I’m in the games industry. This is exactly how it works.
I am in the finance industry. This is exactly how it works.
If you say something nice about the game to 2 friends where 1 friend pirates and the other buys, the company makes net 0 from the sales, and they tell 2 friends and so on. Then after buying company in bankruptcy, use remote exploit to delete all copies and send shares skyrocketing even more than OP.
The hard part is having enough storage to pirate a $60 game a million times.
Open a million free accounts on some cloud storage website
Dropbox, Google, Microsoft, AltaVista, Netscape Navigator…
Deduplication!
Does it count as a pirated copy if it’s deduped? 🤔
Just because the datablocks are deduplicated the filenames would be uniqe.
But would that mean that a symlink is also a pirated copy? 😄
Probably yes. ;)
I just use btrfs duplication so it’s easy and doesn’t waste additional space. Pirates of old used caves near an X, but risk of must. I don’t use X because of musk.
