Flight Sim Company Embeds Malware to Steal Pirates’ Passwords

Re:Flight Sim Company Embeds Malware to Steal Pirates’ Passw... by H1Supreme on Tuesday February 20, 2018 @08:54AM (#16420284)

That argument is bullshit, frankly. Before the advent of CD-Burners and Napster, you found a way to buy a CD if you really wanted it. Everyone had their own copy of an album. A select few would make cassette tape copies, but you were never satisfied with that.

I've seen numerous people who could absolutely afford games, stealing them. Hacked Xbox's filled with every game imaginable. These people would have bought some of these if they couldn't steal them, without a doubt. Would they have just gave up video games? No way. So, it absolutely displaces sales.

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Re:Flight Sim Company Embeds Malware to Steal Pirates’ Passw... by Brockenstein on Tuesday February 20, 2018 @10:30AM (#16421036)

The reason why your comment is being downvoted is because of your ignorance, because you're trying to float widespread piracy as a recent phenomena and it's not. You just don't know your history.

Before CD-RW lots of games were available on floppy disk, which were simple to copy. And even without a CD-RW you could copy the data off the CD. Perhaps you don't know about no-CD cracks? They were everywhere. There were plenty of ways to pirate CD based games without a CD-RW. It might seem difficult or complicated compared to 2018, but only if you didn't live through those times. At the time that's the way it was, and it was relatively easy.

>Everyone had their own copy of an album. A select few would make cassette tape copies, but you were never satisfied with that.

Forgive me, I never say this, but it's appropriate in this case: LOL

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