Keep in mind, obvious trap is obvious. Too much trolling and you give away they've been caught. It would seem Garry did just enough to trick the user into thinking it was a legitimate error so that they'd report it.
On Thu, Apr 14, 2011 at 5:07 PM, Spencer 'Voogru' MacDonald < voo...@voogru.com> wrote: > I didn't think it was a dick move. > > I just think he should have gone a little further to troll the user. > > Maybe crash garrys mod and force-open this URL: > http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=T3n0vBcW5fc > > > > On 4/14/2011 8:00 PM, Jonathan Murphy wrote: > > I also thought that this was a bit of a dick move, would've been a much > funnier "troll" if it did something humorous other than crash the game and > then force the user to inadvertently publish identifying information. > > Bad form Garry. > > On Fri, Apr 15, 2011 at 8:25 AM, Spencer 'Voogru' MacDonald < > voo...@voogru.com> wrote: > >> Perhaps you should have considered having a 200+ step process to 'fix' the >> problem, which involves reinstalling windows among other things to waste >> even more of their time. >> >> >> On 4/14/2011 1:32 PM, Garry Newman 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 >> >> > > _______________________________________________ > 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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