How to get Nexuiz for FREE!

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I heard about this super game called Nexuiz that I can get for free, so I searched for "nexuiz" on Google.
In the top 50 results I found "Nexuiz warez crack".
If I want to play Nexuiz for free, I must need to download this crack.

Here's a picture of the site:


Ok, so I have to open the .nfo file to get a serial number to unlock Nexuiz.
I typed my email address as it asked, and I clicked "Download".
I got WinZip so I could open the zip file, and I opened the readme.nfo file like it said.
Finally, after scrolling through the cool ASCII art logo, I reached actual text.

Type of production: [X] Patch - [ ] Serial - [ ] Keygen - [ ] Other
Cracker: Boba Fett
Coder: none
Supplier: Boba Fett

Make sure the app is not running when you run the crack.exe.
Thats it. Enjoy!

Ok, now I have to run crack.exe to patch Nexuiz. Too bad the crack is .exe; since Nexuiz runs on Linux and Mac OS they should make cracks for them too.
So I ran crack.exe. After that, I started up Nexuiz and it worked perfectly. The crack lowered the security settings of Internet Explorer, which allowed me to bypass the security features of Darkplaces.

And that is how I got Nexuiz for FREE!



Of course crack.exe is a trojan (I didn't actually run it), Symantec has named it Trojan.LowZones.
Having cracks, warez, and serials distributed for a game is a (bad) sign of its popularity, and this scum of a website making it into the top 50 search results is ridiculous.

[Charliebrownau]

If you are stupid enough to download a Free opensource game from warez http or p2p then you desive to get infected from trojan crack files and popup's



Stop using IE aswell . Convert over to Firefox and be safe from web nasty's

[a thing]

Haha

[esteel]

This is rather serious.. Ok most people should notice that Nexuiz is already as free as it can get (Do not tell my the bsd licence is more free ) so i hope only stupid people fall for this trick. But that this thing is top 50 in google worries me. Does anyone know how the chances are to convince google to take this thing out of the list?
On the other hand its cool to see that Nexuiz is popular enough that people feel this kind of trick will do it. Maybe we should mention on the download page that Nexuiz is a complete game that needs not serials or whatever

[tChr]

This is rather serious.. Ok most people should notice that Nexuiz is already as free as it can get (Do not tell my the bsd licence is more free )

It is.

But to keep this forin being spam only. Making a solid point on the download/intro page that this is a GPL, all free, no money needed pice of softwarea is a good idea.

[KillerKitty]

That's almost as bad as Linspire's Click n' Run system. (If you have the Linspire distro of Linux, you can install software through Click n' Run, which basically makes you pay to install free software with " a single click!").

If you buy "Doom 2" from Click n' Run, it is actually FreeDoom. (http://freedoom.sourceforge.net/).

EDIT: - Hmmm.... Nexuiz seems to be on Click n' Run also.... that's even worse than a warez crack for it! At least it seems to have good user ratings.

I've checked on the Click n' run page, and apparently they say that you should use Click n' Run because installing software on Linux without Click N' Run is like this:

Acquire and unpack tarball. Invoke make file and compile binaries. Check termcap binaries and customize the .Xdefaults. Rename xfoo and install as root.

I wonder if they have ever heard of Klik? (http://klik.atekon.de/) . Yes, you can install software with "a single click!", too, and you don't have to pay $19.95 a year to use it!

[C.Brutail]

Doesn't it break the law of GPL if you sell Nexuiz for money?

[esteel]

Nope, selling is allowed! You can actually do almost anything with Nexuiz as long as you provide the sources and in case you change it make it clear you did and that its based on Nexuiz. Heavily simpified!!!
There have been a few CDs up on Ebay some time back. They were actually done quite nice. Just think about GNU/linux and how many CDs with it are sold

[C.Brutail]

Yes, I have thought after I have written this, and now I know it is allowed

[Toddd]

Acquire and unpack tarball. Invoke make file and compile binaries. Check termcap binaries and customize the .Xdefaults. Rename xfoo and install as root.

That's why I use Ubuntu
And I wouldn't pay 20 bucks a year for Click'n'run - it's horribly outdated. They still got Nex 1.2.1 there...