I do have the feel that gaming piracy is on a all time low.
At the moment there isn’t even a single active denuvo cracker while there used to be like 3-4.
Probably because stores like steam and gog, which are consumer friendly with fair prices for most products and not linked with stupid subscriptions.
On the other hand movie and shows piracy is rising for the anti-consumer platforms, who can pay $200 a month for seeing all decent shows and movies without ads? Very few people, and even then you own nothing.
I have a feel that music piracy will rise soon too. As Spotify already have started the anti consumer route. I’m pretty sure in a few years it’s subscription won’t be as worth it as it used to be, and a lot of people will find out that they have been paying for years and still own nothing.
Music piracy, while still a thing, is basically nil at this point, because the record industry didn’t fuck up streaming (for the consumer). The artists don’t get paid enough, but from a consumer perspective you don’t have to sub to all the services to get all of the music.
We were so close to that with Netflix back in the beginning. Then the studios got greedy, and here we are.
Music piracy’s still alive here and there. The torrents I usually find are massive FLAC files that have very little advantage over much smaller MP3s though. I might need to buy some really fancy gear to appreciate it maybe.
Music piracy basically amounts to not using sponsored AI playlists
Listening to the music you like instead of the music you are told to like
that’s what music piracy has become today !
I do have the feel that gaming piracy is on a all time low. At the moment there isn’t even a single active denuvo cracker while there used to be like 3-4. Probably because stores like steam and gog, which are consumer friendly with fair prices for most products and not linked with stupid subscriptions.
I don’t know the numbers so I can’t comment on that, but you do realise the vast majority of games don’t launch with Denuvo right? And plenty of games that do only have it for the first 6-12 months because it’s a subscription for them, before taking it out…
I’ve played Baldur’s Gate 3 and Avowed recently, pirated, right at launch, because they didn’t have DRM. Isn’t it still true that nothing on GOG has DRM at all?
How exactly is Steam consumer friendly? Or is the bar so low that companies that don’t shoot themselves in their feet by mistake because they were actually aiming for the customer are considered “consumer friendly”?
I do have the feel that gaming piracy is on a all time low. At the moment there isn’t even a single active denuvo cracker while there used to be like 3-4. Probably because stores like steam and gog, which are consumer friendly with fair prices for most products and not linked with stupid subscriptions.
On the other hand movie and shows piracy is rising for the anti-consumer platforms, who can pay $200 a month for seeing all decent shows and movies without ads? Very few people, and even then you own nothing.
I have a feel that music piracy will rise soon too. As Spotify already have started the anti consumer route. I’m pretty sure in a few years it’s subscription won’t be as worth it as it used to be, and a lot of people will find out that they have been paying for years and still own nothing.
The second that valve goes public and gets horribly enshittified , it will grow exponentially.
I have codex steamdrm crack at good custody for saving my library when it happens.
Is that something that universally works on all Steam games? If so, is this something one can find on public torrent trackers?
https://gitlab.com/Mr_Goldberg/goldberg_emulator
Music piracy, while still a thing, is basically nil at this point, because the record industry didn’t fuck up streaming (for the consumer). The artists don’t get paid enough, but from a consumer perspective you don’t have to sub to all the services to get all of the music.
We were so close to that with Netflix back in the beginning. Then the studios got greedy, and here we are.
Music piracy’s still alive here and there. The torrents I usually find are massive FLAC files that have very little advantage over much smaller MP3s though. I might need to buy some really fancy gear to appreciate it maybe.
Music piracy basically amounts to not using sponsored AI playlists
Listening to the music you like instead of the music you are told to like
that’s what music piracy has become today !
I don’t know the numbers so I can’t comment on that, but you do realise the vast majority of games don’t launch with Denuvo right? And plenty of games that do only have it for the first 6-12 months because it’s a subscription for them, before taking it out…
I’ve played Baldur’s Gate 3 and Avowed recently, pirated, right at launch, because they didn’t have DRM. Isn’t it still true that nothing on GOG has DRM at all?
Sega, Ubisoft, and Atlus being notable exceptions. They just leave that shit in forever.
How exactly is Steam consumer friendly? Or is the bar so low that companies that don’t shoot themselves in their feet by mistake because they were actually aiming for the customer are considered “consumer friendly”?
The bar is, indeed, very low. By comparison I don’t feel as predated as in other shops.