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Looks like we've gotten a firm date for the Counter-Strike 1.6 BETA release. This coming Thursday. In fact tomorrow we're going to get the go ahead to publish any other possible information that may not be known yet about 1.6. This release will only be available via the Steam 2.0 client which will be available on Fileshack. Some random CS related stuff from recent:

• de_airstrip screenshots (new map for 1.6)
  
• CSNation 1.6 info page
  
• Condition Zero preview (elements from CZ will be rolled into CS)
  
• Steam preview (note the interface now looks like what is showin in the CZ preview)

So, look for more info to be published here tomorrow afternoon on Counter-Strike 1.6, and then look for the Steam client to be made available on Fileshack on Thursday.

News source: Shacknews

Based on the patent application, Overpeer appears to be distributing so many defective copies of a given file on P2P networks that users have a hard time locating an undamaged copy. This technique, called "spoofing," has been used by disgruntled musicians and other anti-P2P saboteurs for years.

But spoofing on a grand scale is a different matter. According to Mike Goodman, broadband entertainment analyst at the Yankee Group, it's not complicated to be a network-wide spoofer, but it does require extensive resources. To make a spoofed file "persistent," that is, omnipresent on a P2P network, requires 10,000 copies of the file, Goodman said. Additionally, since P2P networks are set up in clusters of 100,000 machines, a professional spoofer needs enough always-on servers to connect with each of a P2P network's clusters.

Mike adds... "Every time new spoofing comes out, we see file-sharing services come out with a way to counter it. You cannot lock content, not in the digital world."