Deus Ex Leakers Targeted by Lawsuit

Prior to E3, an unfinished version of Deus Ex: Human Revolution was leaked onto the Internet. With the game not coming out until August, what was made available was a preview build intended only for the media. In response, it's come to light that Square Enix is suing fifteen unidentified individuals.

The lawsuit (PDF) was filed on June 22 in Washington. The reason for that is the leak happened through Steam, the digital distribution service owned by Bellevue, Washington-based Valve.

Among those who were allowed to access the preview build was someone working for Italian magazine Giochi per il Mio Computer. This individual's Steam account was logged into on May 29 -- without permission -- by "one or more" of the 15 defendants from an IP address that doesn't belong to the magazine. The game files were then copied (again, by one or more people) and distributed on BitTorrent. From there, it ended up being downloaded and distributed across the Internet.

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