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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.
"It's claimed by a poster on filefront.com that..."
uh huh. well, it's claimed by a poster on slashdot.org that Natalie Portman pours hot grits down my pants.
Quidquid latine dictum sit, altum sonatur.
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... ;)
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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.
I used to bulls-eye womp-rats in my pants
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for a sleepy little village in Mexico, Warez sure gets a lot of coverage on the web.
You actually look at the manual? Are you sure you belong here?
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!
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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.
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.
Grannie might suddenly be in favor of these back doors, then. Ever since gramps kicked the bucket, she's been lonely.
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.
12-14 yr olds don't generally have $50-60 to blow
No they don't, but their parents do.
"We returned the General to El Salvador, or maybe Guatemala, it's difficult to tell from 10,000 feet"
What great friends you have! "We're very sad to hear that you don't steal shit like us!"
Namaste
The foremost question on my mind is, "Who the fuck would want to copy a ford?!"
The image is a dream, the beauty is real. Can you see the difference?
Wait a second: This isn't a borg collective? Since when? Why did nobody told me? I liked our borg overlords.
Waffles rock.
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.