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Game Companies List ‘FitGirl-Repacks’ as a Key Piracy Threat (torrentfreak.com)

submitted 1 month ago by furzegulo@lemmy.dbzer0.com to c/piracy@lemmy.dbzer0.com

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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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[–] monstoor@lemmy.dbzer0.com 65 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month 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 25 points 1 month 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 12 points 1 month 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