Your daily reminder to not trust "Free" games from the interwebs

One thing I noticed, when I stopped visiting those shady websites, I also stopped getting viruses. Maybe there is a connection?
 
Zarathustra[H] said:
I have scanned a bunch of these from supposedly trustworthy sources. (Official releases on IPTorrents.)
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Again, IPTorrents aren't the sources people go to for pirated games. I gave a couple of hints as to where they actually go and they aren't always torrented. Should give you an idea of how far the rabbit hole goes. The article assumes people still go through places like PirateBay.
I don't trust pirated stuff in the slightest, no matter what group claims to have released it. Scan, scan and triple scan, and even then something may get through.
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One of the benefits of using Linux is that none of that stuff really applies to me. If it has a virus then it does and there's nothing it can really do. It runs through Wine and Wine doesn't get root privileges. Wine will refuse to run with root. Modern problems need modern solutions.
 
HAL_404 said:
enters through pirated gaming software ... poetic justice at it's finest. Thieves robbing thieves. See, it really is true after all ... there really is no honor amongst thieves
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but i guess you have no problems when you hear about publisher's charging $70 for a game with day 1 dlc or you can pay $100+ for a "gold" edition? and it ships in a broken state but ends up being sh_t anyway? i mean i get what your saying, but you add in the inflated price of hardware and the pirating's just gonna get worse. i mean i don't have to worry about it because i have such a huge backlog of games bought during steam sales.

if the publishers don't like it they need to start hounding the hardware people to start doing something about the scalpers. how hard is it to do one per household / ip address? there are plenty of sites that won't let you log in with a vpn, why not newegg? maybe some kind of id check?. or how about letting us know when stock is coming in? so someone besides scalpers have the info? just think how salty someone's gonna be when their xbox gets a red ring of death in a year after they paid $1200 for it and have no way to get it warantied? guess that's what they get for supporting scalpers.
Zarathustra[H] said:
I'm not sure I agree,

I have scanned a bunch of these from supposedly trustworthy sources. (Official releases on IPTorrents.)

(As previously mentioned, I buy my games, but sometimes use torrented versions to bypass restrictions and always online account requirements)

I rarely find things identified as outright viruses or malware, but so called "Potentially Unwanted Programs" or "Potentially Unwanted Applications" are fairly commonplace.

Even when I have found outright viruses or malware the piracy community is usually very quick to dismiss it as a false positive with little to no evidence.

I don't trust pirated stuff in the slightest, no matter what group claims to have released it. Scan, scan and triple scan, and even then something may get through.
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most of the pup's are the keygen or hacktools. they're not viruses
 
d3athf1sh said:
but i guess you have no problems when you hear about publisher's charging $70 for a game with day 1 dlc or you can pay $100+ for a "gold" edition? and it ships in a broken state but ends up being sh_t anyway? i mean i get what your saying, but you add in the inflated price of hardware and the pirating's just gonna get worse.
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but i guess you have no problems when you hear about publisher's charging $70 for a game with day 1 dlc or you can pay $100+ for a "gold" edition? and it ships in a broken state but ends up being sh_t anyway?
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That's the going rate; I can't change it. But I can wait till the price drops before I buy. What I think was not right to do was to sell me a Digital copy or Dick copy with one time activation key I can't resell, require me to have to be online in order to access gameplay and advertise the games with fancy eye candy still images and made up videos that are not actual gameplay. Also, they could release a trial download, they used to do that but they stopped that practice a long time ago. Selling a game for $60 and then it winds up having 10 minutes of single player on it well, that was a marking experiment I suppose and apparently that failed. Folks need to wait for gameplay vids to be posted on YouTube before buying if they are concerned about what a new game release's gameplay quality will be.

i mean i get what your saying, but you add in the inflated price of hardware and the pirating's just gonna get worse.
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pirating = stealing and that's a personal choice each of us makes every day. The People, Governments, Military, Corporations ... they all play the game of life called Choices + Chances + Challenges + Changes
 
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