large hl1 mod package discovered Created 13 years ago2010-12-16 19:04:23 UTC by 2muchvideogames

Hey all, so I was snooping around and I found this large mod package that includes many mods, some of which that are available nowhere else. Problem is, it is a torrent, and I don't have the setup to access such a resource.

Who here is willing to download for a year or so to get this torrent and then provide me with a small portion of the contents available herein? There are many more mods in it that you can try if you wish.

0 / 0 | seeders / leachers

:/

I think you're wasting time when you try to download that. Looks like most of those mods are still downloadable somewhere on the Internet.

I don't thing its worth downloading.

0 / 0 | seeders / leachers

I dunno how torrents work but that I think means no one is providing access

Looks like most of those mods are still downloadable somewhere on the Internet.

You are right of course but the point was to be able to obtain the mods in the package that are available nowhere else

Well, with no seeders or leachers, you can forget about ever getting it.
And what's more, those hard to find mods are probably crap and not worth playing at all.

aww, don't judge mods harshly just because they went offline! Santa's revenge 2 is still offline and you can't really say that is "crap and not worth playing at all"

I like at least give mods a chance before passing judgments on them, you know

Yeah, Atom is correct. The torrent IS 5 months old. I don't know too many people who leave anything up after that length of time. I tried to force start the download and got nothing. 0/0 means no people are hosting this file. Sorry.

And Bit Torrents really aren't that different than any other archived download. You just need a bit torrent down loader. You can pick whatever you want but I use Azureus and you can find that at azureus.com for free.

Have fun finding sites that actually stay up. Most of the good ones are out of the country. Obviously, where the copyright laws aren't so strict.

I like bit torrents because you can actually pick and choose what files in the archive come thru first or with priority. That way if you just want one file in a torrent that has 100 files in it you can put a priority on that one file and when it comes in it is available for immediate use. Extremely useful if you want that one song on an album and don't really want the whole thing. Bit torrents are awesome for whole albums or discographies.

And it's pretty safe. I don't think I have gotten anything from any of my downloads. Not to say that you can't so don't quote me on that when you get burned. Always scan before opening....this goes for any download really.

You did not just admit to illegally acquiring music on a public forum, did you?

He didn't. There's free music you know. Even if he did, what would it matter? Everyone's a pirate, except maybe Ant.

I didn't say anything exactly, ok?

I was explaining bit torrents...

geez

You did not just admit to illegally acquiring music on a public forum, did you?

Who cares?

except maybe Ant.

Haha.

And it's pretty safe. I don't think I have gotten anything from any of my downloads. Not to say that you can't so don't quote me on that when you get burned. Always scan before opening....this goes for any download really.

I don't think viruses are your biggest concern when torrenting.

Tut tut tut. You pirating bastards.

well thanks for trying and explaining, though looks like offline mods are offline

anyway there are much easier ways to get music I want than using torrent softwarez, I know

what easier wayz are there?

Going to the store and stealing it? lol

Whoa nice game > Pirate it > test it > find out its awesome, but full of bugs and lacks stuff > buy original

Thats how i do.

There's free music you know.

Yeah maybe there's select pieces of music, never entire albums.

I don't think viruses are your biggest concern when torrenting.

I would think keyloggers and other subtle spyware are the things to be wary of.

For me, anything that is unwanted on my computer is a virus.

Whether that is a keylogger, spyware, or the ever annoying browser redirect.

Bit Torrents are much safer than the alternative, which are/is services like Limewire and such which are loaded with viruses and bad things. I have had a few hits from places like that and even lost an entire 200 GB drive, master boot record and all.

What IS limewire, Is it not a bittorrent client?

I'm too lazy to google.

I thought limewire is some sort of backdoor itunes software for iPods (which I don't like, iPods are too restrictive)

Why steal music when things like the Amazon MP3 store and Spotify exist?

I just got Daft Punk's new album for ?4 on the MP3 store. I've bought lunches which cost more than that.

I don't think viruses are your biggest concern when torrenting.

I would think keyloggers and other subtle spyware are the things to be wary of.

Or the RIAA and its pack of lawyers for those living in the US.

Why steal music when things like the Amazon MP3 store and Spotify exist?

I just got Daft Punk's new album for ?4 on the MP3 store. I've bought lunches which cost more than that.

Agree. With a Spotify account for about 9 pounds a month I legally have all the music I need, anywhere, anytime on my phone and my computer.

For free you can go to http://www.grooveshark.com and get the same thing as spotify. I don't know if it has a mobile version though, but that doesn't bother me.

Why steal music when things like the Amazon MP3 store and Spotify exist?

Pirating and stealing, not the same things. Most pirates buy the stuff they like if it's available at an affordable price. The free market nuts don't like it because it moves power from corporations to consumers. Piracy is really a good thing for the music, games and film industries because good products becomes more important than good marketing.

@2muchvideogames: I'm uploading my collection of Half-Life-related files to FileFront. Maybe you'll find something interesting there. I'll create a thread when I'm done.

I've read an analogy that likens software piracy to Jesus: Jesus had a few loaves of bread and some fish, and made free copies of them without paying the baker or the fisherman for them. Then he distributed these copies to the people free of charge. So, did Jesus steal that bread from the baker? The baker certainly isn't missing any bread.

He's not missing any bread, but he's missing the money he would have earned from the people had they not been given free bread.

And it's all very well saying that "most pirates buy the stuff they like" and you may well do so yourself. Certainly I justify movie piracy for that reason, because I do go and buy the DVD if I like it, but that's only because a good, cheap, legal alternative doesn't exist [in the UK] yet.
It does exist for music and I'm quite happy to fork out ?0.50 to sample a track to see if I like an artist before committing to the full album.

I don't think it's the most morally questionable thing on the planet or anything, and I certainly don't liken it to stealing a handbag, but it is stealing. Don't kid yourself that it isn't.

Oh Jesus what have i done... (Unrelated to PB's quoted analogy)

INB4 SHITSTORM AND CLOSE

damn you and your edit block.

Edit:
I feel this post is missing a solid point, so I'll just add that what I'm really trying to say is that pirating music just isn't necessary.
If you do it because you're not willing to pay ~?3.99 for an entire album (store price average ?12) then stop being such a cheapskate.
If you do it because you can't afford to pay ~?3.99, then you should be even more concerned about the possible legal ramifications. A friend of mine was fined ?7000 and had his hard drive wiped.

Payback is a bitch, you just blocked a edit that would have made my post less logically faulted.

No seriously though, can we just, skim right off the topic? Nothing good will come of this. (Not aimed at you Archie, but rather anybody further posting.)

thanks potatis, I look forward to your effort!

anyway you other guys really have to look at this thread title and tell me what it has to do with what u discussing right now.

EXPERIMENT SUCCESS

I think we established that a good while ago.

I only pirate stuff I can't get through other means. Stuff that out of print or not being sold anymore.

Jesus copied the bread because the people couldn't afford it themselves. If they didn't get the Jesus bread, they wouldn't have been able to pay the baker for the bread anyway. So, the people get the bread, the baker doesn't lose any bread, and the baker doesn't lose any potential customers because they never were in the first place.

I'm not saying that all pirates are similar to this, but I think that the majority of pirates wouldn't have paid for the content if piracy wasn't an option. In fact, they get exposed to the content (game, music, whatever) and that equals increased customer base, which increases sales.

Copyright infringement and stealing are two different things. For me, all my music is pirated because the majority of them aren't even published (game soundtracks). I don't want CD's because they're silly and take up space, and buying from an online stores offers zero improvement over the MP3's I already have (unlike, for example, Steam, which adds value with automatic updates, centralised game lists, and so on). I would pay for more music if I could use the tracks in my own works under a creative commons license without the threat of having my ass sued off. The music industry is fucking itself over at the moment and only has itself to thank.

I pirate games that I wouldn't buy to see if they are any good. If I like them, I buy them. If not for piracy, I wouldn't have ever bought those games. Piracy can, in some situations, increase sales. The game industry is starting to adjust to piracy by offering more multiplayer elements, which increase piracy-to-purchase rates.

Of course you have the people who can easily afford the stuff, and would pay for the content if they couldn't pirate it - but pirate it anyway. This might be considered "stealing", but not in the literal interpretation of the word. The majority of pirates are just infringing copyright, not stealing.

Most people don't pirate to sample. They'll pirate it, finish it and then won't touch it again. The majority of pirates don't fit the "wasn't going to buy it anyway" mould.

Your Jesus analogy works for, say, Photoshop. Average Joe Student isn't going to pay however-many-hundred for a legal CS5 license because it's ridiculous to expect them to be able to afford it. They pirate software like that, gain a great deal of skill in using it first hand and then potentially get a job with a company who does have a license for it. I totally approve of this.

But I don't personally know anyone who can't afford an album at around a quarter of the retail price, and I also don't know anyone who actually buys an album after "evaluating" a pirated version of it.

Also, I am aware that this thread has been majorly de-railed, but it's quite a good discussion.

Wow! what the heck got started here?

I never claimed to be a pirate so let's take all the hype out of the conversation. I always seem to start these serious debates.

There are some good legal uses for Bit Torrents as well. It's not all pirated software and music you know?

And you can't justify stealing....either you do it or not. Don't say that it is good for the industry cause it's not. We all know that they would make more money from the their products if people just simply bought them.

As Huntey and other have pointed out there are plenty of places to get cheap or even free music legally.

Me, personally, I try and stay away from pirated software anymore because it does contain some nasty viruses and I don't care what anyone says; hackers who want you computer destroyed still lurk in the bit torrent world.

And movies just get you that letter from your IP. I don't know if it's really worth doing that as well since you never know if they are really going to sue you.

Personally, I only use Bit Torrents when I really really need something that I may not be able to afford right away. Most of the time I just buy the OEM version when I can because yes, I don't have to worry about it.

Stealing is stealing....you can't justify it.

This feels like the chamber of confessions.

In fact, they get exposed to the content (game, music, whatever) and that equals increased customer base, which increases sales.

Think of it this way, I purchase a ticket to go see inception at the imax, I watch it and think it's great, then recommend it to all my friends, why can't I get the same thing from obtaining a game, regardless of whether or not it's legally purchased? It makes no difference.

(Minus the side effects of glitches\patches.)

Oh come on. You've all done it.

Don't you mean We, Ant? Rather than You've?

Most people don't pirate to sample. They'll pirate it, finish it and then won't touch it again. The majority of pirates don't fit the "wasn't going to buy it anyway" mould.

Can I be a good example here? I disagree and i suppose i Don't fit in with the majority in this case, I downloaded Splinter Cell conviction after being very skeptical after seeing all the trailers and gameplay footage (I realy didn't like where they were taking the series), then after 'sampling' it for 2 weeks I deleted it, and my play to the game was limited to the 360 demo, after my 360 died, Onlive launched and I only played it through that, and now that it's on sale for 22$ I purchased it and It's now sitting on my account, ready for download.

So really, what happened here is the exact opposite of what some of you are saying; Ubisoft didn't lose a potential customer... They gained one, because I tried the game and actually liked it, mind you my 360 was in the shop so I couldn't download the demo at the time.

Stealing is stealing....you can't justify it.

I could quite easily justify stealing - Robin Hood. "Pirating" patented medicine, etc, etc.

pirating a game off the internet is like downloading a song 'for personal use only.

Stealing or survival? I would have dropped out of school if I hadn't acquired the stuff I needed. I still had to dish out the $250 for my god awful algebra book.

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