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136: Team Xecuter

Darknet Diaries

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Microsoft's Anti-Piracy Warfare

In the 90s I didn't do too much piracy. The only piracy I did a little bit was actually on the computer side. By the 2000s with the DMCA starting to show itself more and more in courts PC game makers started adding their own anti copy protections. This attempted to make it impossible for users to make copies of the software They bought. When this started happening at the time the sentiment was we no longer own these games We're just renting them because it's only a matter of time before this disc stops working or it locks you out somehow And you just have to buy a new one. All these anti copying measures hurt the regular consumer and stifles time Technological growth what do

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