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Hawke · **Valve trys to stop Hackers -** 11-18-2004, 05:20 AM

Half-life 2 is here; yes it's true the game can be bought at your local software dealer. The people from HL2Files.com saw a link to a warez version of Half-life 2 on some bit torrent sire and thought it be smart to warn the people at Valve about this.

So they did and some time after they reported the link they got a message back saying that Valve distributed the warez version themselves, and that anyone downloading the game and trying to play it via steam will have there IP number recorded and blocked from steam.

Isn't this a great way to stop the distribution of illegal software, imagine what would happen if valve gave this list to other software companies so that they could block these ip addresses too, then I think we've gotten a little bit closer to a world where people don't steal, not even software.

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Hawke is Offline Senior Member Posts: 3,546 Join Date: Nov 2003 Location: Ohio	Valve trys to stop Hackers - 11-18-2004, 05:20 AM Half-life 2 is here; yes it's true the game can be bought at your local software dealer. The people from HL2Files.com saw a link to a warez version of Half-life 2 on some bit torrent sire and thought it be smart to warn the people at Valve about this. So they did and some time after they reported the link they got a message back saying that Valve distributed the warez version themselves, and that anyone downloading the game and trying to play it via steam will have there IP number recorded and blocked from steam. Isn't this a great way to stop the distribution of illegal software, imagine what would happen if valve gave this list to other software companies so that they could block these ip addresses too, then I think we've gotten a little bit closer to a world where people don't steal, not even software.