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The original was posted on /r/piracy by /u/Inevitable_Push4543 on 2024-09-09 18:13:20+00:00.
Today I saw a post talking about the brazilian "green steam" a steam like engine that let you torrent games for free, you guys seemed astonished by the idea of having a free steam, like it was something from outside of this world, ohhhh poor children of the sea! you have no idea of how advanced piracy is in underdeveloped and developing countries. And that's why I am writing this, so your heroes and be known, and your brains blown, by how advanced and beautiful piracy can be, let's sail:
Charpter 1: Fresh sails
I was a 7 years old brazilian, when my father came back from a work trip in China, we were a middle class family, my father brought us gifts, while my brothers got clothes and other ordinary gifts, I got a unlocked (cracked as you may prefer) Playstation 2, at that time (2008) it was a huge deal, as most of the hardware was new in underdeveloped nations, due to big companies not exporting to underdeveloped nations to keep profit growth. They soon realize it was a big mistake as ps2 was being unlocked and sold, for profit, in underdeveloped countries by China, people began buying ps2 en mass just to unlock and sell for profit, that made the ps2 the most sold console in gaming history, a big achievement attributed to us pirates, forgers and petty criminals. Sony won the console war, but the real winner were us, the third world citizens, that could buy 3 games for a dollar, an original game was 20 dollars at the time, the game economy in Latin America and Asia blew outside of any predictions, paving a calm sea for piracy, people would pay less than a dollar to play any game, watch any movie, read any book, the poor all of sudden weren't so poor, as it had affordable access to knowledge, clothing, culture and leisure.
Charpter 2: Economy grows, pirates crumble
As Economy grows the consumer becomes more powerful and critical and the consumer wanted everything, from games in his native language to online multi-player, and the industry gave them, consoles and games became affordable, due to the boost in the economy and higher minimum wages, kids would get a brand new (and not unlocked) ps3 for Christmas and play black ops 1 and the little big planet all night, with online multi-player, something that in 2011 was a PC only thing, but PCs where expensive as hell at the time, with the new multi-player or nothing mentality, piracy in games started to crumble, games were translated to Spanish, Portuguese (brazilian version) and other Asian languages and multi-player wasn't only splitscreen anymore. Clothing and movies meet the fate as netflix became a cheap must have and original clothing became affordable, piracy was no more, and with that the PC console wars started in the third world, the winner would decide the future of the pirated games.
Charpter 3: The Dutchman flies again
Out of nowhere the Pandemic became a reality, thousands of deaths, people being thrown in common graves, hospitals working above its capacities, chaos in the streets, people started to belive it was humanity's last breath, mostly of the countries around the world declared full lockdown, people started loosing their jobs, the world economy started to fall, the market was saturated with stream services and mid games and in addition the working people became poorer and poorer by the months passing by, that's when the Dutchman flew again, piracy started to grow as people became more desperate to relive themselves from certain viral death, pirate movie sites became the most popular host for us sea criminals, due to a overly saturated stream services market, and games became a distraction from the political and mental turmoil generated by the lockdown, PC was affordable and popular after winning the console war and piracy saw a clean horizon to sail and grow. thanks to those sea heroes that keept our minds safe amidst the storm!
Charpter 4: The American armada strikes back
After the lockdowns the pirates did not back down, piracy was thriving, and that was bad news for the big companies that wanted to sink those copyright menaces, the FBI started working with other federal polices from other countries to halt piracy, and so they did, movies, animes, games, books and academic resources, nothing was safe from the American Armada, their cannons fired and our ships sank, 10 out of 10 sites in the initial page of Google were taken down, for the first time they were arresting and persecuting pirate site owners, it was war, but the poor already chose its champions. Too many streaming services for too much money? Don't worry, there's pirate devices that can transform any TV in a smart TV and play anything from any stream platform. Games are are expensive and terrible lately? Don't worry, all hail hydra! The green steam can torrent you any game (fuck denovo tho)!!! Even ps4 got unlocked and sold just like the good old days of the ps2, all of suddenly piracy wasn't threatened anymore in the third world, it was growing again, even against the federal threat.
Piracy cannot be killed as the poor keep growing and the industry keeps throwing trash at us to consume, consume and consume.
Hope you guys have a wonderful day! Don't forget to donate to your favorite cracker and repacker.
Shout-out to that brazilian pirate merchant that threatened to set himself on fire if police confiscated their goods, you are the goat! I bet you would love this sub.
