Block it and move on with your life?

The list of “Healthy Games” is a great resource to have!

Technically no, but if you want to install apps from the App Store, then yes.

Pretty calm here for a “panic”.

Exactly. If anything, signs like these drag the attention away from the actual issue.

I think it’s mostly supply/demand.

Most people are satisfied with how games are acquired commercially. Steam’s DRM system is usually received well. There are outliers using different launchers (sometimes on top of Steam) or games using Denuvo, but most customers are satisfied with how Steam handles it, and it also adds valuable features like cloud saves (so for example when you have a desktop PC and a Steam Deck resuming where you left off is pretty seamless) and Valve didn’t have any major fuckups yet (not that I remember anyway). It works, it’s convenient and most people can afford it.

Similar thing with music: streaming services work well for the most part and have almost all the music most people would want. They’re pretty affordable and convenient.

With movies and TV shows most people were satisfied when Netflix got rolling as it was pretty much the only streaming service you “needed”. Nowadays more and more services emerge with their own exclusive content and pricing is increased on a regular basis, sometimes multiple times per year. That’s why (from my perspective at least) piracy increases in that sector. It’s no longer affordable and no longer convenient.

As for software, I think most people exclusively use free-to-use software anyway. Software from the Adobe suite still gets pirated a lot, I know no one who paid for Adobe software for personal use.

The difference between H.265 and AV1 at the same bitrate (assuming both files were encoded with a good encoder) usually isn’t huge.

AV1 is great, but the “hype” surrounding it is mostly comparing it to lowish-bitrate H.264 (live) streams.

Was gonna ask, never heard of anyone.

Massgrave works with 8/8.1 just fine, just not with the HWID method afaik.

No honor among thieves. Remember that.

These are some low bitrate movies. Mine is probably at least 10x that size but nowhere close 10x the content.

Being a rapist doesn’t even need a qualifier, you’re a piece of shit regardless.

It’s probably deciding what the best audio is by bitrate (file size) instead of codec.

Probably a cat and mouse game

Hahaha that got me! I legit thought this could’ve been a PR stunt that actually may have happened until I read the last sentence … after which I thought it was even more likely to have happened.

It’s actually 10 years old when taking the original Wii U version of Mario Kart 8 into account.

One might even go as far as saying it’s morally not okay to pay for a Nintendo game because you are in a way financing their lawyers.

Sounds feasible.

True. Might be easier to just drop a bunch of torrents to the website though.

That’s not what this is. You can download a supposedly dead torrent, add more trackers that might have peers available for that torrent to it, and re-add the modified torrent to your client.