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The popular MMORP space game, EVE Online, received a blow this week as a disgruntled employee or player has released the client source code on the Internet via turrents. CCP’s response to their source code being leaked, ban people who inquire about it on their forums, search for IPs downloading the torrent and ban them as well. CCP is no joke, their forums have stated that anyone even talking about it will get banned. Now, they could just mean getting banned from the forums, but I doubt anyone would risk it.

Reports are being posted that CCP is seeding the source code to trace IP addresses back to player accounts for banning. I hope they understand that some people do play through proxy servers and IP banning can ruin this for a lot of people. (continue reading…)