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I just heard that Microsoft corp. sued a man one billion dollars for somehow putting the halo 2 game on the internet (i WANT that!!!!) is that really true??? anyway... halo 2 would be HUGE like,... 2 or 3 gigs maybe...... so... is that really true??

I think that this is probably a rumour, I doubt that they would be able to sue the man for the mere fact that hardly anyone has that money, and it would take everything to pay it up, also, afaik, you can only be sued for your net worth.

You could probably find halo 2, but I wouldn't download it if I were you.

i heard that they were suing him $10k per leaked copy.

Why dont u just buy the game

If it was a PC game, it would be at least EASY to play a downloaded copy... but the Xbox is quite harder, what with the modding and such... I don't know why they just don't buy the damn thing

Anyway, $1 billion seems like a hell of a lot. And it would probably be about 4 GB, since the Xbox DVD can hold 4.7 GB...

Meh, it was actually about 2.7 GB compressed, but then it had to be ripped to a DVD, and a bunch of other stuff done to the Xbox so that it would play a DVD that didnt have a special security signature or some crap...

Edit:  Certain... *sites* tell me that it is just over 2800 MB.

Meh, One BILLION?  I think not.  Considering they made about 100 million on the first day... one billion seems like a lot.

lol
yeah i think it would just be better to buy the game
i mean.... dling a 3 gig file, modding it and alll that crap... it would be pretty hard...

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Originally posted by 3van
lol
yeah i think it would just be better to buy the game
i mean.... dling a 3 gig file, modding it and alll that crap... it would be pretty hard...

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You need to have a modded xbox to play downlaoded/burned games anyways (which is also illegal).

my friend said $7.6mil

I doubt the person who leaked Halo 2  would have that much money.

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Originally posted by traxor
I doubt that they would be able to sue the man for the mere fact that hardly anyone has that money

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That isn't a reason why they can't sue him for that amount of money. You can sue anyone for anything. It's the judge who decides. (although 1 billion is a bit absurd)

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Originally posted by 3van
anyway... halo 2 would be HUGE like,... 2 or 3 gigs maybe...... so... is that really true??

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Full movies, games, etc. from multiple GB big are "shared" illegaly every second around world. This is very possible; log into an P2P network and you'll see that several GB's aren't any problem...

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Originally posted by Caboose
but the Xbox is quite harder, what with the modding and such...

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Originally posted by The One
but then it had to be ripped to a DVD, and a bunch of other stuff done to the Xbox so that it would play a DVD that didnt have a special security signature or some crap...

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Believe me, that's all taken care of when you download such illegal stuff.

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Originally posted by Caboose
And it would probably be about 4 GB, since the Xbox DVD can hold 4.7 GB...

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Any single layered DVD can hold up 4.7 GB, the Xbox DVD's aren't anything special. This also doesn't mean that the game is 4GB.

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Originally posted by blade
You need to have a modded xbox to play downlaoded/burned games anyways (which is also illegal).

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Not always, you can make a perfect 1-to-1 copy of DVD's, CD's, etc. (including copy protection!). And there are also things like emulators for the PC (and they do work).



All this just to say, that doing all this illegal crap is very easy and doesn't require anything hard to do. This also means that fighting such activity is extremely hard to do for companies and the law. Although measures are taken and yes people get sued all the time for doing such things (in masses).

btw, the German hacker who leaked Halo 2 Half-Life 2 before it was finished is now behind the bars for a while and had to pay a huge fine. And I also heared/read of another case were someone was selling copied discs on the black market, he also won some freetime behind the bars and a fine...

EDIT: The One, yeah, sorry...   it was Half-Life 2....