Running Hl From A Cd To Play Ns 1.04 ^___^
ThoraX
Join Date: 2003-06-19 Member: 17519Members
Join Date: 2003-06-19 Member: 17519Members
<div class="IPBDescription">I need help with this...</div> I want to play a game of 1.04 at school with some friends, but I'm pretty sure they wont like it if i installed HL and NS onto the computers. Is there a way I can run it off a CD? I'm at school right now (in class actually), and I brought a CD with HL and NS1.04 burned onto it, but no registry key so I cant play. I have my HL CD here too, I figured i might need it. I guess I just need to know how to get a registry key without installing HL... :/
Anyone who helps will get caek and pai.
Anyone who helps will get caek and pai.
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That aside, what you intend to do is illegal by the way. Copyright laws and stuff. Basically you'll need to go purchase a copy of HL for each computer you wish to install it on at your school (using a copy of one you legally own still violates copyright laws as it is likely to be simultaneously installed on more than one machine at a given time)
Sorry to burst your bubble.
hmm... i see... nevermind then... O_o
That aside, what you intend to do is illegal by the way. Copyright laws and stuff. Basically you'll need to go purchase a copy of HL for each computer you wish to install it on at your school (using a copy of one you legally own still violates copyright laws as it is likely to be simultaneously installed on more than one machine at a given time)
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Yeah, System administrators are fat lazy coffee-drinkin welfare-supported sadistical people.
Anyway, could somehow give me a link to da cowpy lore so I see for myself?
That aside, what you intend to do is illegal by the way. Copyright laws and stuff. Basically you'll need to go purchase a copy of HL for each computer you wish to install it on at your school (using a copy of one you legally own still violates copyright laws as it is likely to be simultaneously installed on more than one machine at a given time)
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Thats so the rich kids can have a new yacht each semester at harvard.
That aside, what you intend to do is illegal by the way. Copyright laws and stuff. Basically you'll need to go purchase a copy of HL for each computer you wish to install it on at your school (using a copy of one you legally own still violates copyright laws as it is likely to be simultaneously installed on more than one machine at a given time)
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it wont be installed, and if they have a copy of their own at home and use their own individual CD keys there's nothing wrong with it.
and if there was, to find out the odds of getting busted, take the odds of getting busted for using kazaa, multilply that chance by a pentapuagoogle, and there're your odds.
i did this in school with starcraft, ran the entire game right off the CD rom (boy were the AzNs impressed), and im pretty damn sure the same could be done with HL/NS.
btw CommunistWithAGun, you just explained in essence my motivation and moral explination as to why <span style='color:red'>*NUKED.*</span>
back on topic here... have you tried simply putting the half-life folder (c:\sierra\half-life\) on cd with nothing but the required HL files and NS mod folder and then running it from the drive? that'll be your first step in testing, you know....
eh... its their product, their money... they get to do with it as they please. Its not like we have to buy the product. If you're really desperate, go move to Pakistan and you can have all the free software that you want... though I doubt you'd be able to get a job or socialize once moving there. <!--emo&:p--><img src='http://www.unknownworlds.com/forums/html//emoticons/tounge.gif' border='0' style='vertical-align:middle' alt='tounge.gif' /><!--endemo-->
That aside, what you intend to do is illegal by the way. Copyright laws and stuff. Basically you'll need to go purchase a copy of HL for each computer you wish to install it on at your school (using a copy of one you legally own still violates copyright laws as it is likely to be simultaneously installed on more than one machine at a given time)
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it wont be installed, and if they have a copy of their own at home and use their own individual CD keys there's nothing wrong with it.
and if there was, to find out the odds of getting busted, take the odds of getting busted for using kazaa, multilply that chance by a pentapuagoogle, and there're your odds.
i did this in school with starcraft, ran the entire game right off the CD rom (boy were the AzNs impressed), and im pretty damn sure the same could be done with HL/NS.
btw CommunistWithAGun, you just explained in essence my motivation and moral explination as to why <span style='color:red'>*NUKED.*</span>
back on topic here... have you tried simply putting the half-life folder (c:\sierra\half-life\) on cd with nothing but the required HL files and NS mod folder and then running it from the drive? that'll be your first step in testing, you know.... <!--QuoteEnd--></td></tr></table><div class='postcolor'><!--QuoteEEnd-->
Ah... but it will be installed... that CD that holds the copied information has arguably had the game installed to it. If that copy gets run on another machine than the one it is already installed on then it is an infringement. Removeable media is considered close enough to a harddrive for the government.
The post about having everyone use pre-existing Steam accounts and downloading all the content that way is the only way I can see you guys getting around a copyright infringement as the Steam license is nice like that. The catch is that all your buddies still have to have a legit copy of HL (and thus a cd key / Steam account) to play.
That brings you back to the issue of installing software on public property that has not been licensed / authorized by the public institution, which is also illegal.
On top of that there is a question of "public showing" that comes up since you are playing the game in a publicly open place. That means that you'd have to contact the company for permission to use the software in a public arena.
You can see where this is leading.
I'm saddened by how much illegal stuff is happening simply because "they probably won't catch us anyway"... why not just play the damn game inside the luxury of your own home where it is meant to be played... or at a cyber cafe... and do at school what you're SUPPOSED to do at school...
No wonder kids these days are beat out of ivy league schools by rocks and slugs. This country (USA) could REALLY do with a social makeover.
Steam-wise, you can't toss it on a CD, much less run it from one. It'd be unlikely that you'd fit the WON-HL directory plus NS on a single CD, uncompressed (aka: playable). The registry keys would not 'follow' anyway, meaning something on the machine itself would have to be altered, meaning check with the sysadmins.
In any case, it's far more likely that the machines are intended for work to be done on them by students, rather than being used for playing video games.
<span style='color:red'>*LOCKED.*</span>