...seems a bit strange that I’ve noticed replies (both my own and others’) disappearing or suddenly going into “Pending Approval” when replying to Chestgranter.

This isn’t exactly news but as stated in the article -

This is a video game... none of this information is important information that the media has a responsibility to report on. They do have a responsibility to do their due-diligence and determine the source of their information.

You got a receipt from a table on the side walk? Okay, sure... so then you hand over the receipt and now the table on the sidewalk is held responsible for selling stolen goods.

But if someone on the overnight cleaning crew swipes the document from a desk and that’s the source of the information, then that employee didn’t have legitimate access and the information is considered stolen.

Okay, buying a watch from a table on the sidewalk, then. It’s not hard to revise analogies.

The point of verifying the source is to verify the accuracy of the information

To be fair - we have no idea what they tried or if they tried at all.

It’s not clear from this article.

So if I go to a pawn shop and fail to confirm that a watch they have for sale wasn’t stolen, I’m complicit in the robbery? I’m a thief?

And in that 6 months, they should have tried to verify the source.

Think about it this way: in a criminal trial, the prosecution is supposed to prove that the defendant is guilty, not the other way around.

No, the pawn shop is complicit and you lose the watch.

It would be considered a violation of an NDA from the employee. Take-Two would likely never know who that employee was but would perform an internal investigation and clamp down on security. But the site would not be implicit on posting a leak from a source they verified came from the company.

A news outlet is complicit in the stealing of information just because they published it months later after they confirmed it was real?

And wouldn’t the burden of proof lie with the Plaintiff (Take-Two)?

It is considered theft from the employee (really a violation of NDA) but not the site that published the leak. The site would be in no violation (just likely blacklisted). The issue in this case is - the site is unaware of the source.

Microsoft has started to recover a bit with their Game Pass service that seems to be doing quite well. But, yeah, we’ll see what happens next generation.

I wouldn’t say Microsoft went all-in on all the wrong things. Most of the things they were pushing, people actually expect or desire now.

The disastrous start for XB1 wasn’t the result of any leaks on specs - it was the result of a larger push MS made towards the digital only future at E3 when people still weren’t ready for it. They walked back a lot of their decisions but it didn’t matter - I work at a Publisher/Developer and have made games for the…