Valve Cracks Down on 20,000 Users 1942
An anonymous reader writes "Valve have disabled 20,000 steam user accounts belonging to users who have been caught using a pirated version of the game, or have attempted to use a cdkey to bypass the securom protection found on the retail version of the game. The Steam Forums have been swamped with people now claiming they are unable to play, many claiming they have had their accounts disabled for no reason. A Valve spokesman says, 'The number of people who actually had bought HL2 and used the CD key cheat was VERY small. VERY small. Most people just tried to rip off the game and not bother buying it.'" People are discovering that when you buy any product that is subject to "activation", you haven't really bought anything.
Securom protection (Score:5, Funny)
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It's not that hard to play a pirated version of it (Score:5, Funny)
Go on usenet, find the appropriate cracks. Enjoy. The end.
See how easy that was?
Re:michael: STFU (Score:5, Funny)
Then you don't read
-Charles
Re:Just Say No To Activation (Score:5, Funny)
The doctor says, "You must be Polish, right?"
"How'd you know?"
"Your finger is broken."
("Those damn software companies. How dare they use product activation to help curb piracy? Well just for that, I'm going to pirate their stuff until they stop!" Yeah. I'm sure that's likely to convince them.)
Re:Securom protection (Score:5, Funny)
I too read it like that. Although, wouldn't scrotum protection rather be a load of ball-locks?
Perhaps innocent until proven guilty? (Score:5, Funny)
Lies, damned lies! (Score:5, Funny)
Not true, not true!
If you buy the Half Life 2 Collector's Edition, you get a shirt!
Re:CD hack? (Score:2, Funny)
Been There, done that!
Re:It's still fair (Score:3, Funny)
Hye, I resemble that remark. How about we call it (-1 no coffee yet)?
Re:You're wrong. (Score:5, Funny)
We were discussing journalistic integrity in my junior year Journalism class in High School. One of the stories we discussed was about potentially devastating NEOs and the hunt for them. They were calculating timelines for possible impacts, but the journalist - in his infinite lack of even the simplest scientific tenets - decided to exclude the actual numbers and say "sometime in the future".
Upon hearing this, a girl at one edge of our discussion circle perked up, her eyes got really wide, and she exclaimed "When is this supposed to happen!?"
Without missing a beat, the class clown said in the most serious, matter-of-fact voice I've ever heard....
"About 10 minutes"
She never was the same after that....
Re:You're wrong. (Score:2, Funny)
In fact, I blame valve for world hunger too.
And I blame all those people who write EULA's in plain - simple - English.
Re:You're wrong. (Score:5, Funny)
Re:You're wrong. (Score:3, Funny)
Look, even most of
Cheers,
Ryan
feh (Score:1, Funny)
example (from the revised code of washington):
RCW 9.03.010
Abandoning, discarding refrigeration equipment.
Any person who discards or abandons or leaves in any place accessible to children any refrigerator, icebox, or deep freeze locker having a capacity of one and one-half cubic feet or more, which is no longer in use, and which has not had the door removed or a portion of the latch mechanism removed to prevent latching or locking of the door, is guilty of a misdemeanor.
translation:
don't leave your fridge outside
Re:No lemon law in Minnesota (Score:3, Funny)
That means if you buy Bubble Bobble, open it, and realize it sucks, you can't exchange it for Phantasy Star Online.
That's a pretty bad example there, nobody can say Bubble Bobble sucks, not honestly.