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Re:Russia to legalize software piracy by 5e92cb50239222b on Monday March 07, 2022 @06:50AM (#30586662)
Not gonna help, they'll go back to using unofficial translations. There were a lot of those back in the 90s when Western software companies ignored ex-Soviet markets because there wasn't any money to be made there.

I've used a lot of them personally, especially games. Some of those translations were pretty good, and some were so bad they were actually hilarious, and have become a meme (like "wasted → потрачено" in GTA San Andreas)

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Re:Russia to legalize software piracy by satellite2 on Monday March 07, 2022 @07:32AM (#30586983)
The goal of sanctions is generally not to make anything impossible, just to make it painful and/or expensive.
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Re:Russia to legalize software piracy by UnFleshedOne on Monday March 07, 2022 @07:33PM (#30595145)
Well, I've seen hilarious translations in official versions too. RAM translated as "Male sheep" on android system info screen for example.
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Re:Russia to legalize software piracy by baud147258 on Monday March 07, 2022 @09:49AM (#30588429)
> using unofficial translations

I know one indie game whose Russian localization was done and distributed with the pirated version first, before being adopted by the dev and added to the official distribution. (of course since the guy is only doing gamedev as a hobby, his stance regarding piracy of his own games is quite relaxed)

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