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Those 'leaked' Street Fighter IV pictures and information are true!
10:14 PM on 12.07.2007, Hamza CTZ Aziz 47 comments

Those 'leaked' Street Fighter IV pictures and information are true! photo
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OH SNAP! Some very interesting developments have occurred since I posted those "leaked" Street Fighter IV pictures and information yesterday. Kotaku found out that Ziff-Davis has gone after the Brazilian blog site, Blogeek, for posting the pictures and information. Visiting Blogeek now, the site has been taken down and Doug left up a message showing how terrified he is:

IT WAS NOT OUR INTENTION TO MESS WITH ANYONE. LIKE EVERY NEWS SITE AND BLOG, WE JUST WANTED TO PASS INFORMATION AS SOON AS POSSIBLE FOR THOSE WHO HAVE INTEREST FOR ANY SUBJECT.
JUST TO CLARIFY, WE DIDN'T HAVE ANY NDA, AND FAR LESS WE WOULD HACK ANYTHING FROM ZIFF DAVIS. A SOURCE CAME TO US AND PASSED SOME INFOS AND THE TWO PICTURES, AND WE PUBLISHED THEM.
ALTHOUGH WE STILL DON'T THINK WE SHOULD, WE REALLY WANT TO APOLOGIZE TO ANYONE WHO GOT HURT WITH THE INCIDENT.
ZIFF DAVIS WAS THREATENING US, AND WE ARE REALLY AFRAID, OF COURSE. THAT'S ALL.

Before you go feeling bad for the "little guy" because "the man" is trying to bring him down, you should hear the other side of the story. 

Turns out that Doug is a freelancer for EGM Brazil. Dan Hsu told Kotaku that they found proof that Doug stole the information from Ziff by abusing his working relationship with the company. Doug has also admitted to the theft as well. ZD is also angry at Kotaku for defending Blogeek and not contacting anyone at Ziff for the full story on this situation.

So lets recap: Blogeek stole an exclusive, Ziff brought the hammer down, Kotaku tried to stick up Blogeek, Ziff got angry at Kotaku for defending Blogeek and not searching for the whole truth, and the pictures and information are all over the place now including here at Destructoid. 

It all boils down to Doug and his jackassery for trying to get some easy hits by stealing content away from EGM which will be all over the place in a week anyway.  


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Y0j1mb0's Avatar
Y0j1mb0 at 12/07/2007 22:15
Alright Pitchforks and Torches on sale CHEAP here!
Shin Oni's Avatar
Shin Oni at 12/07/2007 22:16
it's quite sad that even now we're finding drama on the net. It's just a silly race of "who puts it up first"

I mean either way, people are gonna buy EGM mags. So i'm sure this didn't hurt anyone but Dougie himself.
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EternalDeathSlayer at 12/07/2007 22:19
Great picture
Scrixx's Avatar
Scrixx at 12/07/2007 22:20
Don't worry Jim, i'll be your lawyer :D

Sure we'll lose the case, but we'll lose it in STYLE :)
Sharpless's Avatar
Sharpless at 12/07/2007 22:20
That picture made me lawl.

Also, lawsuits are funny. I feel left out. I've never been sued. :(
Scape's Avatar
Scape at 12/07/2007 22:23
I CAN TYPE IN ALL CAPS TOO!!!
Necros's Avatar
Necros at 12/07/2007 22:28
"ALTHOUGH WE STILL DON'T THINK WE SHOULD, WE REALLY WANT TO APOLOGIZE"

That doesn't sound like they're really sorry.
Spectrum's Avatar
Spectrum at 12/07/2007 22:30
Really, keeping these things as exclusives to printed media is lame to begin with.
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MechaMonkey at 12/07/2007 22:33
Drama is dramatic.
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Def JM at 12/07/2007 22:41
It still looks good to me.
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SR388 at 12/07/2007 22:42
Amazing Picture. It sounds like Ziff-Davis Defiantly has the grounds to go forth with a lawsuit. This could get interesting, or get really boring!
Shin Oni's Avatar
Shin Oni at 12/07/2007 22:46
i'll go with getting really boring.

only thing interesting about this bit is the pic...which looks like he's hittin it hard there.
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DarkTetsuya at 12/07/2007 23:01
Well, the 'Sheng Long' thing makes more sense now, I wonder if that was a 'watermark' of sorts to see if anyone else would run the story before they could?
DynamicSheep's Avatar
DynamicSheep at 12/07/2007 23:03
@Jim "McMonocle" Sterling: "Destructoid needs to find something to sue. I don't wanna be left out of all the fun."

Sue Ziff Davis for not protecting their exclusive information well enough. This lack of protection caused "corrupt information" (hereafter known as "information") to be leaked onto the internet, which is where Destructoid (hereafter known as "you") resides. This "information" has tainted what was once the pristine utopia known as the internet, and as a result, has caused significant emotional and financial damages to "you".
Eschatos's Avatar
Eschatos at 12/07/2007 23:06
Wow, the ability to Hadoken hot women. Godlike.
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Billowman at 12/07/2007 23:13
@eschatos exactly what i was thinking!
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Pacman at 12/07/2007 23:17
you know your blog is hard up for info when you're stealing exclusives from your employer
Mxyzptlk's Avatar
Mxyzptlk at 12/07/2007 23:26
Stealing exclusives from Ziff Davis is cruise control for cool.
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yourfriendawk at 12/07/2007 23:28
video game blog sites = movie star paparazzi?! Two pics and a tiny ass story that's gonna be public in a little while? why not just save your job and post them the same day as when the mag hits. Personally, the more publicity for the game the better... but not bad publicity.
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Corak at 12/08/2007 00:24
There is no such ting as "he should have taken more care of the information so the guy couldn't get at it." It doesn't matter if he left the pictures on a table in a restaurant, or if he had them hidden in a safe. All that matters is you you you you you took them. How easy it may have been to get is irrelevant, I'll repeat that, its irrelevant. If in fact they were taken from him, without his consent, its considered stealing.

Try it sometime, take some woman's purse if she leaves it at a restaurant, don't attempt to give it back to her, and then get caught with it by her boyfriend, see what happens.
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Ghil at 12/08/2007 00:26
he actually threw his job away for 2 screens that would've been all over the net one week from now anyway?

"Ziff Davis are threatening us, and we are really afraid of course"

Is that an hint of sarcasm, or is he 12 years old and really afraid? o_0
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akathatoneguy at 12/08/2007 00:33
Between the caps and bad grammar ("INFOS"?), I think that dude has a great shot at being one of those foreign guy e-mail spammers who want to make a "deposit" into your account if the whole video game thing doesn't work out.
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Jayson Napolitano at 12/08/2007 00:51
@Corak

Whenever you post, I always seem to forget what the topic is even about. =D
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Orionsaint at 12/08/2007 01:29
pew! pew! pew!

BigKev's Avatar
BigKev at 12/08/2007 02:09
God, that picture is awesome.
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Fading Star at 12/08/2007 02:22
Lol @ the picture

This sucks. At least we have the information :D.
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B-Radicate at 12/08/2007 08:16
Don't people who work on the Internet understand the legality of their actions? You ARE held accountable for stuff you do on here. Guy's a jackass, 'nuff said.
007's Avatar
007 at 12/08/2007 09:58
LAWL..... @ pic.
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Usedtabe at 12/08/2007 11:08
Stupid Spainards and their stupid caps lock keys
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Dracon at 12/08/2007 11:34
Spainard, LOL

That is a smart one

You guys should go deeper about this and dont stop just because Hsu is bitching about it, somehow this case is reminding me the gamespot scandal.. but in the opposite way.
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NeoGamer at 12/08/2007 12:05
Hey, I am the owner of Blogeek. I just want to say that Dan Hsu is not telling the truth. I did NOT admit that I had access to the FTP and stole the pics, because I didn't. That's right, I write some things to EGM Brasil, but I'm just a freelancer. Do you really think that they would give the ftp password to a freelancer?! Think about it.

I had a source who gave me the pics and info. But of course, it's so easy to think that the stronger side is right. They will keep accusing me until I reveal who my source is, that's the point. I was set and done with Ziff. I put the images and the site down, and apologized, just as they asked me to. And now they come with this. I'm really surprised.
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imbeta at 12/08/2007 15:04
Oooooh... It JUST got that much better. (NeoGamer)

This post is entirely full of WIN. So much so - that my hang-over has taken 2nd position in my mind for the last 5 minutes.

Sweet.
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loserguy at 12/08/2007 17:19
Yeah, I read about the whole thing just the other day, and I even sent the story to KOTAKU themselves but they never put it up. Funny huh? Here's the full link:

http://popzara.com/page.php?id=69

Also that street fighter hadoken ass pic is AWESOME! Can u imagine??
BADInc's Avatar
BADInc at 12/08/2007 20:35
that picture demonstrates perfectly in a strange way how ive always imagined streetfighter
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mashedbuttons at 12/08/2007 22:57
okay... Ive been playing alot of Pheonix Wright and I think I got a case for you guys

you should sue Neogamer for putting you into the risk of being sued by posting potentially (whether ACTUALLY or not) illegal pictures by putting them on his site. Hes tampered with your reputation and damaged your valuable brand.

Neogamer if you want to defend yourself your gonna need to let me poke at your story with a stylus.


PS. The idea of Street Fighter 4 gives me chills in my spine and I am so incredibly gratefull that you got these pictures for me a week before EGM would have. A week in excited gamer time is a hundred weeks in real person time... and since theres millions of street fighter fans youve basically saved the collective world hundreds of millions of weeks of time.

Even if you go to jail for the rest of your life (I hear there pretty bad in Brazil) you STILL will have contributed more to the betterment of the world than most people. I'm so sorry I'm gonna have to get all Pheonix Wright on that ass
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deanhatescoffee at 12/09/2007 02:51
SFIV is gonna rock. Long live 2D non-photo-realistic fighting games!
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Holyetheline at 12/09/2007 08:34
Oh hey that's pretty interesting.
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A Goomba at 12/09/2007 15:42
Fuck Street Fighter IV! IMA GETTIN ME A DREAMCASTA!!
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Novakaine at 12/09/2007 17:17
Heh heh, that picture is a bit distracting.
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TheStripe at 12/09/2007 18:21
Isn't that more of a 'Ho-douken?
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Snaileb at 12/11/2007 09:01
The picture is so awesome.
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