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’.

  • monstoor@lemmy.dbzer0.com
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    12 days ago

    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.

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      12 days ago

      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.

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        11 days 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