Adam91 Posted May 17, 2012 Report Share Posted May 17, 2012 Activision Tried To Dig Up Dirt On Ex-Call of Duty Developers The ugly court battle between Activision and its former employees has gotten even uglier. According to documents obtained by The Los Angeles Times and released today, Activision hired a man named Thomas Fenady to "dig up dirt" on Call of Duty creators Jason West and Vince Zampella so the company could build up a case to fire them. The newspaper reports that Fenady was asked to hack into West and Zampella's voicemail, e-mail, and computers in an operation code-named "Project Icebreaker." {C} Sounds like a spy movie, doesn't it? As the Times writes: Fenady testified that he expressed concern about the project but was told, "Don't worry about the repercussions." Fenady found an outside company, InGuardians, who also balked at the task because of "legal hurdles." Stymied, Fenady approached the company's Facilities Department and talked about staging a "fake fumigation" and a "mock fire drill" in order to get West and Zampella away from their computers long enough to copy files on their computers. Ultimately, Activision did none of those things. Activision declined to comment on the documents, as did attorneys for the developers. According to the Times' Ben Fritz, Activision's request to delay the court trial was denied and it will proceed on May 29. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Vitamin Pwn Posted May 17, 2012 Report Share Posted May 17, 2012 wow really? this makes me hate activision even more. Nice find Adam! 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ΠΘVΛ Posted May 17, 2012 Report Share Posted May 17, 2012 Thats disgusting. We should be looking at the video game business as a bunch of nice, friendly, humerus and a competitive group of people sharing their ideas on something they love to work on. Instead this sounds like money minded, greedy people. The video game business has flourished and has become a multi billion dollar one, attracting money minded, uncreative and unhumerus people like moths to a flame. This is very sad. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MCPO Mayh3m Posted May 18, 2012 Report Share Posted May 18, 2012 wow really? this makes me hate activision even more. Nice find Adam! And to think that Bungie is getting involved in this mess. So sad. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Twinreaper Posted May 18, 2012 Report Share Posted May 18, 2012 Bungie has nothing to worry about. Bungie held their own against Microsoft. In corporate sabotage and pricey lawyers...Activision would get spanked by Microsoft every day of the week. If Bungie survuved bedding the MS Giant, Activision will be like sunday brunch with Aunt Gurtrude Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Quantum Posted May 18, 2012 Report Share Posted May 18, 2012 Ok, I know the whole situation is bad, but imagine how badass that guy would feel after sneaking up and copying those files. Mission Impossible 5: Nerd Goes Spy. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ZB-85 Posted May 18, 2012 Report Share Posted May 18, 2012 Wow, Activision use to be one of my favorite companies. But after this, I am just appalled at what they did. I truly thought that they were better than that, I guess a lot of people were mistaken. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Anarchy Posted May 18, 2012 Report Share Posted May 18, 2012 I already hate Activision for making CoD MW3 not very good but hacking, thats not cool :thumbdown: Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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