Re:Flight Sim Company Embeds Malware to Steal Pirates’ Passw...
by cm2187 on Tuesday February 20, 2018 @07:24AM
(#16419804)
Beyond convenience and honesty, my thinking about pirated software is that in a world where malware and viruses are prevalent, the last thing I would do on earth is to execute some dodgy cracking utility or game from some random torrent website, unless it is in an airtight and up to date VM.
Re:Flight Sim Company Embeds Malware to Steal Pirates’ Passw...
by baud147258 on Tuesday February 20, 2018 @08:01AM
(#16419981)
I've downloaded and played dozen of pirated games, but I've been lucky enough to never have a problem. Or at least I never realized I had malware on my PC :-|
For my part, it was not a lack of money, but rather ease of getting the game (when I was directly given an ISO) or because I don't want to wait for a sale, but the game still seems too expensive. I ended up buying two of them (KotOR on a sale and transistor full-price). But now I have a big enough library and I have less time to play, so it's not as appealing as before (and I also have more to lose on my computer).
Re:Flight Sim Company Embeds Malware to Steal Pirates’ Passw...
by Nullabillity on Wednesday February 21, 2018 @09:07AM
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As opposed to dodgy proprietary games from the original source, which would never, ever, include any malware.
What that means is that those games can have <$15 from me, or nothing. $60 was never on the table. And the games I buy at launch others won't bother with at full price.
The only difference between me and the pirate in your example is that the pirate hypothetically would have bought "some" games at full price if piracy wasn't available, like I do. But that's not an assumption you can naturally make. Some people just don't care about playing games when they're new.
I'm just as inclined to assume that a pirate only buying bargain games would have the same legal consumption without piracy.