A 12TB Steam “teraleak” spills more than a decade of lost PC gaming history
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一份约12TB的Steam“teraleak”数据泄露事件近日引发关注，内容涵盖2003年至2013年间Steam平台上几乎所有游戏的存档数据。该数据集源自Valve已废弃的“Steam2”服务器架构，通过BitTorrent传播，包含数千个“depot”，涉及公开版本及大量未公开的预发布、原型和试玩版本。泄露内容截至2013年，因当年Valve将内容分发系
Here at Ars, we're intimately familiar with data leaks surrounding Valve's games, hardware, and the workings of Steam itself. But nothing could have prepared us for this weekend's "terarelease" encompassing more than 12TB of content related to seemingly every title available on Steam between 2003 to 2013.
What's being sold as an "as-complete-as-possible ... content server dump" of Steam's defunct "Steam2" server architecture from that time period is now circulating around via a BitTorrent tracker that Valve seems unlikely to ever completely purge from the Internet. The massive collection includes thousands of "depots" representing what seems to be every version of every game uploaded to those old Steam2 servers. That includes public release builds, of course, but in many cases also covers previously unseen pre-release, prototype, and playtest versions of popular titles published by Valve and third-party Steam publishers.
Steam2: Electric Boogaloo
The reason this weekend's leaked content cuts off abruptly in 2013 is because that's when Valve updated its content distribution system from "Steam2" to the current SteamPipe system. In moving from a proprietary file distribution format to standard HTTP file trees, the new system removed various update approval bottlenecks on Valve's end and streamlined update and patch downloads so they only reflected file differentials.
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