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vittu
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Old 02-18-2009 , 02:32   Re: How are non-steam servers illegal?
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Originally Posted by slmclarengt View Post
I'd be interested to know if China supports STEAM (mostly because of their known notion of censorship) and how many Chinese use Steam over non-steam.
http://forums.alliedmods.net/showthr...370#post455370
Even though this is old, it seems games are cheaper there (possibly for the same reason they get extra tracks on their music CDs, incentive to buy non-pirated).

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Originally Posted by slmclarengt View Post
EDIT: The main reason it would not be a good idea to support non-steam on these forums is we could be "contributory or vicariously liable" for copyright infringement
You would think that would be reason enough not to have to support it let alone all the other things bail points out in his post here, yet there are still those that don't understand or complain or whine about it.

People writing these plugins/etc. spend their time doing so for free.... as Bail said "I am not going to start writing code that will work against every version of CS ever made." and they shouldn't have to.
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