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How can they (host, domain owner) not get sued?

Steam.com was for the longest time unrelated to Valve, which is why you'll find Steam under steampowered.com instead.

It's still unrelated AFAIK. From what I remember, the owner refused to sell the domain, and then eventually asked Valve for a huge fee that they refused to pay. So now the domain is just unused.

That's what happens when you name your project after someone else's domain. A usual part of starting a project now is picking an unused domain name.

Using a dictionary word for your project will never be easy, but what often happens now is to just not get the .com domain (Likely taken), or prefix with "get" and then later hope that you can time it right so that you can afford the clean .com domain...but not be famous enough that the buyer would want to get some crazy amount for it.

I really wish using random dictionary words wouldn't be so popular.

Or if you’re worth a trillion dollars you just literally buy the domain chat.com for over $15 million

Parking domains and not using them is poor taste. Finders keepers is okay compared to pay to win but if someone has a better use for the domain, maybe release it for a reasonable price?

What incentivises the domain holder to do that? Under the UDRP, parking is only not allowed if it's obviously done to screw with someone's trademark, has no other purpose, and their trademark came first.

I’m thinking idealistically, not practically

I really wish reselling would not be allowed at all by ICANN and could result in the domain being reclaimed from either the seller or buyer if discovered.

I have a theory that's what happened to my company's rebrand, they now use a 4 lettered .com domain name. Not even a word, just an abbreviation.

Valve owns s.team now, as well. That’ll bring you to the store page

It also acts as a url shortener for their hardware support pages.

s.team/deck, and s.team/machine take you to the appropriate support pages.

I will never remember that, but I could instantly remember steam.com

Steam used to be steamgames.com, too.

They probably will, that's why it's good to grab the torrent while we can.

The DHT network picked it up already so the magnet link is enough. At this point it will be available forever (as long as there are seeders)

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Long live the resistance.

My own gaming days are over, but I am very annoyed that the big corporations killed libgen effectively (it is not entirely gone, but the old content is nowhere near as it used to be, and Anna's archive is also nowhere near as good either, unfortunately).

> but the old content is nowhere near as it used to be, and Anna's archive is also nowhere near as good either

Not sure what you mean, Anna's Archive includes all of Libgen's content

I kind of have mixed feelings about this, because from one point of view we're fighting the corporations, but from another, Valve is a major force in pushing Linux gaming so that more gaming can be done outside of big corpo operating systems.

It seems to me that fighting with Valve is like fighting against what we would want to have.

Mind you Valve has done equal amount of bad as well by inventing the whole battle pass system and thus bringing even more FOMO to games, and making unregulated gambling available to millions which is still going strong and surprisingly no one cares about it. There are some lawsuits here and there but they focus on the lootbox gacha element and not the whole gambling market running on the Steam API

Valve could shut it down any single day just by disabling trading but hey, that doesn't let you buy a 110m long superyacht (; https://www.yachtcharterfleet.com/luxury-charter-yacht-53601...

> fighting against what we would want to have

One giant megacorp with a benevolent dictator? Well, maybe you want that - but I do not. And we have a couple of examples of how it goes.

I guess a comparison would be: a megacorp invests in children in africa (schooling, money) so later they can hire them and make more money. Should we support this or resist?

If a false comparison in the first place but you/we already have a such megacorp! Sure, sure, benevolent dictator is judicially removed from the leadership for 30 years and no longer guides the megacorp in any meaningful way... but he does invest in kids in Africa.

You can have a whole one try to guess who is this.

And if you guess it right (I doubt you can answer wrong, lol) you would know a whole bunch of different reasons - including personal qualities of that "benevolent dictator" too.

NB honestly, if anything it's "his" OS what gave a lot of opportunities to the kids in the developing countries everywhere, not just Africa alone - just by providing the means to run the apps and games on almost anything. OLPC on the other hand provided an example how a specialized device made with the best intentions was a piece of shit.

A benevolent dictator who is already old and whose lifestyle-induced organ damage won't be fully undone by recent drug-assisted body changes. It's anyone's guess how things will go once Gabe passes the buck.

Valve isn't a saint. They are using Linux because it currently fits their goal and not because they are your ally.

The readme from it:

welcome to terarelease - a as-complete-as-possible steam2 content server dump

extractor howto: for the majority of depots you need to download blobs & dats for wanted version *as well as all past versions* as the files are stored as deltas inside the dat files, HOWEVER IF you encounter a depot that has duplicate blobs & dats, that means at some point in time valve did a full reset in which case you need to provide the CRC of the wanted blob (3rd file name component) to the extractor using --blobcrc, source code for the extractor is also left in this folder if you want to have a peek at it

examples: extract /mnt/big/blobs /mnt/big/dats 852 0 | for depots w/o reset extract /mnt/big/blobs /mnt/big/dats 841 0 --blobcrc 83ced978 | for depots that did reset

win64 build is provided, for linux you have to build it yourself as any kind of binary compatibility is inexistent except for wine (you are using linux, you should know how to build it yourself right? ...right?)

sharing: you are very much encouraged to share and mirror/seed this release as possible SHARING IS CARING

warm n good wishes to all hoarders who had stuff from this collection <3

donos (bandwidth [ shit aint cheap :( ]/seedboxes/estrogen :D): bc1qttqxa2vrfnrs3u3tmuj7dne5j7lptxmc2cy9ah

Surely binary compatibility exists for something puny that just shuffles files?

Yeah, a fully statically linked binary that runs on every kernel would work very well for the simple terminal program use case. It's only things like GUI and GPU acceleration where you need to care at all about existing libraries on the system and even there options for binary compatibility exist.

Even for gui you can use gtk2, it's stable. Will it work?

in the gaming community there's infinite amounts of cheat devs, mods, leaks like this, etc.

it's not like regular stuff where companies just sue you left and right, this stuff is hard to pursue and usually not worth it

it can get taken down but that's about it

Mods and tools that incorporate parts of games are very different from full leaks which are not as tolerated as you claim. Valve themself even tried to get the guy responsible for the previous big HL2 leak to come to the US so they could prosecute him much more harshly there. Just because they aren't acting rashly doesn't mean that they won't pursue legal options for this.

Likely bought with anonymous or stolen payment info.

They could also choose to just get sued - they will lose, but the site will be up until that happens (possibly years) if they don't have trigger-happy hosting provider

An injuction for an obvious infringement like this would not take years. This isn't the first leak for Valve so they probably are just taking their time to plan how to handle this rather than make rash decisions. It's not like this leak will impact their business in any significant way.

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