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by PostOnce 5917 days ago
It's not Ebola, and these are all people who worked on Toy Story. John Carmack isn't going to leak Doom 4. I'm pretty sure he can be trusted with that one.

Why would you give away your life's work to some thieving bastard on the internet who you'd never met and didn't care about you, anyway?
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dschobel 5916 days ago
Not John Carmack, but what about a junior dev? What about the QA people? How far down the chain do you go with who gets to take a copy home?

On a large operation you can't rule out the bitter ex-employee factor either.

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PostOnce 5916 days ago
If you were a junior programmer at id, would you torrent your work? I doubt it. Leaks nearly always come from outside the company, meaning copies sent to reviewers etc.

If you have a guy working for you who would leak something you're working on, the solution isn't to not allow people to take things home, it's to fire people who would harm your company.

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