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Buy a sofa.
They're far, far big to do that. If they were found to be operating like that then they'd face fines that would put them right out of business.
Plus halflife 2 isn't the only game to have anti-piracey all games do it's just weather it works or not. But you can get halflife 2 illgally it took 1 day before it was going around the net. All steam did was make sure no-one could get it early which was a good idea.
If so, stop whining.
Also they send games from Australia, which is still PAL, but does not use the same logo's, certificates, etc as England. Maybe that;s got something to do with it as well???