It shouldn’t need to be said but don’t download and play the early build of Wolverine that’s now out in the wild. If you do, you’re in direct violation of copyright law, and as recent posts on social media platforms have shown, you’re very easily tracked.
On Twitter, posts have recently started surfacing showing DMCA notices being issued by Insomniac Games through Internet Service Providers (ISPs) like Comcast. It’s far too easy for these corporations to monitor your online activity, and that of course includes illegally downloading and sharing in-development builds of games that were leaked during a data heist.
They’ll Find You
In one post that surfaced on Twitter, it was stressed by Comcast:
The copyright owner has identified the IP address associated with your Xfinity internet account at the time as the source of the infringing works … We remind you that use of our service in any manner that constitutes an infringement of any copyrighted work is a violation of Comcast’s DMCA policy and may result in the termination of your service and account.
In the DMCA notice, everything from the time and date of the download to the specific filename of the dev build was recorded – absolutely nothing slips past your ISP.
It was just days ago that more than a terabyte of stolen data was aired from Insomniac Games by a ransomware group that failed to secure any funds for the content. This included roadmaps, dev builds, code, and the personal information of employees past and present. The act was slammed by thousands online and in the days that followed, countless spoilers for the upcoming Wolverine game were spread like wildfire over social media.
PSA: Don’t illegally download stolen data.
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