Valve Takes the Offensive on Warez Users?

Drull writes "It's claimed by a poster on filefront.com that Valve might have released a "Warez" version of Half-Life 2 to monitor and ban those who attempt to use it. This is the news from some guy with a filefront account, so take it with a grain of salt.

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bummer...

[advocate_one]

there goes another keyboard... coffee all over it and the monitor as well.... please warn people by wrapping your posts in sarcasm tags in future... ;)

Re:Just asking for trouble

[recursiv]

So far most crack authors have been very good about being minimalist and unintrusive, but someday, with some crack, they're going to fuck you.

As early as 3 years ago, I had seen warez installers that came bundled with stealth ftp servers and backdoor zombie agents.

Did I say I saw? I mean, it was... a good friend of mine... I tried telling him to use legitimate software, but you know how those warez monkeys are.

Slashdot's New Motto

[wramsdel]

"Slashdot: Rumors for Nerds. Stuff that may or may not be true."

You know,

[Anonymous Coward]

for a sleepy little village in Mexico, Warez sure gets a lot of coverage on the web.

Re:sounds reliable

[MrEd]

Note: "Warez" refers to the illegal pirating of software such as games and applications for distribution on the Internet.

Note: "Grits" refers to ... what the hell does it refer to again?

Re:Take a lesson

[maddskillz]

You actually look at the manual? Are you sure you belong here?

Re:Maybe it could hurt Valve more

[gosand]

Valve, having locked the potential customer out of Steam, will have lost a customer.

ObSimpsons quote:

Homer: You just lost yourself a customer!
CHA-CHING
Moe: Wha? I'm sorry, Homer I couldn't hear you
Homer: I said you just lost yourself a customer!
CHA-CHING
Moe: Huh?
Homer: You just lost yourself a customer!
CHA-CHING
Moe: Homer you're going to have to speak up!
Homer: You just lost yourself a customer, Moe!
CHA-CHING
Moe: I've forced myself to wha?
Homer: You just lost yourself a customer!
CHA-CHING
Moe: Homer.. I'll talk to you tomorrow!
Homer: You just lost yourself a customer!
CHA-CHING
Moe: Yeah you can use it!

And...

[kjeldor]

In related news, last night in #teen-chat, cHeRrYbLossOM697 responded to the question "a/s/l" with "200/m/NJ". Although sources have not yet been confirmed, jounalists are now saying that we may have uncovered the oldest living human.

Re:Half-Life 2 for FREE, no warez, no crack

[Anonymous Coward]

what kind of retard uploads a png of a text file? *sigh*

I guess it is to stop Valve from searching for it on google, rather than just asking for it on IRC, and going to the ISP to get the page taken down...

Anyway, unplug the network connection at the right time, and run from a short cut, not Steam.

Or just buy it, its not that expenive.

Re:Unlikely, but a nifty idea

[Anonymous Coward]

... back-doors which will do nasty things to your computer, make the ice cream in your freezer go bad and even have sex with your grandmother.

Grannie might suddenly be in favor of these back doors, then. Ever since gramps kicked the bucket, she's been lonely.

Steam = dongle

[kin_korn_karn]

I'm not buying HL2 because it sounds like this Steam auth bullshit is the 21st century internet-enabled version of dongles. It's a game, not a $10k commercial software package. Get the fuck over yourselves, Valve.

Re:Take a lesson

[Fulcrum of Evil]

12-14 yr olds don't generally have $50-60 to blow

No they don't, but their parents do.

Re:Take a lesson

[junkgrep]

What great friends you have! "We're very sad to hear that you don't steal shit like us!"

how do i get past the level

[planckscale]

Where there's a scientist that says "You're playing a cracked copy, there's no way to get out of this room, so you might as well play with my pet head crab."

Re:Take a lesson

[i wanted another nam]

The foremost question on my mind is, "Who the fuck would want to copy a ford?!"

Re:Take a lesson... From Microsoft?

[matts-reign]

Wait a second: This isn't a borg collective? Since when? Why did nobody told me? I liked our borg overlords.

Re:Take a lesson

[themaidtricks]

The foremost question on my mind is, "Who the fuck would want to copy a ford?!"

If everybody thought like that, the solution to stopping piracy would be to create terrible products.