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Re: Bootleg copy

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From: mark
Date: Sun, 24 Dec 2006 20:33
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Michael Weber wrote:
> Am Mon, 04 Dec 2006 12:53:13 +0000 schrieb mark:
> 
>> A friend of mine has a server running ut2004. He really does not know
>> what he is doing and as I don't run such a server neither do I. Anyway
>> the question is, is there any way to stop players who have bootleg
>> copies playing on the server. More to the point he knows that there are
>> 2 players with the same gid on his server regularly. Now he knows he
>> could just ban them both but the issue is wider than that, he wants to
>> ban anyone with a copy which is not a legal one, in so far as he can. A
>> good way is to ban ANY duplicate GID.
>>
>> Any ideas?
>>
>> Many thanks
>>
>> Mark
> 
> hi,
> im not steady, what ure talking about, of corse, u can make a network game,
> but u ll never get the online response, as with an actual key.
> 
> damn, there are still guys out there, trying to pick my ut2k3 key.
> 
> LOL.
> 
> Stricken 1000...
Well this is definitely happening. He has rechecked. There are several 
players on our server with the same guid. It happens quite a lot too. I 
thought this was not supposed to happen. And yes we are using a genuine 
copy for the server. It would be good to keep these thieving bastard out.

Mark
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Subject: Re: Bootleg copy
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