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.
Contest:
10:14 PM on 12.07.2007
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I mean either way, people are gonna buy EGM mags. So i'm sure this didn't hurt anyone but Dougie himself.
Sure we'll lose the case, but we'll lose it in STYLE :)
Also, lawsuits are funny. I feel left out. I've never been sued. :(
That doesn't sound like they're really sorry.
only thing interesting about this bit is the pic...which looks like he's hittin it hard there.
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".
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.
"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
Whenever you post, I always seem to forget what the topic is even about. =D
This sucks. At least we have the information :D.
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.
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.
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.
http://popzara.com/page.php?id=69
Also that street fighter hadoken ass pic is AWESOME! Can u imagine??
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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