guilty consciences perhaps :P I'm not hearing anything like this on my servers though.
I've seen groups of players get this at intervals, just mostly coincidence I think although I did take the time to extract and plot these from my server logs once and there was at least one time (a year ago or so) when I saw a lot of players getting it regardless of their ticket age - Valve fixed something then. I would suspect that IF there was suddenly a group of players that were getting kicked with a real piracy notice that it would indicate that VAC was doing its job. ----- Original Message ----- From: "Saint K." To: "'Half-Life dedicated Win32 server mailing list'" <[email protected]> Sent: Friday, March 21, 2008 12:26 PM Subject: Re: [hlds] Kicked for piracy? >I have seen the message before indeed, but I never heard multiple users > complaining about some sort of piracy message. > > Saint K. > > -----Oorspronkelijk bericht----- > Van: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Namens Sandy > Verzonden: Friday, March 21, 2008 8:17 PM > Aan: Half-Life dedicated Win32 server mailing list > Onderwerp: Re: [hlds] Kicked for piracy? > > That error from the logs doesn't actually mean anything with piracy > according the the FAQ. > https://support.steampowered.com/kb_article.php?p_faqid=374 > Plus, it's been around for a long time. > If this does turn out to be an anti-piracy measure from Valve as in > attacking those using non-steam etc, then it's about time! > > ----- Original Message ----- > From: "Saint K." > To: "'Half-Life dedicated Win32 server mailing list'" > <[email protected]> > Sent: Friday, March 21, 2008 2:51 PM > Subject: Re: [hlds] Kicked for piracy? > > >> This is from the logs, but the clients reported that locally it gave a >> piracy error message. Unfortunately there is no one around anymore to >> request the exact message from. >> >> >> L 03/21/2008 - 18:05:13: "fuguSpecial<276><STEAM_0:1:5267942><Red>" >> disconnected (reason "No Steam logon >> ") >> L 03/21/2008 - 18:05:13: "jiles<270><STEAM_0:0:16064753><Red>" >> disconnected >> (reason "No Steam logon >> ") >> L 03/21/2008 - 18:05:13: "paznja<269><STEAM_0:0:16687558><Red>" >> disconnected >> (reason "No Steam logon >> ") >> L 03/21/2008 - 18:05:13: "GonnaKillU<266><STEAM_0:1:1416804><Red>" >> disconnected (reason "No Steam logon >> ") >> L 03/21/2008 - 18:05:13: "BanG<264><STEAM_0:0:128523><Blue>" disconnected >> (reason "No Steam logon >> ") >> L 03/21/2008 - 18:05:13: "waffle of roffle<275><STEAM_0:1:5251261><Blue>" >> disconnected (reason "No Steam logon >> ") >> L 03/21/2008 - 18:05:13: "bLAATjEEH<250><STEAM_0:1:14105977><Blue>" >> disconnected (reason "No Steam logon >> ") >> L 03/21/2008 - 18:05:13: "Little Kid<244><STEAM_0:0:16427574><Blue>" >> disconnected (reason "No Steam logon >> ") >> L 03/21/2008 - 18:05:13: "Foolish Newbie<230><STEAM_0:0:4805599><Blue>" >> disconnected (reason "No Steam logon >> ") >> L 03/21/2008 - 18:05:13: "zalan02<222><STEAM_0:1:18064055><Blue>" >> disconnected (reason "No Steam logon >> ") >> L 03/21/2008 - 18:05:13: "zenjester<193><STEAM_0:0:10445065><Blue>" >> disconnected (reason "No Steam logon >> ") >> L 03/21/2008 - 18:05:13: "Neron<46><STEAM_0:0:133794><Blue>" disconnected >> (reason "No Steam logon >> -----Oorspronkelijk bericht----- >> Van: [EMAIL PROTECTED] >> [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Namens Kevin Ottalini >> Verzonden: Friday, March 21, 2008 7:43 PM >> Aan: Half-Life dedicated Win32 server mailing list >> Onderwerp: Re: [hlds] Kicked for piracy? >> >> What was the message exactly? >> >> >> ----- Original Message ----- >> From: "Saint K." >> To: "'Half-Life dedicated Win32 server mailing list'" >> <[email protected]> >> Sent: Friday, March 21, 2008 11:28 AM >> Subject: [hlds] Kicked for piracy? >> >> >>> Erm... Half of the server got kicked today with a piracy message? What >>> the >>> heck? >>> >>> Saint K. >> _______________________________________________ To unsubscribe, edit your list preferences, or view the list archives, please visit: http://list.valvesoftware.com/mailman/listinfo/hlds
