Pirky

It doesn't, but with these apps, you can see what information they send back to their servers (if any). If there is no info getting sent back to any servers, then there's nothing a subpoena can do since there's no info to subpoena. You can't obtain info that just isn't there.

Sure, but it's a start. It's certainly better than trying to keep them on my laptop. And I do hope to add more forms of data backup/storage as time goes on. It's taken several hours ripping all those games and I'd hate to lose them all.
I also have an external 4 TB SSD that I keep most of the games on (excluding the PS4 games because they simply take up too much space).

That's what I've been doing. Been collecting various PS1-4 games on top of GameCube, Wii, and Switch games over the past year to rip and save digital copies for myself. Then I play them on emulators.
I have roughly a few hundred so far and plan to expand it further.
I have a NAS with two 8 TB drives in RAID to back them up and it's already over 50% full. I want to start collecting OG Xbox and 360 games in the near future, but I need to get jailbroken consoles for them.

I've been repeatedly disappointed with most modern games, so I've taken to emulating my old games and playing them on my laptop. It's honestly a pretty good time, would recommend.
I'm getting to play games I loved that I haven't touched in over a decade (MotorStorm, all the Ratchet and Clank games, the good Need for Speeds, etc). Plus if there were any games I wanted as a kid but didn't have the money, I can buy most of them off eBay for cheap.

I loved the first two back in high school and college. I'm glad they're both playable on RPCS3 so I can still get my fix from them.
Really wish we could get some kind of spiritual successor to them; if anyone knows of a modern replacement, I'm all ears.

At the same time, those who stayed were probably not as skilled and thus weren't able to find other employment. So the company's overall quality is going to diminish.

Been replaying the R&C games lately. I'm gonna see how much better Deadlocked performs with this big update.

Edit: Deadlocked still has some big slowdowns, but outside of that, it's perfectly playable; I finished a playthrough earlier today. I know the other 3 main games work well, too. I just need to try Secret Agent Clank and Size Matters.

I feel this would fit better under either Bone Hurting Juice or Speed of Lobsters. Idk if we have any communities like that here yet.

It was still allowed in certain forms if I recall correctly. It's only really dangerous when it's an airbirne particulate. So if you used it in a way that didn't turn it into dust, then it was considered "safe" to use.
Interestingly enough, carbon fiber has the exact same dangers since it's molecular shape is nearly identical to asbestos. So don't breathe that in, either.

Even then, this is still a solid 30-40% increase in downloads. That's statistically significant right there.

I see a k following the numbers, so I'm assuming that's total number of downloads.