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[-] PeriodicallyPedantic@lemmy.ca 64 points 2 months ago

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: 🫣

[-] eah@programming.dev 17 points 2 months ago

It's a catch 22. If everyone uses it, game companies get it shut down, and then it doesn't exist, and then nobody uses it. The only existing methods of piracy are little known. That you've never heard of it is expected.

[-] HeyThisIsntTheYMCA@lemmy.world 5 points 2 months ago

I was so upset when the vault got dmca'd

[-] djsoren19@lemmy.blahaj.zone 9 points 2 months ago

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.

[-] PeriodicallyPedantic@lemmy.ca 2 points 2 months ago

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.

[-] cassandrafatigue@lemmy.dbzer0.com 3 points 2 months ago
[-] PeriodicallyPedantic@lemmy.ca 3 points 2 months ago

Yeah, I know, it doesn't actually work, because capitalism is a joke. But you get the idea, I think

[-] Squizzy@lemmy.world 1 points 2 months ago

I am so wary of downloading them though, exe files are scary for fools like me

[-] Lemminary@lemmy.world 8 points 2 months ago
[-] ICastFist@programming.dev 2 points 2 months ago

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

[-] underisk@lemmy.ml 2 points 2 months ago

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.

[-] ICastFist@programming.dev 2 points 2 months ago

ping 103.224.182.241 gives me a "general failure". At least I can still find stuff via qbittorrent's builtin search

[-] Lemminary@lemmy.world 1 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago)

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

[-] Kolanaki@pawb.social 14 points 2 months ago

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

[-] winkerjadams@lemmy.dbzer0.com 7 points 2 months ago

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

[-] Evoliddaw@lemmy.ca 2 points 2 months ago

Ahh man that makes so much more sense than deebeezer zero, sometimes I'm slow

[-] hoppolito@mander.xyz 1 points 2 months ago

Stands for ‘divide by zero’ as far as I know, if that helps

[-] Korhaka@sopuli.xyz 1 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 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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