What happened to piracy being this niche thing everyone just avoided to openly talk about to prevent their favorite website getting mainstream attention and thus going down? Everywhere i see now everyone talks about it so openly just to mock everyone who dares to spend a single dime on their hobbie, and they even went as far away to getting pegged by a trannie just to get the name of the next game to be cracked by said trannie, hell this is the only board who takes it this far, Ganker Ganker and Ganker often share stream rips and torrents without making that much big deal out of it.
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I don't know about other websites but Ganker - The Vidya has always been like that across the 15 years I've been here
Why be a pussy and avoid saying you do it?
Threadly reminder that only israelites fear piracy.
Did you forget about the existence of /t/?
For all the cops on this site, /t/ makes even more sense.
Food Analogy: If people could make good food for cheap, they wouldn't eat at McDonald's anymore.
AI is not piracy, but literally downloading a copy of the songs made by the original artist is. The music industry fears AI.
People CAN make good food for cheap, they're just too lazy to do so in many cases.
The analogy is the same though. People just pay more for things they could pirate because they're lazy and want it to 'just work.'
zoomer thread
Piracy is at its lowest point
For me is IGGGames.
I only pirate retro games and discontinued handhelds, and those roms and guides are pretty openly available
>What happened to piracy being this niche thing everyone just avoided to openly talk about
Well this tells me you were never on this website back when it was good and were probably a normalgay on reddit or wherever that treated piracy like this. Piracy used to be normal, the default, on websites like Ganker. If you weren't pirating you were a stupid dumbass and people made sure you knew it.
>on websites like Ganker
Ganker was niche, and look where not shutting up about it got us
It was fine until the contrarian morons started being contrarian towards themselves and started roleplaying as normalgay to own the neckbeards
Everyone's going to tell you you're wrong, but you're right.
Pirates have become mainstream and entitled. I fricking lost it when I heard fricking Dolphin was not only trying to get on fricking STEAM, but indignant that they were blocked.
Why the frick is piracy mainstream? Why the frick are people putting a spotlight on it? Then when some AAA company inevitably issues a DMCA, why the frick is everyone shocked and surprised? NONE of this would be an issue if people just shut the frick up but everyone NEEDS attention and validation nowadays, it's pure insanity.
that's so lame that someone put thought, time and effort into recreating the deer balloon image and didn't even capture the vibe because of their lack of understanding of framing
Modern games aren't worth paying for.
moron
oh deer
Still waiting for the full game
>Ganker: why don't zoomers know how torrent? the absolute state. imagine mindlessly consooming
>also Ganker: NOOO you can't just talk about piracy openly and encourage people to do it you have to gatekeep!!!
>he wasn't around Napster, Hades or Kazaa
Listen here you little shit
is he ok?
made a a full recovery
He will be soon.
>pirated every piece of digital media since 2004.
There are people/corporations who don't like it? I don't think about them at all.
>he doesn't have a dozen or more private trackers by 2012, let alone 2023.
Be a normalgay somewhere else.
>reee he isn't looking at me he prefers 2d
3dpd
someone post the "this gay buys music" comic
its probably older than some of the posters on this board at this point
There was a Pearls Before Swine comic where a bunch of kids tell the cartoonist that music is free now.
I wish I saved it because I'll never find it again.
People who avoided talking about piracy also thought bad things would happen if you deleted My Computer. Those same people thought you had to have some kind of rare expensive device to burn PS2 dvds.
What used to happen is that websites allowed free downloads from users, and when the whole PIPA/SOPA thing came out, they had to "prove to the government" they weren't a piracy website, so not only they removed unmoderated downloads, but they also made sure no one talked about it. So even searching for piracy was a pain in the ass.
Add every game offering some kind of online functionality and Steam sales and consumers have no reason to pirate whatsoever. So the market doesn't care about piracy anymore, websites don't get in trouble, and people can openly discuss it with no repercussions.
Quite a subtle dystopian picture we got here.
>Quite a subtle dystopian picture we got here.
It's just a deer, moron
Wasn't talking about the deer. moron
is the dog ok
Didn't the balloon say get good? Or was it an edit
There's a ton of pirate websites now and most of them are in jurisdictions where the law enforcement doesn't give a frick about piracy. It's sad that the russian forum and GOG-Games (the latter is already in CDPR's sights and they tried to C&D them but it didn't work out) are the only few reliable pirate sites that still have updated indie games since a lot of worthwhile games shifted towards being indie rather than big titles, and the Pirate Bay is flooded with bots that make lots of fake torrents. With Denuvo around it's also really not a good time for piracy because even when the game gets cracked it's only that version that will be cracked and the subsequent versions will have to be re-cracked from scratch.
>games are so shit nowadays I cant even be fricked to pirate anything