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I'm not against pirating, but given how long it's taken to crack some of the stuff I was waiting for, and watching things drop to like $10 from a $60 title after a year or two, now I just perpetually wait 2 years until I buy any game. Pirating movies, music, and other 'consumables'...great. Pirating executable content, no fucking thank you. I learned that lesson as a teenager, and I'm not going to put my computer at risk in that way any longer.
Just too many hoops to jump through to maintain a secure PC when pirating games/applications. Anyone who thought 1337 was "safe" to begin with, is fucking stupid.
Many games, etc detect being launched from within a virtual machine and will refuse to run. I already run Proxmox here at home with plenty of virtual machines for various services like jellyfin. I've unlocked my 3080 to do proper hardware GPU passthrough and partitioning and even normal...non-pirated games will refuse to run in a VM.
I don't remember what program, but I remember coming across some people who didn't feel comfortable giving games like Valorant and Genshin Impact kernel level access so ran it on what they called bare metal or something running it off another drive. Maybe it was Ventoy?
Have wondered if a dedicated drive for just pirated software and games would help keep the main system safer with how cheap ssds have gotten. Maybe a way to run it off an external ssd while blocking off access to other storage that doesn't have pirated content?