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’.

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    6 months ago

    ESA is the European Space Agency. It’s a pretty prominent acronym. They really couldn’t bother researching it before registering their little butthurt group? Imagine making a corporate group and calling it NASA.

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    6 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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    6 months ago

    From the article, these guys are really clueless about where game cheats get sold, which sucks.

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    6 months ago

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

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      6 months ago

      they are hurt!!!111!!

      emotionally because cannot control every aspect of how play their game. if cannot control life of random people using malware, just not fun to make game.

      /s