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Rockstar is selling cracked game copies on steam. (lemmy.world)
submitted 1 year ago by alphacyberranger@lemmy.world to c/crackwatch@lemmy.dbzer0.com
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[–] ButtholeSpiders@startrek.website 92 points 1 year ago (2 children)

This reminds me of when Nintendo was caught selling ripped ROM’s from a pirate site in the WiiShop lol.

[–] MIDItheKID@lemmy.world 32 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Also reminds me of the time Microsoft was using a cracked version of SoundForge to make system sounds:

http://www.techpavan.com/2009/05/24/microsoft-deepz0ne-pirated-cracked-sound-forge-windows-xp-audio/

[–] ButtholeSpiders@startrek.website 4 points 1 year ago

Oh, I almost forgot about that one lol.

[–] Mic_Check_One_Two@reddthat.com 5 points 1 year ago (1 children)

IIRC it didn’t end with the wiishop either. Off the top of my head, there was some controversy surrounding the NES/SNES Classic consoles. I think they used emulators that were written by pirates, instead of writing their own?

[–] ButtholeSpiders@startrek.website 4 points 1 year ago

They did, if I remember correctly,