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Why FitGirl won't die: The repacker millions of gamers depend on in an age of surveillance (www.tbsnews.net)
submitted 9 months ago by to c/pcgaming@lemmy.ca
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[–] 65 points 9 months ago (18 children)

Folks here are like "everyone uses it. Eventually all gamers realize it's better"

Me, having never even heard of this in my 30 years of gaming: 🫣

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  • [–] 9 points 9 months ago (4 children)

    I mean, do you pirate games? If you've never gone to a torrent site in your life it's not surprising, but FitGirl's repacks are so numerous that it's hard not to notice them if you do pirate.

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  • [–] 2 points 9 months ago (2 children)

    I used to torrent frequently, but rarely software.
    Since I graduated and started making adult money I haven't really at all. When I want to vote with my wallet, I just don't play it at all (usually these are live service games anyways).

    Although I'm going to start torrenting music and video again on principle.

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  • [–] 8 points 9 months ago (9 children)
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  • [–] 2 points 9 months ago (2 children)

    Huh, the site isn't opening for me at all, DNS_PROBE_ERROR or ERR_NAME_NOT_RESOLVED on my browsers. I wonder if it's a country-wide block in Brazil? I saw some news yesterday on the police raiding pirate servers

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  • [–] 2 points 9 months ago (1 child)

    the IP address is 103.224.182.241 if you want to try adding it to your hosts file to circumvent what appears to be a solely DNS-based block. or just change your DNS lookup server I guess.

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  • [–] 1 point 9 months ago* (5 children)

    Yaaarggh! Fuck you auto mod, I'm trying to be helpful. >:(

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  • [–] 14 points 9 months ago (4 children)

    Just FYI: Links to such sites are a liability for the instance operators.

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  • [–] 7 points 9 months ago (2 children)

    Come sail the seas at dbzero where we dont give a fuck

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  • [–] 1 point 9 months ago*

    Wouldn't they at most have to comply with a DMCA takedown request within a reasonable amount of time? At least that seems to be what major platforms do. Not actually sure what happens for smaller platforms and many lemmy instances are hosted and owned outside the US too.

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