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[–] odium@programming.dev 105 points 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago) (5 children)

The hard part is having enough storage to pirate a $60 game a million times.

[–] papalonian@lemmy.world 65 points 2 days ago (3 children)

Open a million free accounts on some cloud storage website

[–] Thassodar@lemm.ee 21 points 2 days ago

Dropbox, Google, Microsoft, AltaVista, Netscape Navigator...

[–] Gullible@sh.itjust.works 17 points 2 days ago

Pretty sure the last time this happened, we got North Macedonia

[–] kryptonidas@lemmings.world 8 points 2 days ago (1 children)

Just use cloud storage indeed, they may detect that it was already stored and just store it once but give many people access.

[–] LodeMike@lemmy.today 4 points 2 days ago
[–] hitmyspot@aussie.zone 18 points 2 days ago

I just use btrfs duplication so it’s easy and doesn’t waste additional space. Pirates of old used caves near an X, but risk of must. I don’t use X because of musk.

[–] sep@lemmy.world 19 points 2 days ago (1 children)
[–] coronach@lemmy.sdf.org 2 points 2 days ago (1 children)

Does it count as a pirated copy if it's deduped? 🤔

[–] sep@lemmy.world 1 points 2 days ago (1 children)

Just because the datablocks are deduplicated the filenames would be uniqe.

[–] coronach@lemmy.sdf.org 3 points 2 days ago (1 children)

But would that mean that a symlink is also a pirated copy? 😄

[–] sep@lemmy.world 1 points 14 hours ago

Probably yes. ;)

[–] hanrahan@slrpnk.net 11 points 2 days ago (1 children)

Symbolic links! 59,999,999,999 of them

[–] ilikecoffee@lemmy.world 7 points 2 days ago (1 children)

He said 60 million not 60 billion!

[–] amon@lemmy.world 3 points 2 days ago

meh, only $59.94 billion off

Just download a few copies of Little Samson.