----- Original Message ----- From: "WarCry" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <[email protected]> Sent: Thursday, March 31, 2005 12:35 AM Subject: Re: [hlds] Suggestion for VAC2.
> Obviously you didnt know that this lawsuit was overturned in appeal and > the woman only managed to get her medical bills covered by the mcdonalds > companies and thats it. > My closing comments on topic: Bottom line is that VALVe will only be banning cheaters from "secure servers." These players will continue to be able to cheat on non-secure servers to their heart's content. The original argument I replied to was the suggestion that cheaters be banned from all VALVe products, this will never happen, and for the exact reason you stated... Overturning via appeal, but still paying for medical bills, does not show that McDonalds won. Your suggestion of anything obvious is that you don't appreciate that McDonalds ultimaely lost the case; likewise, if you were to permanently ban any cheater from being able to use VALVe products, a class action lawsuit could easily be filed to force VALVe to refund the pruchase price of the software as people could prove they they didn't understand the TOS/ELUA in regard to software found to "update" their game play experience -- a good lawyer could prove that use of custom graphics, sounds, add-ons or maps could also be considered in the same category as any other download that would enhance an individuals game play experience via predition of movement, auto-aim, etc. Let's face it, a cheater is doing it for their enjoyment or they wouldn't be doing it. A lawyer could probably prove that their client needs to utilize the cheats in order to maintain an equal playing field between their client and good players due to <fill-in-your-disability-of-choice>, all because American's believe in absolute non-discrimination. Regards, Bud Ingram _______________________________________________ To unsubscribe, edit your list preferences, or view the list archives, please visit: http://list.valvesoftware.com/mailman/listinfo/hlds
