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The pirates are back - Anew study from the European Union’s Intellectual Property Office (EUIPO) suggest that online piracy has increased for the first time in years. In fact, piracy rates have bee... (www.pandasecurity.com)
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The pirates are back - Anew study from the European Union’s Intellectual Property Office (EUIPO) suggest that online piracy has increased for the first time in years. In fact, piracy rates have bee...::We analyze a new study where the EUIPO suggests online piracy is on the increase within the European Union.

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[–] WindowsEnjoyer@sh.itjust.works 31 points 1 year ago (3 children)

For me it's a price and convenience if we talk about media streaming.

If we talk about games - I am playing on Linux and Alan Wake 2, which I recently pirated, is selling on Epic Games and this store has no Linux support at all. Steam has, but this game is not on Steam. If it were on Steam I'd have probably bought it.

[–] theangryseal@lemmy.world 12 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

I quit pirating games ages ago primarily because I’ll never play anything if everything is endlessly available to me.

That said, I have a Steam Deck and if I want to play a game that is playable but isn’t available to me. Yarrrrrr.

[–] WindowsEnjoyer@sh.itjust.works 2 points 1 year ago

The older I get, the more I think so too.

[–] Zagorath@aussie.zone 3 points 1 year ago (2 children)

I don't really understand. The devs built a version of their game for Linux, but don't actually provide any legal way of playing the game on Linux?

[–] Astaroth@lemm.ee 3 points 1 year ago

Steam has proton which lets you play Windows games on Linux.

You can use Lutris, Heroic Launcher, Bottles, or just plain WINE as well but for a lot of people the easiest way they know is to just add a non-steam game to steam.

[–] SmoothIsFast@citizensgaming.com 3 points 1 year ago

Probably just using proton

[–] dukatos@lemm.ee 2 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Lutris?

[–] mxcory@lemmy.blahaj.zone 2 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Just wanna throw in heroic games launcher. Epic, GoG, and Amazon.

[–] WindowsEnjoyer@sh.itjust.works 1 points 1 year ago

It's unofficial. Pirated games are also technically unofficial "if you buy a legit version".