Tangential, but it's interesting to me that there are "Valve watchers", people who are big on social media for doing Valve analysis and kremlinology. Humans are so cool.
If it will be really seeded forever that would be a great way of archiving for posterity!
btw interestingly from the leak homepage:
"To the operators of browsers/indexers: please look into caching or mirroring the blobs, as a large volume of requests at this point are coming from these, which seem to be impacting downloads for everyone. It's a 15 GB directory that would save the time of many people. Many people should have them all downloaded by now.
We are facing pretty severe link oversaturation. If you managed to download something please try seeding them on the torrent and/or sharing the original files on third party services to spare us some load. The more torrent seeds the faster and more viable it shall be."
Good question. Probably in a jurisdiction Valve can't touch, or they're just indexing stuff without hosting the actual files. Either way, it's risky. Valve's lawyers are definitely already on it
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
It's still unrelated AFAIK. From what I remember, the owner refused to sell the domain, and then asked Valve for a huge fee that they refused to pay. So now the domain is just unused.
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.
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).
Tangential, but it's interesting to me that there are "Valve watchers", people who are big on social media for doing Valve analysis and kremlinology. Humans are so cool.
Yeah the long forgotten Steam release of League of Legends is also in the files (it was only available for like 5 months)
Might not be the most interesting game in the leak but old versions of live service games are almost impossible to come by
https://steamdb.info/app/20590/
Downloaded it to extract all the old assets but it still needs an encrypted depot key
>error!! -- extract: missing depot key!, pass --key if you know it though
Some people reported that "--key 0000000000000000" or "--key 0" works on some depots... well not here
Dupe: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49497110
Discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49498002
If it will be really seeded forever that would be a great way of archiving for posterity!
btw interestingly from the leak homepage:
"To the operators of browsers/indexers: please look into caching or mirroring the blobs, as a large volume of requests at this point are coming from these, which seem to be impacting downloads for everyone. It's a 15 GB directory that would save the time of many people. Many people should have them all downloaded by now.
We are facing pretty severe link oversaturation. If you managed to download something please try seeding them on the torrent and/or sharing the original files on third party services to spare us some load. The more torrent seeds the faster and more viable it shall be."
Good question. Probably in a jurisdiction Valve can't touch, or they're just indexing stuff without hosting the actual files. Either way, it's risky. Valve's lawyers are definitely already on it
My harddisc is only 2TB!
Leak homepage: https://steam2.download/
How can they (host, domain owner) not get sued?
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
Likely bought with anonymous or stolen payment info.
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 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.
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