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Valve Cans 20,000 Steam Accounts
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Posted by: Ion Silverbolt
Shacknews has some news about Valve laying the smack down on warez buccaneers.
Yesterday, Valve disabled approximately 20,000 Steam accounts which had been used to try to access Half-Life 2 without purchasing it. The method used was extremely easy for Valve to trace and confirm, and so there is no question that the accounts disabled were used to try and illegally obtain Half-Life 2. Accounts also may be closed due to fraudulent activity in an attempt to obtain additional products for your Steam Account. This includes Credit Card fraud, theft of accounts you do not own and using cracked versions of Valve games. If you violate the Steam Subscriber agreement your account can be permanently disabled and you will lose any products registered to those accounts.
Also, a few myths floating around out there that need to be cleared up.
First, Valve did not put out any kind of fake key or fake warez or hack instructions to trap people. The hack came from the "community" as do they all. Second, 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.
Posted by: Ocean
yeesh, you can spend $1000 on the comp to play it, and not $50 to play an awesome game?
there needs to be ethics instilled in the warez community. ONLY STEAL THE SHITTY GAMES YOU JUST WANNA TRY. NOT THE BLOCKBUSTERS THAT NEED MONEY ANYWAYZ SO THEY CAN MAKE BETTER GAMES!.
goobers.
Posted by: Ion Silverbolt
Yeah it's annoying as hell to have to deal with anti-piracy shit like activation and such, but if you look at it from their perspective, 20,000 users at 50$ a pop is 1,000,000$. That figure would probably be even higher if there wasn''t any anti-piracy measures with the game.
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