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PC Gaming@lemmy.caEnglish · 11 天前

Why FitGirl won't die: The repacker millions of gamers depend on in an age of surveillance

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Why FitGirl won't die: The repacker millions of gamers depend on in an age of surveillance

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PC Gaming@lemmy.caEnglish · 11 天前

Ask almost any PC gamer from Asia to South America, and they will tell you the same thing: FitGirl is the one name in piracy that everyone recognises

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Decompression during install is generally less of a bottleneck than network bandwidth, so fitgirl is doing it properly.

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