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alessandro@lemmy.ca to PC Gaming@lemmy.caEnglish · 12 hours ago

Why FitGirl won't die: The repacker millions of gamers depend on in an age of surveillance

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Why FitGirl won't die: The repacker millions of gamers depend on in an age of surveillance

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alessandro@lemmy.ca to PC Gaming@lemmy.caEnglish · 12 hours ago
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Ask almost any PC gamer from Asia to South America, and they will tell you the same thing: FitGirl is the one name in piracy that everyone recognises
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    10 hours ago

    I have zero trust installing pirated software, especially when they go out of their way to break it when using wine on Linux or running it in a vm.

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      You must’ve stumbled on some bad sources I’m afraid.

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      They don’t go out of their way to break it, they just don’t pay attention to it (yet). There was an interesting interview here a few months ago: https://lemmy.world/post/32441387

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