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alessandro@lemmy.ca to PC Gaming@lemmy.caEnglish · 2 days 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 · 2 days 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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    Just FYI: Links to such sites are a liability for the instance operators.

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

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

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

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      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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