“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.'”…excerpt from: Joystiq … Foton: Thank you for opening Pandora’s Box.