Everyone stop being so stupid.
This was *NOT* intentionally released by anyone within Valve or anything like that.
The beta is rather extensive in what it includes.
Hopefully, by 2004 we'll have a game that looks more like the E3 build than this beta.
What are you talking about? The version floating around is newer than the E3 build.
It's not hard to find if you're looking for it. But don't look for it, because that would be wrong.
~Steve