How pirates hook gamers

[harlan4096]

Brandon wanted to play a computer game without paying. No fool, he knows where to download games free (without SMS or registration). The Internet is teeming with sites with headings such as “Download pirated games free without viruses.”

Of course, game developers aren’t fools either, and they’ve come up with plenty of methods to fight piracy. But for every cunning developer, there’s sure to be a kindly hacker who can somehow get around the tricks of the trade, upload a crack, and share it online so that others can play free.

In this case, Brandon even knew the name of the crack needed for the game he wanted to play, so he went straight to googling the names of the game and the crack. Google didn’t disappoint. Among the numerous search results, however, Brandon didn’t see a single familiar site offering pirated games and cracks. No matter — he just wanted to get playing.

All sorts of websites with discussion forums — Google Groups, Zendesk, Yahoo! Answers, and others — come in handy in cases like this one, and Google tends to show them above the search results because they are likely to answer user queries. Sure enough, someone was interested in getting this crack before Brandon was, and an obliging user had given a link to a pirate site that had the game and the crack.

Brandon mentally thanked the user and went to the site. Sure enough, he found a link to download the game and a crack for it. He downloaded everything, installed the game from the downloaded image, and ran the crack as directed in the instructions.

Full reading: https://www.kaspersky.com/blog/how-pirat...ers/25634/