Bohemia staff arrested for espionage on island Arma 3 recreates

Greece has arrested two members of Arma 3 developer Bohemia Interactive, accusing them of committing espionage as they took photos and videos of military facilities on Lemnos. The Greek island, you see, is one of several in the Aegean Sea which Iran invades in the near-future military simulator. Their highly likely-sounding defence is that they were gathering reference material.

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Greece has arrested two members of Arma 3 developer Bohemia Interactive, accusing them of committing espionage and taking photos and videos of military facilities on Lemnos as they holidayed. The Greek island, you see, is one of several in the Aegean Sea which Iran invades in the near-future military simulator.

The Greek site News247 reports that the two unnamed Czechs were arrested in the village of Platy on Lemnos on Sunday and have been charged with espionage. They were reportedly found with footage of local military camps and installations.

"This is true," Bohemia CEO Marek Španěl responded to the arrets on its forums. "We prefer this topic not to be discussed on our forums atm, at least until we know more specific details about the case."

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    September 11, 2012 8:15 AM

    Alice O'Connor posted a new article, Bohemia staff arrested for espionage on island game recreates.

    Greece has arrested two members of Arma 3 developer Bohemia Interactive, accusing them of committing espionage as they took photos and videos of military facilities on Lemnos. The Greek island, you see, is one of several in the Aegean Sea which Iran invades in the near-future military simulator. Their highly likely-sounding defence is that they were gathering reference material.

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      September 11, 2012 8:38 AM

      "Our military secrets!"

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      September 11, 2012 9:07 AM

      good marketing for Arma3 :D

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      September 11, 2012 9:11 AM

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        September 11, 2012 9:13 AM

        No they aren't. Chatty content doesn't get posted to front page as articles.

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          September 11, 2012 9:16 AM

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            September 11, 2012 9:26 AM

            I think you significantly overestimate the amount of traffic that the chatty has. We probably have 2000 active chatty members. Based off single user page traffic, that's probably less than 1% of all visitors to shacknews.

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      September 11, 2012 9:16 AM

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        September 11, 2012 9:22 AM

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        September 11, 2012 9:24 AM

        Why? What's so awful about it? How does this hurt you so greatly that we need to remove a useful feature from the website?

        Yes, some things get duplicated but huzzah, everything is posted at least three times anyway as people trip over each other reposting from Reddit.

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        September 11, 2012 9:24 AM

        No.

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        September 11, 2012 10:11 AM

        You cannot cross the streams.

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          September 11, 2012 12:04 PM

          Unless there is a giant marshmallow man. BUT ONLY THEN!

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        September 11, 2012 10:12 AM

        Just don't post in the news thread and like most they will just slip into the ether that is page 2 and beyond. It actually looks like if people didn't complain about the redundancy, that's exactly what would have happened with this one.

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        September 11, 2012 12:15 PM

        Sometimes news stories catch on in the chatty before someone else posts the story. There's not really a clean way to split it and it's fine enough as it is.

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      September 11, 2012 1:40 PM

      Because of the merging subthread, this was very nearly the one time the frontpage news thread overtook the user-posted thread in terms of volume.

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