Stolen... for a meaning where stolen doesn't actually mean stolen, right?
They're probably using the music and film industry definition of stolen (meaning downloaded).
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#12Injected properly, they could've used all those GPUs for mining
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#13> But it is unlikely that any mainstream competitor to EA would ever use such stolen data.
I appreciate them acknowledging this fact. It bothers me how many people think that leaking the source code of a game engine is an actual problem for the company.
Just because the code is available doesn't give you a license to use it. And the ones that don't care about having a license would not have used / payed for it in the first place.
Regarding knowhow behind modern engines, Unreal and CRYENGINE's source code is available on GitHub. Engineers often publish research papers about their methods and reverse engineering isn't as infeasible as one might think initially.
Also, speaking about Frostbite and what we've read about in the past (see Anthem), I highly doubt a developer can be productive using it while lacking official support.
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#14Stolen... for a meaning where stolen doesn't actually mean stolen, right?
I agree. I think "illegally cloned" would be a more accurate headline while still having as much clickbait as the author intended.
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#15> 'No risk to players' > "We are investigating a recent incident of intrusion into our network where a limited amount of game source code and related tools were stolen," an EA spokesperson said in a statement. Valve hasn't fixed TF2 since source leaked over a year ago, game is still unplayable on most servers due to bots
What are you on about? The TF2 Source leak has not revealed any new vulnerabilities, and is not the cause of the bot infestation. Valve's inability to maintain a game, sure, but it isn't related.
I thought it was related, the bots appeared ~3 months after the leak. I'm sure src leak contributed to it.
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#16> But it is unlikely that any mainstream competitor to EA would ever use such stolen data. I appreciate them acknowledging this fact. It bothers me how many people think that leaking the source code of a game engine is an actual problem for the company. Just because the code is available doesn't give you a license to use it. And the ones that don't care about having a license would not have used / payed for it in the…
Yeah, I think the only ones that will actually make use of that are cheat developers and maybe game modders to obtain a deeper insight in the game.
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#17> But it is unlikely that any mainstream competitor to EA would ever use such stolen data. I appreciate them acknowledging this fact. It bothers me how many people think that leaking the source code of a game engine is an actual problem for the company. Just because the code is available doesn't give you a license to use it. And the ones that don't care about having a license would not have used / payed for it in the…
After watching Battlefield 2042 trailer I am interested whether they have a new version of Frostbite.
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#18Time to ban cryptocurrencies so this never happens again!
Let's ban the internet
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#19Earlier quoted context omitted.
What are you on about? The TF2 Source leak has not revealed any new vulnerabilities, and is not the cause of the bot infestation. Valve's inability to maintain a game, sure, but it isn't related.
I thought it was related, the bots appeared ~3 months after the leak. I'm sure src leak contributed to it.
Yeah it reveals the structs and general logic to talk to the server and allows shimmed clients to be written for it.
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#20> "Source code is a version of computer software which is usually much easier to read and understand than the end version in a finished product, and could be used to reverse engineer parts of the product."
This excerpt is another example of why we need better computer literacy, starting with journalists.