20,000 Steam Accounts Disabled [Nov 23, 2004, 4:01 pm ET] – Share – Viewing Comments
The
Steam Users Forums (thanks
Shacknews) announces
that Valve called shenanigans on approximately 20,000
Steam user accounts yesterday, and
has disabled access to them. Word is: "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." The post goes on to
describe the circumstances under which Steam accounts will be revoked, as well
as avenues to follow should you feel your account was banned erroneously. They
also go on to debunk what has become the popular myth that they released a bug
to the warez circuit to entrap pirates:
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.
"How do we keep from geting to that point? Where would you draw the line?"
I definitely agree with some of StaTik's comments. But I'm not sure if I was forced to submit my personal info or not. I didn't even think twice about it registering my HL2. But, usually I do.
The future implications are all around us. What scares me is a right-wing country that is so brainwashed by the corporate right-wing owned media, that all these statistics on what is bought could swing more people to the right extremism of our society because of marketing to the statistics and thus flood the market with subversive conservatism. Fear and propaghanda creates that staple of American society: fear, consume and hate.
Luckily the more extreme the American society gets the bigger the underground gets. Already in San Francisco people are setting up guerilla TV stations and it only costs $500 to get your message to a 7 mile radius on "network TV".
People should think a little and be more cautious... I'm not really sure if Valve is really apart of the evil... but all of the info might be going to Vivendi... which DEFINITELY is n't a good thing in my mind. I think what StaTik is implying IS on the horizon, it doesn't take a genius to figure that out. Corporations just love to advertise and corruptly and unethically stick up for their investors and sponsors.
I definitely agree with some of StaTik's comments. But I'm not sure if I was forced to submit my personal info or not. I didn't even think twice about it registering my HL2. But, usually I do.
The future implications are all around us. What scares me is a right-wing country that is so brainwashed by the corporate right-wing owned media, that all these statistics on what is bought could swing more people to the right extremism of our society because of marketing to the statistics and thus flood the market with subversive conservatism. Fear and propaghanda creates that staple of American society: fear, consume and hate.
Luckily the more extreme the American society gets the bigger the underground gets. Already in San Francisco people are setting up guerilla TV stations and it only costs $500 to get your message to a 7 mile radius on "network TV".
People should think a little and be more cautious... I'm not really sure if Valve is really apart of the evil... but all of the info might be going to Vivendi... which DEFINITELY is n't a good thing in my mind. I think what StaTik is implying IS on the horizon, it doesn't take a genius to figure that out. Corporations just love to advertise and corruptly and unethically stick up for their investors and sponsors.
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