• Hanrahan@slrpnk.net
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      Yeah… they’ve been playing tbis broken record for decades now, if.what they say was true, there’d be no muaic industry, no film and tv industry and no game industry by now.

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    Do they only target torrent sites or something? Because there’s places that have been around for decades that are still up and fine.

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      No. The one they are talking about seizing most recently served torrents, but also had direct file listings to ROMs.

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      TPB is basically immortal. Any instance taken down can be back up in minutes. It’s a game of whack-a-mole you can never win.

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        Seems that way now, but just imagine AI… Once we ChatGPT our investigations, the pirates will all be caught so super-fast. Give us money, please.

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    Fuuuuuck Nintendo. No one hates their fans more than Nintendo.

    They are bricking brand new consoles, locking their USB ports to approved hardware, charging for the tech demo that would customarily be free on an $800 device. And that’s just this year.

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      I refused to buy anything Sony due to the dodgy shit from the PS3 days. And that’s anything, no TV’s or phones. Nothing. If a film is made by Sony I don’t go to the cinema to see it.

      Microsoft is the same. I have only once bought anything from Microsoft and that was a licence for a windows operating system but I can’t even remember which version it was. I know it was from before Windows7. However, never again.

      And now Nintendo is on my shit list.

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    Hey FBI thanks for letting me know about nsw2u cc I had no idea this thing existed…but now I do, so thank you.

    seriously though I use the megathread and it has quite literally everything. literally the only good thing to come from reddit.

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      Especially Nintendo. I wouldn’t be surprised if Nintendo is less affected by piracy than games on PC just because of the barrier to entry to even be able to purchase a Nintendo game with the console being first required.

      And Nintendo is the most expensive console too with how sales are so rare for their exclusives compared to the other consoles, so likely not even on the radar for pirates who are already looking to not spend money. Console doesn’t award even patient gaming with games not dropping much even after years go by for their exclusives.

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    Good old ”download equals a sale” rhetoric still doing a lot of work in these headlines. It’s been decades.

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    I love how they always try to pull the same bull that if the only way to obtain something like a ROM was through legal means that these companies would suddenly see a surge of millions more in revenue.

    It’s just as absurd as the people who say that thoughts and prayers alone will eventually end all school shootings in America.