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Spotify Has A Pirated Software Problem(www.404media.co)

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Autonomous User@lemmy.world
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Wrong, copying is a solution.

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Alabaster_Mango@lemmy.ca
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Lol, I love the inclusion of cheat codes like they’re as big of a concern as malware. Won’t someone think of the children?! I found my son playing GTA5 with bighead mode on *sobs uncontrollably*.

This whole thing sounds like the “drugs in Halloween candy” scare, but this seems to actually be real. Neat.

P.S. I don’t know if GTA5 actually has bighead mode.

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Venator@lemmy.nz
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They probably mean cheat trainers, as opposed to chat codes(extra software that alters the games memory while it’s running), which can often include other malware.

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bobs_monkey@lemm.ee
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I definitely remember bighead mode in NFL Blitz 2000 on the OG Playstation

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jonw@links.mayhem.academy
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I dunno. It’s not like the warez and stuff is IN Spotify.

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troed@fedia.io
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… anymore. In the beginning you could even find scene release group names in the album titles.

https://torrentfreak.com/spotifys-beta-used-pirate-mp3-files-some-from-pirate-bay-170509/

h/t @rasmusfleischer@mastodon.nu

(although I do believe I am one of those persons who saw those filenames myself, but I mean … that was a looooooong time ago now)

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MilitantAtheist@lemmy.world
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Yup, I used to be in the scene and I’m a musician, had a bunch of my releases, both ones I couriered and albums I released on Spotify, names of songs with the same misspelling.

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Mandy@sh.itjust.works
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Problem for whom, certainly not for me

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monk@lemmy.unboiled.info
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Shareholders, who else?

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argh_another_username@lemmy.ca
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Wow, is this an iPhone 6?

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noodlejetski@lemm.ee
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7, there’s no headphone jack.

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Bizzle@lemmy.world
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Why not just get a magsafe compatible case for it?

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