Rockstar is selling cracked game copies on Steam

Re:Rockstar is selling cracked game copies on Steam by timmb on Tuesday September 05, 2023 @01:57PM (#37395391)

That was the scariest term they could come up with? The romantic swashbuckling seafarer, antagonising empires and declaring his own rules? Surely they could have done better.

'software fraud', 'software theft', 'forgery'... hmm well there's a reason I don't work in marketing obviously.

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Re:Rockstar is selling cracked game copies on Steam by mrguyorama on Tuesday September 05, 2023 @03:33PM (#37396628)

They did those as well, and they also paid for extensive marketing material to make it seem like buying a cracked game was directly contributing to a mafia that was planning on killing your granny.

Do you not remember the ads? The "you wouldn't steal a car"?

Piracy is just what they were able to get. Should have hired the bank's PR managers, who turned "failing to do due diligence on a customer's identity" into the customer's problem.

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Re:Rockstar is selling cracked game copies on Steam by SOLAR_FIELDS on Tuesday September 05, 2023 @07:54PM (#37399493)

Wasn’t it “You wouldn’t download a car”?

Which ended up being quite funny, because I very much would download a car

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Re:Rockstar is selling cracked game copies on Steam by dron57 on Tuesday September 05, 2023 @08:08PM (#37399605)

It was "you wouldn't steal a car". People on the internet rightly corrected it to "download".

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Re:Rockstar is selling cracked game copies on Steam by retrac on Tuesday September 05, 2023 @10:09PM (#37400609)

Real piracy happens today. Men with machine guns in speedboats. It's not very romantic.

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