It just makes the game crash after a bit with a magic error message that contains the user's steamid.
Then, when they ask for help on the forums, their forum account is banned. On Thu, Apr 14, 2011 at 3:19 PM, Marcus Posey <witsalldonebe...@gmail.com>wrote: > So it doesn't remove or block the game? It just makes it "crash"? > > > On Thu, Apr 14, 2011 at 12:32 PM, Garry Newman <garrynew...@gmail.com>wrote: > >> Exactly right. >> >> A lot of sites are reporting that people get banned from Steam - this >> isn't true. (How's that going to work?) >> >> garry >> >> >> >> On Thu, Apr 14, 2011 at 5:16 PM, Saul Rennison <saul.renni...@gmail.com> >> wrote: >> > To be slightly more detailed than Rodrigo and Tobias were: >> > According to Garry's Blog, the DRM is a simple "call home", which I >> presume >> > sends the 64-bit SteamID to one of Garry's servers, which in turn checks >> to >> > see if they are valid license owners of Garry's Mod, if not, send back a >> > "PIRATE" signal, which then causes the engine error. >> > >> > Thanks, >> > - Saul >> > >> > >> > On 14 April 2011 16:08, Chris <sniper...@fragspersecond.net> wrote: >> >> >> >> >> >> >> http://www.gamepron.com/news/2011/04/12/garrys-mod-catches-pirates-the-fun-way/ >> >> >> >> Awesome story. Any insight into how it was done? >> >> _______________________________________________ >> >> To unsubscribe, edit your list preferences, or view the list archives, >> >> please visit: >> >> http://list.valvesoftware.com/mailman/listinfo/hlcoders >> >> >> > >> > >> > _______________________________________________ >> > To unsubscribe, edit your list preferences, or view the list archives, >> > please visit: >> > http://list.valvesoftware.com/mailman/listinfo/hlcoders >> > >> > >> > >> >> _______________________________________________ >> To unsubscribe, edit your list preferences, or view the list archives, >> please visit: >> http://list.valvesoftware.com/mailman/listinfo/hlcoders >> >> > > _______________________________________________ > To unsubscribe, edit your list preferences, or view the list archives, > please visit: > http://list.valvesoftware.com/mailman/listinfo/hlcoders > > >
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