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Valve Takes the Offensive on Warez Users?

Posted by Zonk on from the burn-warez-monkeys-burn dept.

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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  1. Why is this news? by wschalle · · Score: 0, Redundant

    Surely there could be some better story about halflife 2 than some DRM spun rumor from filefront...

  2. Re:Just asking for trouble by TedTschopp · · Score: 0, Redundant

    No, you are being treated like a customer.

    I have an anual pass to Disnyland. Every time I goto the park they check the pass to see if I'm who I say I am (I look like the picture on the pass) and they log me into their database.

    This is normal, and complete expected.

    Every time I goto the theatre or a concert, they do the same thing.

    Heck, every time I goto a forign country they ask for Identification.

    What makes you expect a software company is any different?

    Ted Tschopp

    --
    Fantasy remains a human right; we make in our measure and in our derivative mode... -- JRR Tolkien
  3. Sometimes Slashdot is Stupid by jdog1016 · · Score: 0, Redundant

    > This is the news from some guy with a filefront > account, so take it with a grain of salt. Dear Slashdot, WHY ARE YOU PUTTING THIS ON THE FRONT PAGE OF SLASHDOT? This is happening more and more often lately. Please wake up - bloggers are not journalists. I already consider you to be a fairly unreputable source of news because you seem to think otherwise, and because you check stories without checking it out first (case in point: the Fallujah Google Images thing). Eventually if this shit continues, the rest of your reader base may think the same.