is nosteam illegal

[sPlOrYgOn]

no.. thats the second one... cs retail is half-life engine v1.1.1.0 if it's upgraded to v1.5 otherwise it would be an older half-life engine.

[elitejavi]

but he plays half life 1 and CS 1.5 too


seeya

[elitejavi]

but he plays half life 1 and CS 1.5 too
i think i don't understand very well this thing
(and i should search for other friends, i belive)
sorry for the double post, i't was a internet error.
oh! and i will can't read what you read
until tomorrow, because i have to sleep, wish me luck, tomorrow i have a geography test
seeya

[-=RAV=-AdrianShephard]

Theres also steam haters site (i wont post site here itz warez) frankly i think its illegal

[HangFire]

If Valve had made Steam better then there wouldn't be quite so many people getting "nosteam" copies. If I still played Half-Life then I know I'd get one of those.

NoSteam is illegal, illegal against Valve and Sierra.
For example:
you've made a game in USA and sell it for $20, but your friend ripped it and sell it for $5 in Russia. Is that legal?

And Vivendi bought Sierra Studios and I guess Vivendi will publish Half-Life under SIerra's name, 'couse it's well known

[Nova]

Ok, i know for a FACT that it is illegal, because we (the steampowered.com staff) have recently been discussing the boundaries of whats illegal. Extracting the gcs files is NOT illegal, whereas SHARING the content within or using it on more than one computer at the same time IS.

NOSTEAM is definately illegal. So is running CS:S and CS:CZ maps on CS server (modified) and so on ... its quite a list.

[sPlOrYgOn]

Thanks for the clarification Nova
I extract the files in the GCF files so steam won't run in the background and also so I don't have to update if I don't like the update

[KWo]

Because few people were banned because of asking and posting exactly about this illegal steam version (they don't read roules and they click only "I'm agree" when they join here), so maybe it's not bad idea to write something like this in php: if the new member will want write his first post, show him the window - "Don't post the warez here (especially illegal non-steam CS version) because You will be banned" (only if he will create a first his post here).

[litle offtopic]I was looking throw other forums and there are also some banned people, but not so often like here and because of the same thing.
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[Hot-Doc]

Sorry for joining your discussion here with an only related question about legal stuff and possibility:

I have bought two half-life cd keys and I want to play cs on two computers.

Is there a way two transfer the downloaded steam stuff to the second one (of course running under a different steam account) without having to download x hundred MB again?

And if it's possible, could anyone please explain to me in easy words?

And besides the question for possibility, would such a file transfer be considered illegal?