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Don't know if they got him, but the last thing I heard was they traced the first distributed source leak of HL2 to a guy in finland.

The first ones to download it was russion, but they downloaded it from the finnish guy.

And only downloading it is not a crime, distributing it on the other hand is.

Quote:And only downloading it is not a crime, distributing it on the other hand is.

Nope downloading is a crime. Distrubuting is just more serious.

Quote:My installation has the habbit of creating: "fff99527_{4D19FDE1-5B2B-11D8-BF6A-0010A7095A55}.tmp" (or alike) files in my windows folder, they are all 0bytes and about 2 per boot is created, fun huh?. :lol:

I also have a lot of those, what are they?

Look at the extension: .tmp they are temporary files and may be safely deleted.

Yeah, but I more wondered why and what they were doing there...
Nice recipe btw...

so the HL2 source code came with the graphics. how long did it take them to realize that it got stolen

The day after I think, if I remember it correctly.

IE.
Day1: It got stolen, distributed
Day2: They found the source on the I-Net...

But before Day1 the vilain had installed a keylogger and keept track of them for over a month (they found an unknown IP in their email logs accessing their accounts)

Imagine working on a huge project, and one day realize the source is on the i-net, kinnda sucks.

Quote:A Win98 install is only about 200MB when installed fresh and the user has experience.

Versus Win98 install being 200GB when installed fresh and the user being new to computers LOL!!! damn rat bastards Microshaft

To succeed as a large business, you need shify practises. Plain and simple. That includes legal cheating.
Windows XP on main (preinstalled, bleah :barf: ) comes to...a few gigs.

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adosorken Wrote:A Win98 install is only about 200MB when installed fresh and the user has experience.

Versus Win98 install being 200GB when installed fresh and the user being new to computers LOL!!! damn rat bastards Microshaft

200GB :rotfl: