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I could care less about Steam. I think the idea behind a software company being able to revoke your rights to software you bought isn't something an honest business would do. But go ahead side with Valve if you want. :gaysex2:

Er... I'm not too sure about that. A lot of people got familiar with Freestream.org through the cafe accounts. A lot more people now know of other ways to run Valve games without a steam client. And I have a feeling that most people won't care enough to buy another game, and probably will simply just avoid Valve products. I don't see this recent closing of accounts as being a good move on Valve's part.

You can, actually. I already did. But the CD Key no longer works. Though, I guess you can find other ways to play games on steam if you lost your other account.

Doubtful that guessing them would be a good way to explain what happened. However, you could explain that you didn't know the accounts were being obtained in an illegal fashion, and had no idea that they were, themselves, illegal. Since youy didn't take any illegal actions to obtain them, it would be hard to prove in court that taking account information posted on the web is illegal to use to log in. So I'm not really afraid of any legal action anymore. Though, if I did generate the accounts, I would be. Depends on how they acquired those accounts.

Well, whatever. Only bought one game a long time ago, so I don't care about it much. The only thing I'm worried about is whatever lawsuit they can bring up.

Probably because you never logged into your real account and your cafe account on the same IP.

Nah, you can't. Well, whatever, guess I can't sell the CDs either.

Is there anything you can do after your copy of the game gets banned? Or is the CD Key for it just invalid now?

I dunno. I do know that I may be selling my copy of Half-Life 2 on Ebay. I'd get some of my money back atleast.

Huh, well I can tell you this. I'm going to be avoiding Steam products now.

Eh.... even if they do have your address, they would have to subpoena your ISP for evidence of what you did. And if you happen to draw your IP from a pool of different IPs (like me), just call up your ISP and tell them to change you IP. Chances are, when they get to your IP, the logs on your activity will be lost. Though, to be extra careful, I would lay low for a while. Besides, I doubt the people who picked up the accounts are going to be in much legal trouble. The people who hosted the cafe accounts and generated them might be in trouble though. Steam may do an RIAA-esque thing and go after the actual provider and have scare tactics all over the place. I doubt that though. Doing something like that is time and money consuming. Edit: Yeah, they are disabling accounts. *sigh* Oh well. Not like Counter Strike: Source was much fun anyway.

Wow. Sendmefile hasn't taken down a detectable Trojan yet. That's not a good response time for them...

Any vac disablers out there are either already detected or are keyloggers.

Compi would suck my cock for a cafe account.

Take your keylogger else where, moron.