Half-Life 2: pirates find buried treasure

Word is, Valve packed a little surprise into its very own warez version of Half-Life 2 being distributed via the Bittorent network. A trap—designed to capture account information—was installed into the file, so that anyone foolish enough to download this pirated version would be banned from Steam. Here's what the Gabe Newell, the man himself, had to say:

"We're running a bit of an experiment. We're keeping track of the accounts that do this and will be shutting them off."