No, it isn’t, it’s standard operating procedure when a large company (this is Take 2 doing this, not Gearbox) believes it has a chance to lose large sums of money from someone possessing information that wasn’t released to the public. Using your logic, the police sending a couple of detectives over to question a…

Depends on what you’re doing. If you’re trying to figure out how deep this goes (and it sounds like the guy was selling access to his discord so you could see more secrets he hadn’t revealed publicly) or trying to figure out what someone has that you don’t know about yet, you send the investigators. And honestly its…

To my knowledge, no group has ever given out the exact time and place of a panel for any pax before the official schedule is released. What they didn’t show you is lower on that email, it says “Theater and time subject to change.” There’s also some legal mumbo about possible cancellation. I have a friend who’s run a…

But what if he gave you money to spit in your dinner? Or it was a crap dinner you didn’t want to eat anyway but its all you had lying around?

Its evolved. Pitchford announced a little acknowledged demo called 1v1 at Pax West a couple of years ago. It, supposedly, became the basis for gameplay in BL3.

Check his chanel, no playthroughs is why. It’s all borderlands leaks, theories and “histories of” stuff. That’s it.

Take 2 has said he’s lied about some of the situation, so its possible he’s lying about the strikes.

Now now, they were private investigators, so they’re hired, outside KGB to ask the questions and allow some deniability in case those guys do something illegal.

Not fishy at all. If Take 2 has evidence that someone inside leaked information to him, him having and distributing that information is a crime. There’s no journalistic protections here, you can’t legally publish non-public information about a private company unless it “benefits the greater good of the public at…

He admitted to using an exploit in the way Twitch works to access things he wasn’t support to have access to. That alone is a violation of the law. And since they sent investigators, I suspecting they got the leak internally and that guy either rolled on him, or they got the receipts.
If so, and someone was feeding…

Guys in suits, which most private investigators are, are hardly thugs. They’re usually former cops, and very nice, its part of their job. It’s also SOP for corporations trying to figure out the extent of an illegal leak.
And yes, the Discord shutdown was 100% correct. It’s a crime to publish non-public information…

I suspect they did find the leak, and from there, started looking into the person who was publishing said leaks. And yes, its illegal to publish non-public information from a private company unless you can show that information shows a crime, potential crime, or activity that would harm the public. These leaks meet…

Journalistic protections do NOT extend to leaking or publishing leaks about things in video games, ever. The only time you can legally publish a leak about a private company’s non-public information is if that information “benefits the greater good of the public at large”. He wasn’t exposing code that was going to…

Fishing on Twitch is not. Exploiting a loophole in the code to gain access to something you didn’t have access to, is. He admitted to using a exploit.

You tell them I have no comment and get a lawyer. They also didn’t say who they were working for (which is SOP). They start asking you about some illegal shit you did on YouTube, then yeah, you should be pissing your pants. You got caught.

None of that is “intimidation”, that’s all EXACTLY what a publisher should be doing about copyright violations and having trade secrets not available to the public being published. Not only that, he admitted to using an exploit in Twitch, which is absolutely a crime under the DMCA.
and yes, publishing leaks about a…

What might shock you is claiming you’re a journalist doesn’t automatically make you one and that sharing non-public information from a private company is totally a crime unless you can show the information is “of benefit to the greater public.” IE is it exposing something dangerous or shady or any sort of violation of…

They have him with trade secret and information not released to the public. They likely already found and dealt with the leak, now they’re stopping the people he leaked to from using the information illegally. They’re likely not charging him because of the stink it would make this close to the launch. I almost…

Journalist protections are NOT extended to publishing trade secrets of a private company unless said reporting “is in great interest to the public at large and benefits the public good with its exposure.” Sharing leaks does neither. Government follows a different set of rules, but its the same general idea, only…

Because video games makes people violent and twitch allows people to watch people play violent video games which in turn makes THEM violent so they’re doing what they can to stop the violent video games by being violent to the company that allows people to watch violent video games making them violent because our…