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I know 5 torrent sites I could go to right now and download the cracked versions of every single game I own, though. That would be impossible if the binaries ne

• A4ET8a8uTh0 4y ago
  Not impossible ( as movies have shown ), but definitely a lot harder. Not to mention, cracked games deal with their own issues that make people like me hesitate ( malware and so on ).
  • shkkmo 4y ago
    There are significant fundemental differences between copying a video being streamed and a game being streamed. The former is just capturing the bits sent to the screen and doing some math, the latter is trying to reverse engineer code for an application when all you have access to is the UI. The only practical way to do the latter is to find an exploit in the game that gives you control over the server where the game is running. So pirating streamed games is both significanttly harder, and requires breaking more laws.
    • A4ET8a8uTh0 4y ago
      "So pirating streamed games is both significanttly harder, and requires breaking more laws. " This is not what I intended to mean ( although clearly I left too much to interpretation ). What I thought I was saying was 'Even if there is a perfect digital lock, there is always the human component.' edit: laws part; i misread the comment