The studio Insomniac Games, behind the future Wolverine game, is asking internet service providers to warn all those who have downloaded the version distributed by pirates. They are ordered to delete it from their computer.
It’s not just the smartphones who are victims of numerous leaks before their release. THE video games, especially the most anticipated, also pay the price. Except that in this case, the information revealed very often comes from the studio piracy in charge of the project. Rockstar Games is well placed to know this: at the end of 2022, 90 GTA 6 gameplay videos are revealed on the Internet. But there is worse. When hackers from the Rhysida group, which specializes in ransomware, recover data from Insomniac Games, they demand money from the studio. Otherwise they will broadcast everything they have on the Web.
The hackers don’t see the money coming, so they run and the game Marvel’s Wolverine is revealed, among other things. Artworks, gameplay videos, project roadmaps, personal information of employees… The leak is massive, 1.67 TB of data For 1.3 million files. Worse: in the pile, there is a playable version of Wolverine. Far from being finished, of course, but functional. A nightmare for Insomniac Games and Sony who are seeing reviews and “test” videos flourish for the game supposed to be released in 2025 only. They have no choice but to counterattack.
If you play the pirated version of the upcoming Wolverine game, you will receive a message from your internet service provider
Several people testify to having received a message from their internet service provider. In the latter, we can read that it is a DMCA request (copyright infringement) from Sony. You will have understood: the group asked ISPs toidentify those who downloaded the pirated version of Marvel’s Wolverine. L’IP adress of the person incriminated appears in the message, as well as the name of illegally obtained file.
It is not a question of lawsuits or sanctions, At least for the moment. The message states that the user must delete the file in question from all machines on which it is located. It remains to be seen how will ISPs be able to verify that this has been done correctly?. And even so, it is very easy to copy everything to an external medium before deleting it from the computer.
Internet service providers are sending DMCA notices to people who downloaded the leaked Marvel’s Wolverine play build pic.twitter.com/zcnl9C6vli
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