Piracy: ꜱᴀɪʟ ᴛʜᴇ ʜɪɢʜ ꜱᴇᴀꜱ

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I made this site and hosted it with minimal ads that give all profit to the suppliers of the movie.

The site is completely open source, the github has a guide for self hosting and there are no ads apart from ones that I cant remove.

I made it at the age of 14 for a hackathon called Hack Club Arcade

Github:

(If you could give it a star I would be eternally grateful 😊)

link to hosted site:

edit: btw if you go to the site you cant press enter to search, you have to press the icon, i cant fix that now but i can tmrw

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Original Title: I'm aware that links from the Megathread are supposed to be safe and reliable, but I never got this many flags. Is it just a false positive (nor Google nor Kaspersky flagged it as a virus) or a possible trojan?

I have read in another post that unnamed threats and threats named with the words "gen" and "hack" are generally no problem, and that some antiviruses get paid to flag piracy files as viruses, but I just want to be really sure, so I thought posting this here would be a good idea. I've also read about testing it on a virtual machine (... which I have never done before, but I might try it out if necessary)

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Any time I bring up the fact that $60 - $70 games is too much, I get the answer that "It's always been this way," but is that a good thing? In my opinion, no. I am Canadian, and paying for $100 games is not a reasonable, it gets even worse when AAA games like Elden Ring ($106.49 with DLC) Ends up being $122.43 with Quebec's tax. Don't you guys think this is crazy? Another example, Black Myth: Wukong: $114.96. These prices are insane! To put it into context, a $100 game is nearly a week's wage at my point, and I don't get to keep much money to myself afterwards. And people have the balls to say piracy is stealing or immoral, I literally cannot afford to buy games because companies decided that paying ludicrous prices should be normalized.

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My university doesnt have a textbook requirement so I can use e-books. Where can i find university books? I looked for a theatre book in all three places like z-library, lib genesis and pdf drive but i couldnt find the edition i needed for my course. Now theres math, genetics, organic chemistry and i need their ebooks.

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The other url shut down like last month 😭

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In Short

Watch this video on Microsoft's Driver Signing Process

In Long

Every few weeks now, if you scroll through this subreddit or this subreddit, you'll see posts

Talking about malware or nefarious activity originating from cracked software or games.

Often, the Source of this alledged evil is reverse-engineers, DDL sites or repacker in the scene.

Examples for this are m0nkrus, fitgirl, EMPRESS, SkidRowReloaded, IGG, 1337x and so on.

ALMOST AWAYS, when one of these posts goes viral (which happends simply too easily without moderation) They are usually deemed guilty before proven innocent. A twisted, reversed idea of how to be diligent.

ALMOST NOBODY though, talks about how AntiVirus is about the only alledged evidence in nearly all of the aforementioned cases.

The problem with that is AV Software and Windows (Which is the great majority of Enduser OS choices for Pirated Games and Software) has a system in place that fundamentally needs to be ignored in order to engage in Pirated Content.

Signed Signatures.

Every single driver that is part of a software published by a company needs to go through the process of signing through the Microsoft Developer Program. A process that involves revealing your real ID, paying for said process and a few other steps. Obviously big companies that seek to make a profit with their software is willing to accomodate this process, and so their Software Drivers will be signed and your AV won't detect an Unsigned Signature.

The problem with reverse engineering or breaking Software DRM is, it often involves tampering with the Code used in the software to bypass protections. If a modified DLL is placed within this process, it is now UNSIGNED.

Your Windows System and most AV Software will automatically flag such drivers as potential threats and treat them as malicious. THIS IS WHY almost all repackers and scene release notes include a very clear instruction in almost universal terms.

"DISABLE YOUR ANTIVIRUS DURING INSTALLATION"

This is done for exactly the reason mentioned above.

We need to return to a system of review in which a person, who often at risk of legal trouble contributes to this community out of good will is treated with the respect they deserve and if ANYONE wants to alledge malicious intent they better PROVE IT by giving us more than just a screenshot from fucking Kaspersky.