Whoops, 3 Million Copies Of Dirt 3 Just Went Missing

Publishers Codemasters and graphics card manufacturer AMD have been running a promotion lately whereby purchasers of a card got a free copy of excellent racer Dirt 3. That offer has now been, uh, slightly expanded.

It seems Codemasters had the reserved download codes for the promo — estimated at around three million copies of the game — sitting on one of its web servers in plain sight, and over the past couple of days that list has been accessed and passed around, giving anyone who has seen it a free copy of Dirt 3.

While this might seem like an online looter’s Christmas come early, there’s a catch: the codes are Steam codes, meaning that should Codemasters (or Valve) decide to take action, all they’d need to do would be to go down the list and block the codes for the game. And that’s a best-case scenario for “thieves”, one that doesn’t involve banning.

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