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ggrobot
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 Posted: Tue Feb 22, 2011 2:13 am Post subject: The Boy Who Stole Half-Life 2 - story [30447] |
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Half-Life 2 was one of the most anticipated PC games of all time.
However Valve\'s first person shooter sequel became the most infamous
example of a pirated PC game in
September 2003 when a German named Axel Gembe found a way to
hack into Valve\'s servers and download the still incomplete source code
for the game.
Read more...
Source: GGMania headlines
GGMania.com - Daily Gaming and Tech news |
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th4t1guy
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| Posted: Tue Feb 22, 2011 3:41 am Post subject: |
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| So the moral of the story here is not to worry about pirating Valve games since they completely fail at overseas prosecution. |
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Koogle
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| Posted: Tue Feb 22, 2011 4:10 am Post subject: |
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He had is home raided by dumb scum officers... the kind of cretinous legally protected child porn viewing hypocrite shit heads who think they work for moral crusade of greater good in raiding people's homes and turning family lives upside down. They are sick hypocrite scumbags. Though in his early naivety he is lucky he never got on a plane to the USA, the courts would wreck his life completely... and their sick rationalizing mentality call it justice.
The only moral to this story is never let your ego get the better of you though, he thought too highly of a company that might value his skills, when all they wanted was victim to prosecute and message to send out to anyone else thinking of messing with the big corp shit heads and their security flaws, while big government policy enforcing retards helped with their flawed, biased and hypocritical legal bullshit are only to happy to get involved in international new world order type policing activities for more intercontinental relations, power and media brainwashing stories regarding said 'cyber' activities/attacks. It's nothing compared to what these morons get away with under the guise of law protection and national security.
p.ps Valve never suffered any loss of sales because of that leak, its pretty obvious, but they like all corporations with greed and power on the mind would love to have you believe their fairy tale fears .. it actually boosted the hype of hl2, and allowed them to start their Steaming shite platform. Which couldn't give a fuck about your consumers rights or privacy, you agree to their biased legal terms remember  |
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NyaR
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| Posted: Tue Feb 22, 2011 4:47 am Post subject: |
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| What exatly is the point of prosecuting this guy? He doesn't have money, he is not useful in jail, its just a big waste of time. |
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th4t1guy
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| Posted: Tue Feb 22, 2011 7:31 am Post subject: |
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| And who is useful in jail? What's the point in prosecuting anyone? Oh yeah... Crime. |
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NyaR
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| Posted: Tue Feb 22, 2011 11:45 am Post subject: |
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| th4t1guy wrote: | | And who is useful in jail? What's the point in prosecuting anyone? Oh yeah... Crime. |
Well if you want to go philosophical who makes things a crime? People with opinions. Some think you should spend your life behind bars for weed, others think you should be on a sex offender registry for peeing on the side of the road, some think each song is worth $3000 and prosecute people in poverty for it.
Look past black and white... as an American citizen I sure as hell do not agree to paying for this guys meal for the next X years, I also don't agree to paying the FBI agents $999/Hour + administrative fees + flight tickets + food/expenses/hotel that were used throughout the sting.
Law is for your interpretation, at one point it was illegal to run away as a slave in the US and in northern states the jury would go against the law for the purpose of not returning a runaway slave to "its" master.
/AM rant. |
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JamieKirby
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| Posted: Tue Feb 22, 2011 3:28 pm Post subject: |
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There is no way the law is black and white, if it was, alot of people would be in prison now, alot of people get away with alot more then software piracy or hacking just because they have a metal badge.
Alot of law officers, no matter the kind tend to have a 'the ends justify the means' type of attitude.
So, i honestly have no faith in the law right now, its too screwed up, if you have enough money, you can pretty much get away with anything. |
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tride
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| Posted: Tue Feb 22, 2011 7:48 pm Post subject: |
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| JamieKirby wrote: | | ...if you have enough money, you can pretty much get away with anything. |
That rule has been around since the human came to existance!
So many examples that you cant imagine. The law's are for the masses. Those who have the money and connections get away with anything - even genocides! |
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JamieKirby
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| Posted: Tue Feb 22, 2011 8:58 pm Post subject: |
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| tride wrote: | | JamieKirby wrote: | | ...if you have enough money, you can pretty much get away with anything. |
That rule has been around since the human came to existance!
So many examples that you cant imagine. The law's are for the masses. Those who have the money and connections get away with anything - even genocides! |
I am quite aware of that, i was just saying that is why i don't respect the law at all, i know there are some law officers that are indeed not corrupt, but not many. |
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