you all are brain dead (Score 1)

All of you people bitching about this must be brain dead. The reason things like this started in the first place (lisc agreements and other ways to copyright material) is because of people like you that like to steal software. Oh no, you're not stealing it, your buddy just backed up a copy of his software for you. If only one person buys the software and everyone else hacks it, the company is in for a HUGE. HL2 probably cost millions of dollars to make and wtf kind of company would release their software without putting some sort of lisc agreement on it to protect themselves from hackers out here. I for one will legally purchase this software and give credit where credit is due.

The ONLY people that are bitching about how much of a pain in the ass out there are the people stealing it. Why would anyone else care. Yes you buy software and you have to "activate" it. Oh wow, when you buy a car can you just drive home? NO!! you have to put gas, oil..etc other fluids in there to make it run. You have to continually pay for this gas/oil/maintainence to keep your car running smoothly. You say well what if the software companies go out of business and we can't activate software anymore?? Well what if 30 yrs down the road gasoline isn't the standard anymore. Saying that your car lasts that long, You would be the kind of person to be pissed off the 12k you spent on a new car 30 years ago is worthless.

oh yeah i forgot...quit your bitching and just pay for the software already, trust me it's worth it!!!

~Zach