1337x admins allowing BG3 torrent with bitcoin miner stand after multiple reports in comments with proof, seems like the site lost it’s credibility. Suspicious that the user is also shilling to donate to 1337x, suspecting him being somehow affiliated with 1337x mods

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    1 year ago

    I’m not against pirating, but given how long it’s taken to crack some of the stuff I was waiting for, and watching things drop to like $10 from a $60 title after a year or two, now I just perpetually wait 2 years until I buy any game. Pirating movies, music, and other ‘consumables’…great. Pirating executable content, no fucking thank you. I learned that lesson as a teenager, and I’m not going to put my computer at risk in that way any longer.

    Just too many hoops to jump through to maintain a secure PC when pirating games/applications. Anyone who thought 1337 was “safe” to begin with, is fucking stupid.

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        Many games, etc detect being launched from within a virtual machine and will refuse to run. I already run Proxmox here at home with plenty of virtual machines for various services like jellyfin. I’ve unlocked my 3080 to do proper hardware GPU passthrough and partitioning and even normal…non-pirated games will refuse to run in a VM.

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          I don’t remember what program, but I remember coming across some people who didn’t feel comfortable giving games like Valorant and Genshin Impact kernel level access so ran it on what they called bare metal or something running it off another drive. Maybe it was Ventoy?

          Have wondered if a dedicated drive for just pirated software and games would help keep the main system safer with how cheap ssds have gotten. Maybe a way to run it off an external ssd while blocking off access to other storage that doesn’t have pirated content?

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                The problem is that it doesn’t. You running this one game that works, doesn’t account for the huge library of games that don’t run in that manner. It doesn’t invalidate my point that spinning up VMs just so you can pirate games is a lot of bullshit to go through just to pirate a game that’s gonna be $10, 6 months from now.

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                  I mean, I get what you’re saying, and yeah in your scenario it doesn’t make sense. There are some people for who piracy is much more necessary

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                  I dunno man, you made a point, he countered your point, and you got defensive and doubled down, sounds like the discussion is over

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                    That’s…what discussions are… point, counterpoint, point, counterpoint, growth of opinion, why would the discussion stop just because we might disagree? We can continue refining our arguments and both grow from the discussion. Why the hell are people on Lemmy so…weird? I’ve got so many of these discussions where people just devolve into name calling or accusatory statements instead of just…being normal. Don’t you guys like to actually have people with different views challenge your opinion so that you can think about it more, refine, and have a chance to change that opinion? Have you been so neglected in life that you don’t know what a normal discussion between people is like?

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        With a miner for a game with online content then virtual machine doesn’t save you. It may keep.your data safe but still uses your resources for mining.

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        So people run games through a Virtual Machine? I haven’t pirated PC games due to not trusting them, so have been curious the steps people take to avoid situations like what occurred. Have wondered if some people have a dedicated PC for just pirated games, or at the very least run it off an external drive.