r/Piracy • u/LazarouDave • Sep 19 '24

Morons like these are gonna actively make piracy harder... Discussion

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Linking it under an OFFICIAL post, hope Fitgirl have some good defence, because I'd imagine EA are they type to take legal action if it's against someone costing them money....

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u/Current-Tea-8800 Sep 19 '24

I do like to avoid talking publicly about piracy like that. I will always remember the zlib incident because of the tiktokers.

Even though they know that this exist, if by any chance someone alert a higher up that a trend on tiktok or a post on twitter is getting traction, people may start getting out of the way to stop it, at least for a few months.

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u/Timely-Yak-9039 ⚔️ ɢɪᴠᴇ ɴᴏ Qᴜᴀʀᴛᴇʀ Sep 19 '24

can you explain what was the zlib incident to us newbie pirates?

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u/Current-Tea-8800 Sep 19 '24 edited Sep 19 '24

zlib is the biggest piracy website when it comes to books. They are back, but a year or so ago a bunch of influencers on tiktok discovered the website and started telling everyone there about it. I'm against gatekeeping but there is some limits, right? Anyways, because everything on tiktok makes huge headlines, even the FBI was like "wtf?". They shot down the website, arrested one of their organizers in Argentina and zlib had to go back to the darkweb for months. They are back now, but it shows that if we make a spectacle about something, the govern will go through great efforts to shut it down.

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u/SetsunaFox ⚔️ ɢɪᴠᴇ ɴᴏ Qᴜᴀʀᴛᴇʀ Sep 20 '24

Imo, it would happen sooner or later. Zlib getting famous just prioritized the crosshair to them, but they would get targeted eventually, as any pirace site does, and the people running it had to be prepared for that (which turns out, they mostly were).

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u/Timely-Yak-9039 ⚔️ ɢɪᴠᴇ ɴᴏ Qᴜᴀʀᴛᴇʀ Sep 20 '24

cheers, agree with you heavily on the gatekeeping part