There’s a war out there, old friend. A world war. And it’s not about who’s got the most bullets. It’s about who controls the information. What we see and hear, how we work, what we think… It’s all about the information!
It is much much better than posting on forums. You get instant response.
Agreed. Even for channels that aren’t tech-related, if I have a quick question, I typically get a faster, more in-depth response than forums/Reddit/whatever. They may not always be the correct answer, but they usually point me in the right direction. Anyone still hanging around on IRC tends to have good troubleshooting instincts.
Never moved away from IRC even though most everyone else has; been a pirate’s invaluable friend for decades. Plus, y’know, still need it for every private tracker these days.
Denuvo is being hurt bad the bad PR enough to launch a full on propaganda war.
Uh…they’ve been doing this since Dragon Age Inquisition. Hardly anything new, or a sign that they’re “hurting”.
It’s earned its terrible reputation over the last 15 or so years. Dunno how it got so easy to dupe the tracker, but once scammers found out, it was open season. Anything you searched for was not only there, but had hundreds or thousands of seeders…except it didn’t actually. And the content you thought you were downloading wasn’t either. Its “verified uploader” or “trusted uploader” system was only a band-aid on a gushing wound, because it was so flooded with scams that it drowned out any of the actually trustworthy content. By the time I started shifting to private trackers in 2009, I was barely visiting there anymore because I couldn’t trust it.
She turns 20 this September, and I have some very fond memories of those early years, but the name is completely mud to me now. They’d be better served just starting fresh as an exclusively private tracker using much better software and an entirely different name; I doubt anyone who knows their reputation is gonna jump on this.
Man, all this talk makes me miss AirStream. Only worked on Android, but it locally-streamed just about everything out of the box; combined with MX Player, transcoding wasn’t even necessary. But the devs vanished like 7 years ago and stopped updating/supporting the server software, so getting the app to communicate with the host computer was impossible.