Rom's Rants: [Piracy] Search Queries

Thursday, August 17, 2006

[Piracy] Search Queries

Just for the hell of it, lets take a look at the piracy-related search queries that have hit my site for the last 24 hours, shell we?

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Okay, starting out with a title that's been out of print for 23 years...

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...and moving to a title I had nothing to do with.

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...People looking for my article, or for pirated software blogs. Not sure which.

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...No idea how in the Hell this one got to me, but as far as I can tell, it's a hacking tool that people are using in relation to Battle.net.

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...I'd laugh at the idiocy of this person if I had the strength. The first game was atrocious. Looks like this one was just as bad.

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...Or you could just buy it from NewEgg.com.

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steam piracy

...No, won't help you hack our distribution network, sorry.

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...Glad to know that pirates aren't just limited to games.

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...Sorry, man, you'll have to contact Valve for that one.

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...And now we're into console piracy. Joy.

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...It's been two years since I played this game, but you'd be amazed how many people come here looking for the pirated copy. I get about 300 queries related to this per month. It's sickening. Of course, if they're that desperate to get it online...

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...People seem to love looking for workarounds and cracks.

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provision warez

...Well, since they've stopped contacting me directly asking for tech support, I guess they've had to go underground looking for support. Hey, assholes...the game is only $15. Just buy the fucking thing.

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sin episodes filesystem_steam.dll problem
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sin episodes patch pirated
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sin episodes radek submarine
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sin episodes warez
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...Funny, I wonder what bugs were fixed in the first patch that are getting people are so anxious to get fixed?

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...And as you can see, we can't even trust most developers to actually purchase the tools that they use. Whee. If you're desperate enough to use SourceSafe, man, look at Subversion.

Yeah, it's discouraging to look at what people search for sometimes. At least nobody has come here looking for a way to kill his wife yet.

posted by Michael Russell at 8/17/2006 05:36:00 PM