November 19, 2004

Valve Tricking Game Pirates

Valve has admitted in an email they released a test "warez" version of Half-life 2 on the internet to catch game pirates. Anyone that tries to activate the game over Steam with a downloaded copy will be deleted and immediately banned. Tricky, tricky.

We're running a bit of an experiment. We're keeping track of the accounts that do this and will be shutting them off.

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