As I said before, all these are mirrored separately by other people, so why can't I just happen to mirror them all in one place. I happen to just be mirroring on my GitHub, quite innocently, that steam cache from 2003, a personal 3D engine fork called xash3d and the public Half-Life SDKs for people to read through. Its not like they can turn around and ask us all for the disks back and to delete the files. This is partially an experiment to see if a DMCA takedown will happen. A quick scan through the legal text on the installer also doesn't exclude redistribution either. Valve were more than happy to share it to get people hooked. It is to populate the Steam cache for those with weak internet back in the early 2000's. Is there a reason why File Planet or a random ftp such as this can redistribute it and not me / GitHub? If I recall at lan events, i.e i21 back then we were handed disks with these files on and it was shared on usb sticks too.
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