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Valve Bans Another 30,000 Steam Users
bryhhh writes "Valve has announced that they have banned another 30,000 steam accounts which had been used to try to illegally gain access to Valve games without a valid purchase. Only last month 20,000 accounts were banned for the same reason, only this time Valve states that, 'The accounts that are disabled today will not be reactivated'."
The only issue I have with the whole process, is that if you use a warez CD key on HL2, that you can loose all of your legit games as well. That is cheap. If you want to say "no hl2 for you", that's fine, but something stinks about canning all your steam games.
Its like catching a shoplifter with a stolen game in thier jacket, making them pay for the game, taking the game back, and then going to their home and taking all games in the home from the same publisher. Seems a little overboard to me.
That's not a very good analogy.
If you attain the game in any unlawful way, they close your account. You need to log into your account to play any of their games, so not being able to play any of the ones you bought legally is a side effect you'll have to deal with. Don't like it? Buy the game legally. Jesus, are you people just trying to cover yourselves?