is nosteam illegal

elitejavi · **is nosteam illegal -** 01-09-2004

well, a friend of mine doesn't like to buy half life(here in argentina the mayority of the games are copies, and the cd keys are all used) so he asked me to tell him if it's illegal or not, thank

seeya

sPlOrYgOn · **Re: is nosteam illegal -** 01-09-2004

it might now be illegal in Argentina but it's illegal in the U.S.

elitejavi · **Re: is nosteam illegal -** 01-09-2004

thanks!

seeya

Pierre-Marie Baty · **Re: is nosteam illegal -** 01-09-2004

Frankly I don't see any reason why it would be illegal everywhere BUT in Argentina (or in the north pole, in papuasia, in zimbabwe or in barbaria). Of course it is. That nosteam thing can be downloaded for free and allows people to play games they haven't paid for. Explain me how that could have some sort of legitimacy ???

sPlOrYgOn · **Re: is nosteam illegal -** 01-09-2004

I heard some countries don't care a thing about computers or intellectual property and let people do whatever they want in the virtual world..

elitejavi · **Re: is nosteam illegal -** 01-09-2004

the problem is that here, you paid for the game, but 100 other people paied for the same game, so you have the game, but if you aren't the first regitring, you lose8o

seeya

sfx1999 · **Re: is nosteam illegal -** 01-09-2004

What's nosteam?

elitejavi · **Re: is nosteam illegal -** 01-09-2004

nosteam is to download CS 1.6 or/and CS:CZ whithout a steam account, so you don't need a valid cd key, and you don't have to buy an original half life

seeya

sPlOrYgOn · **Re: is nosteam illegal -** 01-09-2004

well theres actually two different kinds of no steam..

one is where they just extracted all the files from the steam cache files and you can run it anywhere.. I think this version is legal.. unless you didn't pay for it.. even then you could've bought it off the black market.. just buy the game from Sierra or Vivendi (I am currently confused about Sierra and Vivendi. Sierra published Half-life 1 and Vivendi is going to publish Half-Life 2?) and it should be legal. You do it this way if you bought the game and just don't want steam running while you play.. http://countermap.counter-strike.net/Nemesis

the other version is where they edited some files and made cs1.6 run on the 1.1.1.0 version of half-life engine and I believe this is illegal. this breaks the EULA.

elitejavi · **Re: is nosteam illegal -** 01-09-2004

a friend of mine have a version of CS nosteam that plays a "retail" version of CS 1.6, whitout the half life engine, i thinks that is the first one you talked about sprolygon

seeya