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The ESA, which represents several major gaming companies, has shared an updated list of notorious piracy threats with the U.S. Government. One of the notable newcomers is FitGirl-Repacks, which has been a dominant player in the game piracy landscape for years. Meanwhile, ESA's report no longer mentions malware, cryptocurrencies, or Scene release groups, which were previously seen as 'growing trends'.

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[–] Chadus_Maximus@lemm.ee 5 points 2 hours ago

...so is this "FitGirl" in the room with us right now?

[–] ColdWater@lemmy.ca 7 points 3 hours ago

LOL nice, I hope they fear in shiver when hearing the name "FitGirl Repack"

[–] gwen@lemmy.dbzer0.com 3 points 4 hours ago (1 children)

good luck finding her lmfaoooooo

[–] OozingPositron@feddit.cl 1 points 3 hours ago

ESA dodging SAMs as we speak.

[–] gargamel@leminal.space 40 points 15 hours ago

I used to have a data cap and I would sometimes download the Fitgirl version of games I had on Steam simply because they were half the size. 22 gigs vs 60 gigs? Yeah, give me that fitgirl zipped version.

[–] andrew_bidlaw@sh.itjust.works 39 points 16 hours ago (1 children)

One FitGirl vs a crowd of menacing DMCA men looks like a Kill Bill retake we deserve.

[–] DarkDarkHouse@lemmy.sdf.org 3 points 4 hours ago

One hopes that Audrey Tatou is available when they produce a film about this

[–] krolden@lemmy.ml 69 points 19 hours ago (1 children)

I can't imagine being the people who pretend companies are hurt by piracy

[–] far_university190@feddit.org 17 points 16 hours ago (1 children)

they are hurt!!!111!!

emotionally because cannot control every aspect of how play their game. if cannot control life of random people using malware, just not fun to make game.

/s

[–] zarkanian@sh.itjust.works 25 points 16 hours ago

Nintendo's argument is that their games are art, and being unable to control how they're presented degrades the art. My eyes rolled across the room the first time I heard that.

[–] Varyk@sh.itjust.works 30 points 17 hours ago (2 children)

"One of the notable newcomers is FitGirl-Repacks"

Fitgirl's been around over a decade.

they'll catch up to fitgirl in another decade or so, by which time there are going to be five new fitgirls. five dozen?

[–] Aatube@kbin.melroy.org 15 points 17 hours ago (1 children)

They mean newcomer to the list. Here's what it says right after your quote: "which has been a dominant player in the game piracy landscape for years"

[–] Varyk@sh.itjust.works 7 points 17 hours ago

oh, got it.

I almost quoted the whole thing because I was like why would they write "newcomer" and "for years" one after the other?

thanks

[–] sunzu2@thebrainbin.org 8 points 17 hours ago

That's the beauty of decentralization... Corpos and the state can't really do jack shit about it.

They don't even try if you noticed corpos are busy making other corpos protect their "property" rights....

Stupid fucking bitches doing "capitalism"

[–] CaptainBasculin@lemmy.ml 20 points 16 hours ago* (last edited 16 hours ago)

From the article, these guys are really clueless about where game cheats get sold, which sucks.

[–] monstoor@lemmy.dbzer0.com 49 points 20 hours ago* (last edited 20 hours ago) (1 children)

The site operator is non-responsive to ESA take-down notices and runs a backup version of the site at dodi-repacks.download.

Well, depending on where the website host is located, they may not need to comply. I wasn't aware of the backup site mentioned above, though; maybe Dodi and FitGirl are one and the same? ;-)

EDIT: Grammar.

[–] li10@feddit.uk 21 points 19 hours ago (1 children)

maybe Dodi and FitGirl are one and the same?

I don’t think so, I specifically use Dodi repacks because they seem to extract better. I find FitGirl repacks can take hours to extract and often crash.

Also, I think they’re talking about dodi-repacks.download being a backup for the main Dodi site, not FitGirl.

[–] Scubus@sh.itjust.works 7 points 14 hours ago

Fitgirls packs take forever because she uses an insane conpression ratio. They will typically download faster as a result. But installation can take much longer as a result of the compression.

Fortunately, there is the uncapped ram mode. It longer limits itself on ram so its able to uncompress qnd install much more quickly in beefier conputers

[–] weirdo_from_space@sh.itjust.works 17 points 18 hours ago

There is a pretty fun metroidvania called The Weird Dream that I only know about because FitGirl repacked it. They don't seem like a threat to me.

[–] fl42v@lemmy.ml 10 points 17 hours ago* (last edited 17 hours ago) (1 children)

Is there a similar list of ~~good stuff~~ [sry, ofc I mean notorious criminals stealing what little money a licensor needs to buy a new yacht] but for music?

[–] Aatube@kbin.melroy.org 10 points 17 hours ago (1 children)
[–] fl42v@lemmy.ml 2 points 15 hours ago

Ooo, pretty, thanks!

[–] P4ulin_Kbana@lemmy.eco.br 2 points 13 hours ago

I like the name "FitGirl"!