Lars Westergren says: The problem with these sort of schemes is that just as games are bugged, so are sometimes the code that detects if a copy is pirated or not. This leads to legitimate paying customers getting locked out of their game, or even having their accounts suspended.

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That would Imply that I either play Garry's Mod or that my Steam account got banned which is a no on both. I rather find the people “hilarious” that rally against DRM (see one article above), but find someone losing all their games (for whatever reason be it pirating, credit card declined or using a crack). Oct 24, 2009 Rick Astley - Never Gonna Give You Up (Official Music Video) - Listen On Spotify: Download Rick's Number 1 album '50.

But when it works, yeah, it’s hilarious how outraged the pirates get. Speaking of DRM, I’ve heard Dragon Age: Origins PC DRM servers have been down for a couple of days, so paying customers can’t play the game. Pirated versions work fine though! Worth a chuckle, if you are in a morbid mood. Tei says: Yep. The clever thing here is that theres are a double check.

Using the provided SteamID, can confirm if the poster have the game or not. So this work as “self denounce”. Elements Of Philosophy Gendler Pdf. People posting these messages are flagging thenselves as pirates, so is easier to check than after the fact.

Is this combination of “I have this game”, “My id is X” and “player with id X don’t have buy the game”. So while this type of systems are almost always flawed, don’t seems the case here. —– update: Uh. After reading a GMod thread about the topic. Seems there are a few false positives. So the tecnical part “failed” flagging people. But the human part (Garry) correctly flagged only the evil people.

So the combination human+machine worked here, even after the machine part failing. Update: I sacrificed brevity in the name of correctness.

Milky1985 says: If the ID’s for the pirarted ones are randomly generated (peopel posting on the forums will start doing that “for lolz”), if it gets banned it could ban a legit player who does not yet have the game, ironically stopping them from getting it. Or worst case scenario, could get a full steam ban because of it and lose all of there games. I assume there will be some proper investigations going on if they do throw bans around. Nothing to stop my steamID being randomly generated, VERY small chance (one in however meany steam users there are) but still there! Now its been reveled [EDIT] Also now if someone does have a false postive, as happened (and happened with steam, remember the whole COD4 VAC fisaco when legit people got banned but everyone replied with “you cheater”?) people have to wade throgh 100’s of “you sodding pirate” posts to try to get info on it.

While tis a fun idea, it does have side effects As an extra note, enever played garry’s mod, don’t have it, don’t know anyone who had it. Admit its a fun way to catch pirates but again, they need to consider that the dectection is NOT infalible (imo same goes for valve and there “no response” for VAC, again never cheated but working with computers i know that nothing is 100%). Wulf says: I rarely ever say this, but loooooool This is so open for abuse it’s not even funny, and some folks I’ve talked to who’re very in tune with this sort of thing pretty much agree. @JustOneWay Forum IDs can in no way be linked to Steam IDs. You can actually register for a forum account without even having a Steam account. So it would be amazingly easy to get the Steam ID of someone who doesn’t have Garry’s Mod yet, create a forum account, and then falsely indicate them. This is going to get funny, fast.

I’m glad I do have a copy of Garry’s Mod, because if they’re still taking error reports now that this information is public, then a lot of people are about to get screwed. Not only that, but they’re only going to catch the dumb pirates, anyway.