I think if it weren't for illicit download sites then everyone in the world would buy every game at least once.
Thus, piracy costs the economy $100 trillion dollars. Imagine how much richer we'd all be.
this post was submitted on 12 Jul 2025
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pirates are costing the economy ten morbillion trillion dollars smh i support our brave FBI people for injecting seven trillion dollars directly into the pockets of nintendo by doing this. now i can finally pay 120 dollars for the latest mario game in peace without the fear of some peasant getting to play it without deserving it. /s
fitgirl-repacks dot site still loading fine for me.
And cs dot rin, and Nyaa. I don't know how big the sites were that got shut down, but they clearly don't have much ability to go after the big sites or they would have already
thank god
steamrip too
Of course it looks like it's mostly Switch roms. Might as well ask if anyone can recommend a good Switch rom site
https://kotaku.com/switch-2-piracy-nsw2u-roms-fbi-hack-emulator-zelda-1851786034
As always this is a pointless announcement.
“We’ve stomped out 7 of the 800,000,000 websites hosting illegal roms. We will pat ourselves on the back because there is a big number involved and one or two was a “big player” but that vacuum will be filled almost immediately by one of the countless sites left behind. We have wasted millions of your tax dollars to enact the vengeance of nintendo/sony/etc with the illogical nonsense that this is theft when the overwhelming majority of people who pirate media would have never purchased the media otherwise. But this allows us to justify wasting your money by saying we prevented hundreds of millions of dollars of theft.”
Is a more accurate version
For your question: honestly the best source in my opinion is a private torrent tracker (like GGn, but you’d need an invite or to join another site that has openings/interviews and an invite forum which usually is hidden until you’ve been around for awhile and have seeded/downloaded a decent amount)
The much easier faster way is just sites like https://nxbrew.net/ but these get taken down from time to time
we've bing binged out last wahoo 😔
Find a good private BitTorrent tracker
wait what does epstein have to do with this?
FBI just recently announced Epstein totally didn't keep records and videos of people. And they just released video "showing" no one went into his cell to kill him.
It wasn't just modified, it also was missing 62 seconds, and contradicted multiple official reports in multiple key aspects, and did show someone going to his cell block, and showed multiple 'staff' who aren't identified in any report, and the camera angle was such that a person could literally have entered and left his cell without showing up on it.
fwiw they're being dragged in the comments.
Move everything to TOR.
TOR isn't really all that safe either
How so? If you keep everything in network on hidden services you don't really need to worry about timing attacks, right? And as long as the server is keeping their shit secure and up to date and the client isn't running every bit of JavaScript it comes across that covers most of your holes, no?
it only takes time and patience for the feds to track down and infiltrate dark web sites if they want to.. exploits are everywhere and people are bad at opsec
I didn't say it was a silver bullet, but we don't have to make it easy for them either. TOR is about as good as we've got at the moment, yeah? I mean, "they'll hack you eventually because nothing is perfect" isn't really a reason not to do it.
move everything to TOR isn't really a solution either. just saying, if they're gonna pinch you, they're gonna pinch you. most people don't understand how TOR works and that would kinda negate the whole purpose.
if you were gonna go that route you could just tell everyone to grab their roms from usenet, but again most people don't know how that works so what's the point. 100 other websites will take the place of this one and life will move on.
Oh, I'm not talking just the roms. I mean everything. The emulation projects should be hosted on Tor and taking monero for donations. Etc. Apply that shit across the board. We need an alternative structure to their infrastructure where they get to pull the plug on anything that's a threat to their profits, hegemony, or sensibilities. Parallel institutions, if you will.
oh.. yeah, i guess.. but TOR was created by ONI and you can be sure the US government runs most of the exit nodes.. and I wouldn't be the slightest bit surprised if they had the ability to turn up enough machines on the TOR network to do end-to-end connection tracing if there were things of interest
That's the timing attacks I was talking about. Again, you keep everything in network on hidden services. Afaik, the onion routing's layers keep everything moving and untrackable within that space. They would have to directly infiltrate the host they want or have a backdoor that still hasn't been found... After what, 20 years now?
Plus, the more people that do use it, the less possible the timing attacks become on data that does leave the network.
Its probably decently expensive running those nodes, and so why do that, when you can just let someone else do it and then tap into German and French and US ISPs and get all the data anyways.