties even folding with sony originally with "Other OS" than sony removed as a knee jerk reaction.

Guest2 · 22 Feb 2011 at 20:43

Gembe sounds like a genious. Valve should give him a job in network security or something

dirtybeatfreak · 22 Feb 2011 at 23:16

great post, thanks

Curunen · 23 Feb 2011 at 00:09

Interesting article, thanks for posting.

Macky · 23 Feb 2011 at 00:39

After reading that I did a quick google of reverse engineering malware and came across this. http://zeltser.com/reverse-malware-paper/ Most of it is over my head but an interesting read never the less. It was written in 2001 mind you.