From StÈfan S.;Guardian Unlimited | Online | The net’s sleuths is a story about the fan community helping track down the hackers who stole the beta of Half-Life 2. It isn’t clear what the fan community did other than pass tips.
A quote from Gabe Newell, Valve’s managing director,
The second investigation was run by the gaming community. Fairly quickly after the source code was leaked, we sent out mail to the gaming community appealing for assistance in tracking down the perpetrators. We set up an email alias for people to submit information, and amassed thousands of pieces of evidence in a few days. That information was also redistributed within the community itself, as a smaller group took it upon itself to unmask the people. This non-traditional approach had the advantage of scale and of involving a large number of very sophisticated and motivated people.
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