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hijack, a thought occured to me.

The hl2.exe included in your noCD archive is Valve's copyright. You don't have a license to distribute it. You might get into legal trouble for it.

If you were to remove it, anyone with an installed retail copy of the game could still easily get the file, as the unmodified, SecuROM-free version of the executable is included in source engine.gcf. Just grab GCFScape and extract to the Steam directory.

(I made sure that this works. I overwrote the hl2.exe from your archive with one extracted from my steam engine.gcf. Playing Half-Life 2 sans DVD in drive right now).

Just a thought. At the very least, it would give noCD naysayers one less point to argue.