Why have I never seen a .biz domain that wasn't blatantly shady?
this post was submitted on 09 Dec 2023
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This is a genuine exception. Surprisingly low bullshit for anything gaming related (i suppose being industry oriented helps a little), and fairly interesting stuff covered. This article is a good one, imo.
Despite the title it's (as should be expected from being with one foot in the industry) not a how to guide to get the latest fitgirl repack or whatever, but an article about who gets targeted for piracy and who doesn't even while massively profiting (Amazon, for one).
It's actually quite a good website I've posted many times. It's just the title and the topic make it look shady. The content really isn't.
Now that that's settled, where to get legally pirated games?
I kind of wonder how pirating a game I have a legal license to would work in court. For example, let's say a studio dropped support for a game's DRM without stripping the DRM first. I still have a legal license to the game, I just can't play it because of a technical limitation.
If I download a version with the DRM stripped, did I break the law? The person who stripped the DRM violated the DMCA, and they didn't have the right to redistribute it, but I have to legal right to have access to it so possession probably isn't illegal. AFAIK, copyright protects the work I bought a license to, and AFAIK, a license doesn't necessarily include the DRM protections (studios can strip that without renegotiating the license).
So I think there's a sufficient gray area where legal piracy could exist. As in, I downloaded content from someone who pirated it illegally, but I have a legal right to the content so my actions were legal.
Technically https://www.myabandonware.com/ should be legal, most games there you can't get anywhere else so even if you wanted to give money to the people who made them you couldn't. E.g. I found that website trying to buy The Sims 1, I used to have the cds a long time ago, but I thought it would be easier to just buy it again from GoG or something, but it's not available to buy anywhere so it's a hard for a company to claim you're harming their sells if they're not selling the product.
Nice try, but you aren't fooling me this time, feds!
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