Piracy

>>59486865
>Do you get viruses from pirating games even if the distributor is "trusted"?
Yes, because that "trust" ain't worth shit
>How big is the risk?
Zero if you don't take it
>Do any of you do it anyway?
I don't
>What if they don't get detected by malwarebytes and avast? What do you do then?
They don't run on TempleOS, so it's a null question for me

https://www.gnu.org/philosophy/words-to-avoid.en.html#PiracyPiracy”

Publishers often refer to copying they don't approve of as “piracy.” In this way, they imply that it is ethically equivalent to attacking ships on the high seas, kidnapping and murdering the people on them. Based on such propaganda, they have procured laws in most of the world to forbid copying in most (or sometimes all) circumstances. (They are still pressuring to make these prohibitions more complete.)

If you don't believe that copying not approved by the publisher is just like kidnapping and murder, you might prefer not to use the word “piracy” to describe it. Neutral terms such as “unauthorized copying” (or “prohibited copying” for the situation where it is illegal) are available for use instead. Some of us might even prefer to use a positive term such as “sharing information with your neighbor.”

A US judge, presiding over a trial for copyright infringement, recognized that “piracy” and “theft” are smear words.

there is no such thing as a trusted distributor of pirated material

you can never 100% be sure if the software you've downloaded has a virus in it, until its too late that is

viruses in pirated software is a much bigger issue than it used to be, now that bitcoin miners are a thing

>>59486865
Pirate games from a certain DRM-free online distributer that signs their installer executables.

>>59486899
>>59486920
Do bitcoin miners get detected by antiviruses? What if you uninstall the game? Do they stay there?
If I've ever installed pirated games, am I able to undo the damage by reinstalling the OS?

>>59486914
Thanks for the trivia.

>>59486968
Are you referring to private trackers? Those require tons of time and effort to join right?

>>59486865
The problem is Jesus got crucified for piracy
and our sins

>>59486865
Wtf I love Jesus now.

>>59486988
I'm not aware of any autism e-peen scene groups that sign their installers, I'm talking about a commercial distributor.

>not literally downloading the most seeded and most commented torrent

>>59487078
That's the one the government watches.

>>59486969
>Do bitcoin miners get detected by antiviruses?

some do, not all though

>What if you uninstall the game? Do they stay there?

most likely, they want to use your computer to generate money for them, they arent going to be kind enough to let you easily uninstall it

>If I've ever installed pirated games, am I able to undo the damage by reinstalling the OS?

if you DBAN the drive first

>>59486988
GoG

>>59487125
>not living in a third world country and getting zero punish for pirating stuff

I'd buy my stuff if I lived in a country where the government actually watches this kind of stuff. Like, literal first world problems.

>>59487130
Is it okay to back up some files and pictures before DBANing or do you think the virus will also copy over to the backup drive?

>Do you get viruses from pirating games even if the distributor is "trusted"?
Never once happened to me. And I pirate anything I can get my hands on.

>How big is the risk?
Pretty close to zero, apparently.

>What if they don't get detected by malwarebytes and avast? What do you do then?
What if the same happens with legit software? Do you let that stop you? Legit software has a much greater chance of containing malware than pirated stuff.

>>59486865
https://www.sandboxie.com/

>>59486914
Linux Linux Linux Linux

>>59486865
Private trackers, trusted release groups.
Stuff rarely gets though and there is an announcement if it does.

>viruses from pirating games
Are you guys for real? Are you all children?

>>59486865
If it's drm free, the risk is pretty low as long as you can check your copy against someone else's software. If you need to crack the program or run a keygen to use it, the risk is sky high. Executing cracked software is the single easiest way to be infected by bitcoin miners, keyloggers, and actual unironic botnets. Note that antivirus programs are an imperfect protection when they can't prevent you from running software in the first place, and even virus scans have limited utility when benign cracks can also result in false positives.
The only responsible way to execute untrusted software is in a sandbox or virtual machine. They aren't perfect, but anyone trying to spread a bitcoin miner isn't going to bother trying to escape a virtual machine when they have a lowest common denominator of thousands of people willing to execute any random shit they download. Virtualbox is free, there's no excuse.

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>>59490280
1 of the only 2 serious answers here. Most of this thread is by uninformed people/people who have never tried to torrent before. It's pretty fucking safe to do.

>>59490443
Keygens are particularly nasty because JUST BEING A KEYGEN triggers most scanners. So you have to determine if it's a false positive or a real positive.

>>59486865
>Jesus' disciple is a Buddhist monk
>Bread seller is an Egyptian priest

How many levels is this working on

Run your pirated games in sandboxie. Use a whitelist firewall aswell (built-in windows one works just fine).

>>59490280
The only thing that ever spooked me was spotting a winscp binary after I extracted some game files. FIrewall wouldn't have let it through anyway.

>>59486865
lately I'm getting paranoid with how much music I've grabbed over the yeras

One of these days they are going to come knocking for me and idk what I'll do then

>>59486865
Is jew bread any good? Seems to me the leavened is where all the flavor is.

>>59486899
>TempleOS
kek

>>59486865
Underage detected

>>59486920
There is no such thing as a trusted distributor of closed source software. Windows 10 is adware and ESEA put a Bitcoin miner in their anticheat client.

>>59490443
Most games have to be cracked. If you want to play them.

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>>59486865
Piracy is bad and gives you viruses, anon. Never ever pirate, you aren't some poorfag, right?

>>59493227
>hackers full their software with bitcoin miners
>developers sell their software for shekels
>Jews sit on both sides of the software distribution

>>59486865
games are for kids

>>59486865
Trusted pirates are barely any guarantee at all.
I don't pirate games because I'm not an unemployed 16yo anymore and I'm not a nigger.
Depends where you're getting it from.
I use Win7 only for casual gayming and Linux for everything else. Even if I got infected I'd just reinstall windows if I cared enough about it.

>>59486920
actually it is
it is called warez scene and nukenet

What is the point of pirating games anymore?
It made sense back when people played games and you needed to have multiple copies in order to play with people, but multiplayer is almost completely gone now.

>>59493269
>all women are Stacies

>>59487195
If the virus is smart enough. Better safe boot on linux or some shit and copy the files safely

>>59486865
just get steam/gog and buy gaymes like a normal cunt

>>59486865
just public tracker things :)

>>59493737
Your secret club is autistic.

>>59493688
Can't justify spending money on video games.

>>59486920
You can trust big names to some degree because they would not want to ruin their reputation. Bitcoin miners would be easy to detect since they would use a lot of resources.

>>59487130
>DBAN
Files are not magic, just erasing the partition table should be enough.

>>59486865
I use linux with full disk encryption that is backed up 100% as my main OS and have a windows install that I only use for muh gaymes, I don't give a shit about viruses because they can't do jack shit to me.

>>59493492
Trusted """developers""" are no guarantee either. Microsoft refuses to disclose what information Windows 10 collects. It is spyware by any definition.

>>59486865
if you have money to buy that ludicrously expensive hardwarde, you certainly have a few bucks extra for legal software.

Games are literally the cheapest software category there is.

>>59495361
>paying to install closed source malware when you could torrent it and have your malware for free.

>>59487154
This is definitely one of the benefits of living in third world countries. Nobody gives a shit.

>>59493590
of course they are Stacy is a female trait, what you call Stacy however, is a meme unidimensional caricature of Stacy-ism if it were all a person was

>>59486865
There is always the risk, run it in a sandbox if you simply cannot live without call of battlefield 2017 edition.

>>59486865
if it's a nonfree blob with zero documentation to even reproduce the results, you bet your ass it coul very easily be malware.

you can't trust what is fundamentally undocumented and closed off.

also i'm pretty sure the increase in normies getting shit like bitlocker is a direct result of nonfree software piracy.

>>59486969
>do botcoin miner get detected by antiviruses?
Absolutely no, see utorrent>2.2.1

>sandbox meme

people seriously don't believe this right?

does windows even have Mandatory Access Control or cgroup like isolation?

>>59486865
nothing can be trusted, the best viruses dont make themselves known

>>59486969
antivirus is a meme and can't detect anything that hasn't been discovered and well studied.

MUH HEURISTICS rarely ever works against even the most basic meta programming or crypo vm's

>>59486865
Now that I'm an adult with a real job, I pay for all my games

>>59489630
This.