The ESA, which represents several major gaming companies, has shared an updated list of notorious piracy threats with the U.S. Government. One of the notable newcomers is FitGirl-Repacks, which has been a dominant player in the game piracy landscape for years. Meanwhile, ESA’s report no longer mentions malware, cryptocurrencies, or Scene release groups, which were previously seen as ‘growing trends’.

  • monstoor@lemmy.dbzer0.com
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    2 months ago

    The site operator is non-responsive to ESA take-down notices and runs a backup version of the site at dodi-repacks.download.

    Well, depending on where the website host is located, they may not need to comply. I wasn’t aware of the backup site mentioned above, though; maybe Dodi and FitGirl are one and the same? ;-)

    EDIT: Grammar.

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      maybe Dodi and FitGirl are one and the same?

      I don’t think so, I specifically use Dodi repacks because they seem to extract better. I find FitGirl repacks can take hours to extract and often crash.

      Also, I think they’re talking about dodi-repacks.download being a backup for the main Dodi site, not FitGirl.

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        Fitgirls packs take forever because she uses an insane conpression ratio. They will typically download faster as a result. But installation can take much longer as a result of the compression.

        Fortunately, there is the uncapped ram mode. It longer limits itself on ram so its able to uncompress qnd install much more quickly in beefier conputers

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    2 months ago

    “One of the notable newcomers is FitGirl-Repacks”

    Fitgirl’s been around over a decade.

    they’ll catch up to fitgirl in another decade or so, by which time there are going to be five new fitgirls. five dozen?

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      2 months ago

      They mean newcomer to the list. Here’s what it says right after your quote: “which has been a dominant player in the game piracy landscape for years”

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        2 months ago

        oh, got it.

        I almost quoted the whole thing because I was like why would they write “newcomer” and “for years” one after the other?

        thanks

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    2 months ago

    I can’t imagine being the people who pretend companies are hurt by piracy