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arc, w ATTENTION: 1337X IS NO LONGER SAFE [Reposted from Reddit]

I wouldn’t trust anything from a P2P site that purports to be:

  1. A cracked game / application for desktop and mobile platforms. Maybe it’s legit but assume it is malware.
  2. A serial number generator. If you absolutely must run one of these do it from a throwaway VM, or via WINE emulation to mitigate what it might do.
  3. An encrypted archive with a README. It’s a scam designed to make people sign up to other scams to release a non-existent password.
  4. A movie / audio with an extension such as .scr, .wma, .com, .exe etc. It’s malware.

Movies, audio & books are generally safe providing they use a recognized extension - mp3, mp4, pdf, mkv, aac, flac, epub etc. Stuff that runs under emulation like console games is generally safe. I say “generally” because an exploit could still be crafted to escape a popular media player or emulator and cause actual harm to your computer.

All the ads and 3rd party scripts should be considered malicious too and should be erased with an adblocker, or even better use Tor.

So basically use some common sense and if you really want some game or app, just buy the damned thing or wait for it to go on sale.

halva,
@halva@lemmy.blahaj.zone avatar

wine is a windows api implementation, it’s specifically NOT an emulator

arc,

Read their own FAQ. It’s not an emulator in the classic sense of emulating the OS. It is however emulating the API of Windows. I quoted the pertinent line of the FAQ elsewhere and made my point clearer

arc,

Not sure what the thumbs down is about. It’s right there in their own FAQ.

In fact it ends by saying - “Wine is not just an emulator” is more accurate.

nevalem,

There is a storied history in computing to use tongue in cheek self referential acronyms to denote some humor and finality in distinguishing things that purposely fill a niche in the world of competing, often pricey, commercial software and other hackable reasons.

So I bet you’re rubbing wrong those of us who remember that gnu is not unix, and more specifically wine is not an emulator. Because they really aren’t.

notepass, w Keep Seeding

Now if only torrenting wouldn’t mean an automatic 500€ invoice from a very specific law firm in my country :(

narp,

Alle meine Zuhausis hassen Waldorf Frommer!

Contend6248,

For about 5€ a month you can free yourself from these risks

aldalire, w Keep Seeding

A true pirate shares their booty 🔥🔥

Squirrel,
@Squirrel@thelemmy.club avatar

sigh I’ll let my wife know…

whyNotSquirrel,
@whyNotSquirrel@sh.itjust.works avatar

why squirrel though?

Squirrel,
@Squirrel@thelemmy.club avatar

Why not squirrel?

whyNotSquirrel,
@whyNotSquirrel@sh.itjust.works avatar

Yes?

Durotar, w How is it fine for pirates to pay for a VPN to not pay for a service?
@Durotar@lemmy.ml avatar

You’re paying for your privacy. Also, a copy of a game or a movie is not a service.

Aatube,
@Aatube@kbin.social avatar

should not be a service*

SaltySalamander, w Does the idea of this concern anyone else? Why is no one talking about it?
@SaltySalamander@kbin.social avatar

Why is no one talking about it?

Because this is fake.

db0, w ATTENTION: 1337X IS NO LONGER SAFE [Reposted from Reddit]
@db0@lemmy.dbzer0.com avatar

Response from the admins

https://i.imgur.com/ij4CXIm.png

From where I’m sitting it looks like classic overconfidence. I would say keep your eyes open in the future but don’t pick up the pitchforks just yet.

FeelzGoodMan420,

Thanks. This community needed your logical input. I’ve been following this over the past few days and it seems like a blatent Reddit-type pitchfork situation. Based on the mods response and the absolute lack of proof surrounding the mods profiting from the crypto miner (honestly who the actual fuck even came up with this?), I think we need to all take a beat.

Also I don’t follow cracked games but this Emperess person seems like a fucking psychopath and the fact that literally anyone here believes a word she says is absolutely astonishing.

I am asking this community to PLEASE STOP REPOSTING THIS. Don’t let this community follow the ways of Reddit, please. We are better than that.

yote_zip, w game cracks on lutris?
@yote_zip@pawb.social avatar

Most game cracks work just fine through WINE. You just need to get the game extracted into the WINE prefix and have the crack applied, then point Lutris at it and it will work fine. If you find a specific crack isn’t working, you can probably find another that does, or crack it yourself using simple tools that are always Linux-compatible. I wrote a guide on using these tools for reference.

DonnieDarkmode, w ATTENTION: 1337X IS NO LONGER SAFE [Reposted from Reddit]

I’ll translate: “I find actions of the 1337x admins disappointing. Deleting my torrents causes confusion for the user base, and these actions reflect poorly on your character, suggesting pusillanimity and insufficient discretion when selecting a sexual partner.”

magnetosphere, w ATTENTION: 1337X IS NO LONGER SAFE [Reposted from Reddit]
@magnetosphere@kbin.social avatar

I don’t know why, but I think calling people “pathetic cowardly whores” in this specific situation is hilarious.

What, exactly, does one have to do when moderating a torrent site to earn the title of “whore”?

Navarian, w ATTENTION: 1337X IS NO LONGER SAFE [Reposted from Reddit]

You know it’s bad when the almost constantly unhinged ‘Empress’ is the one speaking sense.

Sharkwellington,
jsnc, w Playing pirated video games on Linux

Bottles as flatpak is an amazing way to run windows dependent software isolated from your main system. Flatpak will automatically bundle Wine and 32 bit library runtimes and bottles packages in DXVK (no need to enable multilib). If you use ProtonUPQT you can even get the bleeding edge GE wine as a runner for your programs in bottles.

I pirate because Steam is a garbage program for playing games and Valve is an evil company. So I pay for games in Steam but will just pirate a Non DRM-Non steam affiliated copy of the game to backup on my own local storage.

Madiator2011, w Anyone who downloaded the GOG Baldur's Gate 3 release from 1337x, scan with Malwarebytes asap!

Dont be mad at me but I bought the game from GOG :)

skullgiver, w Internet Archive copyright
@skullgiver@popplesburger.hilciferous.nl avatar

They will once they receive a DMCA takedown. Don’t become part of the problem.

This shit is why copyright companies are trying to ruin the Internet Archive. Just upload torrents or use mega.

bblfrnz, w CS.RIN.RU's Gdrive links are down and no longer accessible. Is it just limited to that site or did google do something and screw GDrive for Piracy ?

Just look at the Rui’s signature on the forum since most of uploads were his:

Well, it had to happen eventually. All the google drive uploads from my account are now inaccessible, due to me refusing to pay 10x more for unlimited storage, and consequently Google forcing authorization request for each and everyone of the links. It was great while it lasted. I’ll leave the google drive bypass method here nonetheless, who knows, might be useful one day.

AndrewZen, w Internet Archive copyright

There are better file hosts out there than archive.org

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