Deduplication!
Comment on Anon disrupts the gaming industry
odium@programming.dev 2 months ago
The hard part is having enough storage to pirate a game a million times.
sep@lemmy.world 2 months ago
coronach@lemmy.sdf.org 1 month ago
Does it count as a pirated copy if it’s deduped? 🤔
sep@lemmy.world 1 month ago
Just because the datablocks are deduplicated the filenames would be uniqe.
coronach@lemmy.sdf.org 1 month ago
But would that mean that a symlink is also a pirated copy? 😄
hitmyspot@aussie.zone 2 months ago
I just use btrfs duplication so it’s easy and doesn’t waste additional space. Pirates of old used caves near an X, but risk of must. I don’t use X because of musk.
hanrahan@slrpnk.net 2 months ago
Symbolic links! 59,999,999,999 of them
ilikecoffee@lemmy.world 2 months ago
He said 60 million not 60 billion!
amon@lemmy.world 1 month ago
meh, only $59.94 billion off
WhiskyTangoFoxtrot@lemmy.world 1 month ago
Just download a few copies of Little Samson.
papalonian@lemmy.world 2 months ago
Open a million free accounts on some cloud storage website
Thassodar@lemm.ee 2 months ago
Dropbox, Google, Microsoft, AltaVista, Netscape Navigator…
Gullible@sh.itjust.works 2 months ago
Pretty sure the last time this happened, we got North Macedonia
kryptonidas@lemmings.world 2 months ago
Just use cloud storage indeed, they may detect that it was already stored and just store it once but give many people access.
LodeMike@lemmy.today 2 months ago
rclone crypt