FBI Raid In Half Life 2 Source Code Theft

[Wheezer]

TheXerox writes "According to a recent weblog post, a San Francisco native had his house raided by the FBI last week, and 'lost upwards of 9 machines, and lots of misc equipment besides' in a seizure related to the theft of the Half-Life 2 source code from Valve Software." The scanned-in search warrant posted on the site indicates the FBI were looking for "...any IP addresses related to any of the Valve internal or external networks... Valve passwords and/or usernames... any and all items... related to Valve Software, Half-Life, Half-Life 2", and the Hungry Programmers page mentions that "...several Hungries were raided on January 14th by the FBI and Secret Service, and their computers seized."

 

[GhettoFob]

:Q

 

[Kenny]

Bleh

 

[Nocturnal]

repost.

 

[ThaGrandCow]

Originally posted by: Kenny
Bleh

I propose a new rule: repost nazi's can only call schenanigans if the prior post could legitimately be guessed in a search. I would have searched for "Half Life" and when I found nothing would have posted my new thread. "HL2" is rather odd and I don't blame this poster for the thread. You can't expect someone to search for every letter combination in the english language, can you?

 

[slag]

No one calls it half-life 2. Everyone (well, except the reposter) calls it HL2.

 

[xboxist]

Originally posted by: slag
No one calls it half-life 2. Everyone (well, except the reposter) calls it HL2.

I've never called it HL2...

 

[Dissipate]

I don't care if it is a repost. I hadn't seen this before.

 

[alm4rr]

here's the first hand account of the raid from the guy's blog

here