Who says piracy doesn't pay, or in this case, repay the prey?
It seems Rockstar, the folks responsible for the Grand Theft Auto and Red Dead games, may have gotten a little lazy compiling the Steam release of Max Payne 2. That's if you buy the legitimacy of this screenshot posted to a Steam message board thread titled "Now that was a bit lazy of you rockstar."
The screenshot purports to contain the ASCII logo of former pirate group Myth. Pirate releases often include a text file with information about the rip, including a group logo constructed using ASCII symbols. Scan the picture above and you can almost make out the letter M-Y-T-H between the rest of the garbled text translation.
That text reportedly appears in the maxpayne2.exe file, implying that whoever compiled the Steam version of the game used Myth's crack (which ostensibly removes the CD check) to allow the game to run without reference to optical media.
More: http://pcworld.com/article/196131/
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It seems Rockstar, the folks responsible for the Grand Theft Auto and Red Dead games, may have gotten a little lazy compiling the Steam release of Max Payne 2. That's if you buy the legitimacy of this screenshot posted to a Steam message board thread titled "Now that was a bit lazy of you rockstar."
The screenshot purports to contain the ASCII logo of former pirate group Myth. Pirate releases often include a text file with information about the rip, including a group logo constructed using ASCII symbols. Scan the picture above and you can almost make out the letter M-Y-T-H between the rest of the garbled text translation.
That text reportedly appears in the maxpayne2.exe file, implying that whoever compiled the Steam version of the game used Myth's crack (which ostensibly removes the CD check) to allow the game to run without reference to optical media.
More: http://pcworld.com/article/196131/
