TFW to stupid to pirate so legally buy games and software

Tech illiterate babbies can go back to pleddit

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Normally scene releases just come with one, so you probably just don't realize it's there. But if you were to get original files, you'll need to set it up yourself. Getting a different one can also be useful if you want multiplayer or need steam input support.

Learn.

Cope

? That's your "argument" against your own cuckoldry?

Not a snowflake like you.

every kid has a smartphone with unrestricted access to the internet

it takes one app to gain access to the TOR network as well

IT IS 2019 AND THE MAJORITY OF HUMANS ON THIS PLANET STILL HAVE NO IDEA HOW COMPUTERS WORK

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given computers do everything for you nowadays, you never need to learn anything

then once something deviates from the norm it's oh my god what do I do

You don't need to mount it?

Just dont play modern games and you’ll have no problems
Modern games are garbage anyway

Not OP, but how am I supposed to learn anything if the only accessible place on the internet that openly discusses piracy is Yea Forums, and 90% of people here are secretclubfags?

people openly discuss piracy even on shitholes like reddit

it's just the very puritan sites that care like gamefaqs

>only installed fitgirl repacks
>got some funky shit going on like a virus despite the fitgirl is totally safe meme
That’s when I stopped pirating

that's strange, the meme is usually that fitgirl is bitcoin miners

>reddit
They don't even let you talk about specific websites or providers, didn't even bother with those faggots after I saw that.

From what i've heard, fitgirl has DRM dll files that they place that uninstall the game when you delete them.

typically every single scene original releases are safe, but the problem is WHERE you get it from

3rd parties sometime modify those files, and if you got it from the largest normalfag bait shithole you can find from google, then it's probably not the original files

>tfw too paranoid to pirate on PC so I can only pirate on consoles

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I feel you OP, something could be a virus and anti-virus won’t pick it up because obviously viruses are better than that.

I thought we were talking about discussing it, not actually pirating by sharing locations

>specific websites
Some of them are quite funny, since back in the day they had references to stuff like "a certain paradise" and "buccaneer cove".
Depends on the subreddit though. One I remember has a link to a Google drive with 1000s of rooms for about 16 systems.

My 8 year old cousin from living in the rural area of a third world country who can barely speak english knows how to pirate video games.

How fucking stupid are you?

>They don't even let you talk about specific websites or providers
they have a piracy board or whatever reddit calls them specifically for that. They even have a megathread with names of public/private trackers and DDL sites.
you might just be a retard bro

>the only accessible place on the internet that openly discusses piracy is Yea Forums
>specific websites or providers
this type of information is easily found with a simple google search, even on places like youtube, also /t/ exists.
>and 90% of people here are secretclubfags?
most anons would spoon feed you if you asked nicely, just don't expect a private tracker invitation.

My problem with piracy is, how in the hell can you do it "safely" when you can't tell if there's any hidden viruses or spyware, antiviruses don't catch viruses AND have false positives, and everything very suspiciously wants you to turn off your antivirus? For all I know I could have installed a keylogger with whatever game I pirated and never know it.

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But does he know how to do it safely?

big deal they still give you all the information you need to find where to go to get what you're looking for.

>how in the hell can you do it "safely" when you can't tell if there's any hidden viruses or spyware
if you don't have the knowledge or someone to guide you thru and is too lazy to learn it's literally intuition and trial and error

>trial and error with excruciating dangerous material
What the fuck?

that's how i learned as a kid.

And that’s why you bricked so many things.

>this type of information is easily found with a simple google search, even on places like youtube,
That type of information is completely untrustworthy, sure i've heard of fitgirl or igg-games because everyone mentions them but i've also heard about how they're not safe.
>also /t/ exists.
How am I supposed to know if what i'm torrenting is safe even if multiple anons vouch for it? How can they know it's safe and doesn't have anything bad hidden inside of it?

>if you don't have the knowledge or someone to guide you thru
Of course I don't because no one wants to.
>and is too lazy to learn
I'm not too lazy to learn, i'm too cautious to learn. There's no way that I know of to make sure what i'm doing is 100% safe, so that's why I don't pirate, but I wish I could.

This.

this isn't the fucking limewire/kazaa era bro

>hop on TPB
>only grab links from the accounts with the little green or purple skull and crossbones
>avoid anything that looks obviously fake like filesize not in the right ballpark or crazy seeder counts
Pretty easy my dude.

and it's how i learned to repair them as well.

Try trusted uploaders dummy

>unironically still using TPB in 2019

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But the ones with little green or purple skull and crossbones are the ones with crazy seeder count. Besides what if they faked their way up there?

>TOR
>2019

How can you prove to me that those "verified" people are safe, though?

And who are these "trusted uploaders"? How can you expect a layman to find these so called trusted uploaders without any outside help, and how can you verify that they're trusted? I hear "fitgirl" is trusted all the time, but I also hear they put DRM dll files in some folder, can't remember which one.

>installing an .exe from TPB

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Start small with old emulators and roms.
Ya gotta loin da basics foist, kid.

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>hahaha I know all about piracy, you're all so retarded for not being able to do that. What's that, where to pirate? The Pirate Bay of course.

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Their seeder counts are not crazy. TPB is pretty good with filtering out fake torrents so you don't see them very often, but on something that just released and has no legitimate cracks or leaks yet, you'll find huge spoofed seed & leech counts on entries at the top.

>How can you expect a layman to find these so called trusted uploaders without any outside help, and how can you verify that they're trusted?
Same way all of us do? Just browse the website, it's not hard to figure out. There is no secret. Use your damn brain.

>install
>an .exe

based retard zoomer

>How am I supposed to know if what i'm torrenting is safe even if multiple anons vouch for it? How can they know it's safe and doesn't have anything bad hidden inside of it?
unless you actually learn something about security, you can't know, just do what everybody does, anti-virus and intuition.
>There's no way that I know of to make sure what i'm doing is 100% safe, so that's why I don't pirate,
the worst that can happen is your pc going to shit and you have to re-install everything, just keep regular backups if you're so paranoid.

the way i pirate is equivalent to a guy that goes around fucking prostitutes raw and i haven't had a problem in many years dispite goverment spyware, but then again if i cared about glownigger spyware i wouldn't use windows.

When you click an exe it asks to install.
The fuck are you on about?

How useful would the security bundle on humble help with learning?

Who has the best installers lately?

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>Search _____ game + skidrow/codex/CPY/plaza
>Download either by torrent or Gdrive
>Unpack files
>Install
>Copy crack folder to installation folder
Wow so hard you miserable faggot

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>they don't understand russian

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I hope no one in this thread is unironically pirating from a site that start with "ig"

>anti-virus and intuition.
How can an anti-virus be helpful if they rarely detect actual viruses?
>the worst that can happen is your pc going to shit and you have to re-install everything, just keep regular backups if you're so paranoid.
Yes, that is the worst thing that can happen, and I don't have the money for big enough backups, I need to spend it on things that actually help me live.

>and get a virus

a lot probably.

just apply for a private tracker then.

>that guy that actually gets scared by the virus propaganda

for gog you can check the digital signature to see if it's been tampered with and for codex releases you can check the CRC.

>very suspiciously wants you to turn off your antivirus?
just don't turn off your antivirus lol
that's how i got a miner script in my computer

you can sail the high seas without turning off your anti-virus

It’s legit and worth paying $60 to not deal with it.

>and get a virus
Nigga I don't even use an antivirus and I got tons of pirated games. There's literally nothing to worry about.
You're not one of those idiots that keep important and personal files in their gayman computer, are you user?

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it happens that there's a legit reason behind it, the methods to avoid certain intrusive DRM end up being seen as malware by "some" antivirus. Depends on which ones, some are really paranoid.

Private trackers are far, far too much of a hassle to get into, though.

I don't have a single personal thing on my computer, I just want it to work well and not run like a piece of shit, or get any accounts hacked from a keylogger.

>keep important and personal files in their gayman computer, are you user
i'm glad i'm part of the NEET master race, the only thing i keep in my pc besides vidya is movies, anime, anime porn and /pol/itical books in PDFs

how

by adding up those $60 you could even build a second "separate" computer to safely game on and STILL save money

>pirate game once
>ISP tells me to cut that shit out
Are VPNs legit or just a meme?

>or get any accounts hacked from a keylogger
Oh my fucking god you're a paranoid stupid rimlicker.

I keep my important shit on drives formatted to HFS+ because I use a hackintosh for work. Not even recognized by Windows so even if I get some shit while downloading games no one can even see my other drives.

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if don't want to bother just use direct downloads, it's not hard to pirate without torrents nowadays

How is that paranoid? It’s really serious of an issue.

just tell your ISP to fuck off and keep torrenting you fucking pussy

Nigger you can't even torrent a fucking game, what the fuck do you know about it?

>Being American and/or canadian/yuropean/aussie
literally lmaoing my ass off @ ur lyf

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Just search how to download steam crack

How is wanting to be safe being paranoid? I want to pirate things, but there's absolutely no guarantee any of it is safe. If you're pirating a game you're literally using an .exe file which can be used to fuck your computer up in a large variety of ways. But no, i'm just paranoid.

>fitgirl repack

why is "she" shilled so hard, especially on reddit?

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>you're literally using an .exe file which can be used to fuck your computer up in a large variety of ways
Yes, and? You just said you don't keep anything important in your game computer you stupid faggot. If something dun goofed then reinstall your OS and problem solved.

Depends what third world country. Third world country doesn’t necessarily mean third world living for everyone there.

There's literally guides online everywhere.
If you have an issue there's almost always someone in a forum asking for help with a solution.
There are so many idiot proof guides these days you don't even have to think.
Just follow the guide.

>tfw you pirate on linux anyway, either with Wine or (if really must) on a VM+GPU passthrough and a win10 image you can replace in a single copy command (heck, I trash the entire OS when I'm done playing a game to cleanup)
Sure, Wine isn't safe, but virus aren't designed to escape wine in 99.9% of cases. Especially without a Z:\ drive. And even if it did, likely only my current user would be affected.

There’s also fake guides and websites to lure you into getting caught, the exact opposite of what you intended.

And then i'd have to spend forever building up all the collections of images I have, and various obscure programs. No thanks, faggot.

If you're that retarded to fall for it you shouldn't be pirating in the first place.

>(if really must) on a VM+GPU passthrough and a win10 image
sure buddy

Do you really think thousands of people would download this shit if it really was as big of an issue as you think? Use logic user, you're 1000% paranoid.

not sure what you're trying to imply here

>getting caught

Where the fuck do you live? Use a VPN if you're that paranoid

post pics bro

>He doesn't keep an external hard drive with installers for all the programs he uses for quick boot drive wipes and OS reinstalls
Holy FUCK, how tech illiterate can one be?
This is either some top quality b8 or you're the single stupidest poster on this entire website.

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How is it possible to be so retarded that you don't know how to use a computer?

Yes? People are dumb as fuck. They would gladly download a virus for a free game and not care about anything being stolen. I want to be better than that.

pics of what, given it's a gpu passthrough it's not running in a window (it's using its own video card for near-native performance), you'd just get a screenshot of windows 10

>implying i have an external harddrive or the money to get one big enough for my needs

bet you still have enough money to buy video games though

>He can't spend $100 on a 4TB HDD
>But spends $60 on each game because "he's willing to pay to avoid the hassle of pirating"
This thread gives me the kind of anxiety that makes you want to claw your own eyes out.

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Why would I be interested in pirating, then?

>go on piratebay.org
>download whatever I want
>never get viruses
>never get miners
>computer is clean after 4 years of pirating every AAA game on release

Some people are just born lucky I guess.

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Hot

Or so you think you are. How can you know without ever checking?

>Pirate game
>Friend steam message pops up ingame
>Push shift tab and the steam overlay comes up
>Now have game time on it

Freaked me out, but nothing's come of it.

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so no proof huh?

I'm a burger using fucking Comcast and I've never received any letter.

I use malwarebytes every few months and I've never found anything.

>Norton didn't find anything, so I'm virus-free
Enjoy your miner/keylogger

For what it's worth, you could have something silent that's just logging everything you type (most notably password, credit card, etc... fields). Perhaps not constantly leaving an open connection too and just sneakily uploading it now and then.

If it's something common an anti-virus would pick it up but those are really not as reliable as people think. If it doesn't know about it, then it's just another normal application.

>Using an antivirus to begin with

Surely there’s a better way than manually checking every single file by hand to determine if it’s clean.

...

How common is this? Whats the point of antivirus if it can't detect these?

A false sense of security to make money and why this thread exists.

It's not 100% impossible to modify files and reach the same CRC/md5. That's why those more serious about it us stupidly long signatures that are a lot harder to play with.

But generally I'd say with GOG it's pretty safe.

..crc is really more to make sure your file isn't corrupted rather than not tempered with

>tfw have to share a board with these barely functioning brainlets retards
feelsbadman

>It's not 100% impossible to modify files and reach the same CRC/md5
yeah get back to me when that has ever happened with a PC game

This is why consoles are better. Can’t ruin what you can’t touch.

CRC is such a joke that anime groups make their release have a specific CRC at times just for fun

This is how companies win. Discussion is shutdown and the legal process streamlined until nobody knows how to do it anymore.

Not before Windows 8 /10

you seem to be illiterate my friend

don't worry you will soon be able to buy used games for 5 bucks

>tfw don’t risk it for so long that there are multiple sales for the game and can now get it at a better price

I'm telling you that it's easy as fuck and literally anyone could do it for PC releases if they want to.

I don't know why you even want an example, even if it never happened before (I'm sure it DID happen) the next game you get could happen to do it.

Sorry that I don't actually go out of my way to download viruses and check the CRC of the release.

>pirate gog installers
I thought the website went offline. Who's hosting now?

so no proof? then shut the fuck up retard

GOG files still get distributed everywhere, one site going down won't stop that. GOD was great for getting timely update and the whole system being mostly automated though. Motivated users still post updates pretty quick on those T forums though.

also there's still an archive for that site, although it doesn't get updated anymore and a not many links still work

At this point you might as well say that viruses don't exist. I mean if you never got one, they're probably not real. Godspeed user.

>At this point you might as well say that viruses don't exist.
they only exist for retards, i.e. you.

how do you refund pirated games through steam?

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>I just get viruses and files I don't know what to do with
What a user said earlier, start with emulation and roms before anything else you can download tampermonkey and the script from reddit for the emuparadise workaround download script, or download from THE-EYE

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just remember one thing, don't use zsnes because roms ran in zsnes can actually run abitrary code and install viruses

other shitty emulators may have similar issues, but I doubt you'll find yourself using those given it's all forgotten crap

I've gotten over 10 letters in my current house. Those fags don't care, sending the letter is their only legal obligation and I pay them more than copyright niggers.

It's a good way to get hated by your ISP. They actually have to pay people to go through those requests and then send them. Normally that's why they ignore them, but some countries/states force them to process them

Not a huge deal, but could find them to be non-supportive the next time you have a problem

i’m scared of viruses and malware and shit. i pirated a lot on my old rig and it literally bricked my operating system.

i want to learn, tell me how please

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is windows anti virus good?

zoom zoom

anti-virus in general is more like placebo, the things is protects you from is the most normalfag shit there is that's being spammed everywhere, and not the obscure handcrafted stuff you may get from that one piracy site

I don't think I've ever gotten a virus from a pirated video game. Even gave up on real time virus protection after only ever getting false positives. Don't know how other people manage to get infected.

okay i zoomed in, now what?

..ultimately it only comes down to trust, scene does have its share of reputed groups, users, and distributors

if you want to be paranoid and trust nobody, then forget it, or stick only to things you can truly verify (e.g. GOG releases), or.. well guess there's virtual machines / 2nd PC too

i miss when you stupid faggots would get banned for being this stupid

I am a boomer. I stopped pirating around 2007, when I was left without my own computer for almost a decade due to stupid ass life events.
Now I'm still stuck thinking of pirating as utorrent + piratebay. I don't know where all the cool kids go to get games and software now. I know about private trackers, but those are just a little too autistic for me, having to jump through hoops to appease a bunch of losers I mean.

you're a boomer and still don't understand how to use google? that's just sad.

I just sell nudes of my drunk friends to old perverts. They pay me with G2A steam gift cards.