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It feels so futuristic (startrek.website)
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[–] [email protected] 10 points 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago) (1 children)

It's a bit of a rabbit hole, but Rockstar was caught recently selling a cracked version of their game on steam.

A lot of the time the person / group doing the cracking leave a digital signature. Here's a hacker news link to the original Twitter thread that caused a bit of fuss recently:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37394665

[–] [email protected] 2 points 11 months ago (1 children)

Jesus Christ that’s embarrassing. And it’s not even one of the companies commonly labeled as “lazy” like EA or Ubisoft.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 11 months ago

Rockstar is well known for dodgy PC ports, though.