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1. WhiteExodite (bleedingphoenix@wolfgirl.bar)'s status on Friday, 09-Jun-2023 10:00:19 JST WhiteExodite
   yeah
   
   https://wolfgirl.bar/notice/AWUuVQRZKNRe2ylZnE
   • WhiteExodite (bleedingphoenix@wolfgirl.bar)'s status on Friday, 09-Jun-2023 10:00:16 JST WhiteExodite

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     • Giganova8 :sob2: :nacho_dead:
     this is why i think the solution is increasingly inner exclusive circles. a preferable future is one where pirating games and software is a skill to be taken up, and when you want a game you just ask someone in your circle who knows how to do it. however, i think it's also highly likely that all the games worth pirating have probably already been made, so most people will simply not try the game at all if they can't pirate.
     
     gaming will begin to divide into sectors, one for the mainstream and another for genuine gamers. we see this already with the indie genre. if the trend of AAA games continues, we may see an even wider chasm grow, and maybe a third option of full-featured open-source games. and obviously that won't count chaps like me who'll keep playing old, already-pirated games.
   • Meemoo (meemoo@varishangout.net)'s status on Friday, 09-Jun-2023 10:00:16 JST Meemoo

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     • Giganova8 :sob2: :nacho_dead:
     @bleedingphoenix @Giganova8 that already exists, it's called the warez scene.
     
     Good luck getting in though,
     Or even maintaining your spot and generating credit if you manage to make it
   • Giganova8 :sob2: :nacho_dead: (giganova8@varishangout.net)'s status on Friday, 09-Jun-2023 10:00:17 JST Giganova8 :sob2: :nacho_dead:

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     • Dreamsicle Glorious
     @bleedingphoenix @OrangeyIs
     Depends on how far the paypigs propping up the current DRM models can be pushed. So long as retards are willing to pay for things locked down with DRM, companies will keep pushing DRM so they can control access to their product. Can't have those nasty pirates making uncensored backups for the future, after all. :sui_disgust:
     
     Also depends on whether we get a new generation willing to go through the trouble of setting up and maintaining pirate sites. This seems to have become less and less common, especially seeing as how pirates sites now have to deal with pajeet/SEAnig sccuddlers hammering them to rehost the content on their own shitty clickbait sites.
     
     Remember: They don't have to stop piracy, they just have to make it less convenient and usable than suffering through the DRM, and make piracy sufficiently taboo socially. Piracy will dry up all on its own after that (see: every public pirate site for the last 2-3 years) :zt_sad:
   • WhiteExodite (bleedingphoenix@wolfgirl.bar)'s status on Friday, 09-Jun-2023 10:00:18 JST WhiteExodite

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     • Dreamsicle Glorious
     i'm curious what the future of DRM will be. we're in an age of over-positivity, so gamers might just get used to it and even defend it; but there is a chance the backlash will stand and something will happen. on the plus side, it does make for an efficient filter: i'll just play MMBN on an emulator or on a DS
   • Dreamsicle Glorious (orangeyis@bae.st)'s status on Friday, 09-Jun-2023 10:00:19 JST Dreamsicle Glorious

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     @bleedingphoenix It's times like these making me wish that Steam had a policy forbidding pubs from adding more DRM to their games.
   • Meemoo (meemoo@varishangout.net)'s status on Friday, 09-Jun-2023 10:12:48 JST Meemoo

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     • Giganova8 :sob2: :nacho_dead:
     @bleedingphoenix @Giganova8 I am in a private tracker site that is invite-only
     
     While getting stuff there is easy, it's not something I would want to become the norm.
     
     Requiring an inside contact to let you in is a massive hurdle to get through if not impossible sometimes, and that's without mentioning all the odd and gay rules that you have to follow inside the place.
     
     The warez scene is even worse because they require you to do illegal stuff in order to earn credit for downloading
   • WhiteExodite (bleedingphoenix@wolfgirl.bar)'s status on Friday, 09-Jun-2023 10:12:49 JST WhiteExodite

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     • Giganova8 :sob2: :nacho_dead:
     • Meemoo
     @Meemoo @Giganova8 well yes, but i mean that will grow to some extent should real pirating alternatives go south. the actual margin may vary, but with demand will certainly come dedicated newblood.
   • Meemoo (meemoo@varishangout.net)'s status on Friday, 09-Jun-2023 11:30:33 JST Meemoo

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     • Yagamaska
     • Giganova8 :sob2: :nacho_dead:
     @Yagamaska @bleedingphoenix @Giganova8 didn't know it had registrations closed
     
     That's incredibly retarded
   • Yagamaska (yagamaska@varishangout.net)'s status on Friday, 09-Jun-2023 11:30:34 JST Yagamaska

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     • Giganova8 :sob2: :nacho_dead:
     @bleedingphoenix @Giganova8
     Nyaa is also blocked by certain iSPs for about the same amount of time, but the "no registration" thing is even worse as God knows how many people buy and rip shit only with no way to feasibly share it. Hell, once upon a time e-hentai used to host a few mainstream stuff (or was just Kodomo no Jikan?) in the increasingly ancient aughts.
   • Meemoo (meemoo@varishangout.net)'s status on Friday, 09-Jun-2023 12:13:39 JST Meemoo

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     • Yagamaska
     • Giganova8 :sob2: :nacho_dead:
     @Giganova8 @Yagamaska @bleedingphoenix
     
     Sounds like they wanted to turn the place into a cool kids club for ego stroking
     
     Did the admin transition or something
   • Giganova8 :sob2: :nacho_dead: (giganova8@varishangout.net)'s status on Friday, 09-Jun-2023 12:13:40 JST Giganova8 :sob2: :nacho_dead:

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     • Yagamaska
     • Meemoo
     @Meemoo @Yagamaska @bleedingphoenix
     Yeah they locked 'em back in April 2021. There's an IRC channel, but the FAQ specifically says anyone joining it to ask for an account will be banned without warning, so who the fuck knows what their deal is. :akko_weary: