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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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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 · 2 days ago

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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This implies fitgirl is doing it properly. Which it’s trade off faster download longer install times or vice versa.
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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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