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theKyesterday at 5:56 PM1 replyview on HN

Don't requirements like online server based verification and advancing crypto make it almost impossible to pirate these games?


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mikepurvisyesterday at 6:14 PM

Yes, for play-online titles for sure, but I think everything up to Xbox 360 / PS3 era has robust emulation and wide distribution of the whole library.

Obviously it's gotten harder over the years, but PS4 and PS5 jailbreaks do exist so that means there's a vector for dumping games that were only ever distributed digitally (at least ones released up to the point where the jailbreaks got patched, as the stores will refused to serve new content until you update your system).

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