"Half-Life 2 Pirated Warez Version Info"

[tnoh]

Something very fun to read: http://halflife2.filefront.com/news/HalfLife_2_Pirated_Warez_Version_Info;13907

I'm glad Valve is doing things like this

edit: dunno if that's true, but i sure hope so

edit2: damn. wrong forum section. feel free to move.

[insta]

Sweet. Good job Valve

[st0lve]

Good idea.

[The Postman]

HAHAHA YES! I love it. Three cheers.

[Duff-e]

highly doubt this happening....so what if someone connects from a college network? they're going to block the entire campus from playing hl2...doubtful

i doubt this is even going to happen anyway.....it takes more then one person to look up the ip's and then have them banned off valve....and i highly doubt any game publisher, designer or anything having to do with the game will invest resources into something they know they could never control.

[Izuno]

highly doubt this happening....so what if someone connects from a college network? they're going to block the entire campus from playing hl2...doubtful

i doubt this is even going to happen anyway.....it takes more then one person to look up the ip's and then have them banned off valve....and i highly doubt any game publisher, designer or anything having to do with the game will invest resources into something they know they could never control.

well....actually, it is possible.

[Duff-e]

its possible....but it would exclude a shit load of potential customers....and $ = win

[ginsengavenger]

highly doubt this happening....so what if someone connects from a college network? they're going to block the entire campus from playing hl2...doubtful

ip banning is stupid and doesn't work. we have that problem with forumplanet.

what valve will do is ban the account which means the email address and any associated cd keys.

[Duff-e]

the account is a better idea.....but aside from the cd key i dont understand how you could figure out if someone is using a warez copy or a legal. eventually someone will figure out how to limit (impossible to stop) illegal downloading....but i doubt it will happen during the time of half life 2.

[theiggsta]

give it time, if people already figured out how to forge steam tickets, they can figure out how to crack steam out of hl2. Won't be long

[skdr]

Actually, something is happening. The warez-group, EMPORIO, who released the cracked version of HL2, was busted today.

[Skjalg]

cool...

I think this is the first step towards killing off warez stuff...

BUT!

since gabe actually said that they are the ones that released that in order to track down ppl, why would he do that? Then nobody will download THEIR cracked version once the word spreads out (there are allways 5-6 different ones from different crackers)...

perhaps he just lied, pretending to it, so no-one will dare to download that one, now he just have to figure out how to stop ppl from downloading the other 5...

Maybe im wrong, but im not so sure if valve actually would do this, because if they had, why would they say it?

[ginsengavenger]

/sigh... reminds of the people who said valve intentionally leaked the source in order to delay the release. gawd, gimme a break.

[FrieChamp]

Actually, something is happening. The warez-group, EMPORIO, who released the cracked version of HL2, was busted today.

I heard the version from that group was fake.

Anyway, as long as I don't see any statement about this directly from a Valve employee I won't believe anything.

[tnoh]

As far as I know that warez group with Emporio & Madoxxx existed. One guy at our irc channel pasted these lines yesterday:

offcial statement posted on #1.6 @ efnet time gmt +1

.:20·26·49:. ( @Cerian ) LISTEN UP

.:20·26·59:. ( @Cerian ) We don´t have a word from MaddoxX yet

.:20·27·07:. ( @Cerian ) so DON´T spread RUMORS!!!

.:20·27·12:. ( @Addictive ) but we KNOW he is busted

But again, who can be sure...