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Comment by michaelt | Hacker News Reader

  OK, so what were they going to do with the evil
  cracker's passwords.... steal from him?

Presumably get access to invitation-only torrent sites? To distribute more malware / gather IP addresses for prosecution?

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By giving the same malware to all their customers??? And all those people are supposed to just take their word for it that they didn't use it on everyone else? This is about as non-frivolous as a lawsuit can get. if I'm the customers of this product I would sue them into the ground, there's no way they take this to court. And with that public statement they made flat-out admitting to it's use that's evidence at this studio's boss' criminal proceedings. What kind of goddamned morons OK the use of a tactic like this?

Get their Paypal credentials and pay for the game using fake purchases?

And then get shutdown by PayPal for violating the ToS by transferring money into your own account unauthorized. How would that help?

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