About sad news on the Pirate Front ..

Probably everyone has already seen “sad” news for the Flibustier brotherhood. At the beginning of the year, the great and terrible 3DM predicted the end and a complete eclipse for pirate products in 2018. But just the other day, they also said that they are suspended work on hacking games for at least a year without explaining direct reasons. Well, of course, there is a reason and as the faceless said Bird Sister (defined by the public as a 3DM leader) –

However, we will put aside all these “terrible news” and see, who are 3DM and what is known about ordinary Internet users. Alas, agent John Smith responsible for Stopgame.ru, did not want to share confidential information ..

So who are 3DM? Hacker group? This is not a very correct definition, although it is impossible to call it false. It is more correct to call 3DM, and especially their site, a certain hub or center of pirate games. A similar example is a pirate bay or rutrexer, for example, only because of an incredibly large number of Chinese and the audience investigatively, the 3DM website overtakes these well-known sites (although so many boats are swimming in the bay that I will not be 100%). As well as on the sites known to us, any user can place a torrent box here on his hacked copy of the game and distribute to everyone. Previously, most of the hacked content was from other foreign groups (Skidrow, Razor and others). However, Bird Sister In one of the old posts on Weibo (Chinese Twitter) said:

… now nobody can do it, and nonukcasinosites.co.uk/high-roller-casino-bonus/ we do it ourselves … (now no one can do it and we will do it ourselves – of course, hacking)

From this moment (I won’t find the exact date) 3DM from the usual torrent tracker has become something more significant, having gained even greater fame now and beyond the boundaries of the communist homeland. Flags with a cheerful Roger began to develop even more confidently in the wind, and the 3DM website collected profit with even larger bags.

What now? But what ..

In a more complete statement Bird Sister It is said that they not only stop working on hacking, but will also actively fight with the distributions of other pirate games laid out on their website. It is worth noting that now in China 3DM, among other things, is a rather popular and famous gaming media (like SG, but cooler). And from the point of view of communist laws, the site does not violate anything and does not violate, although in China it is even stricter with online censorship. So why did the site owners decide to completely abandon the torrent tracker, which carries golden eggs? The Chinese on the forums associate this with the popularization of our beloved Steam, where, thanks to the regional price policy, games prices are about two times less than in Europe or in the USA. And if earlier the games were expensive and people mostly pirated, now on average the Chinese gamer can afford to buy several games a month. In addition, before buying a licensed game was something out of the ordinary, but now in society it is considered a good tone. Nothing reminds? Yes, it seems to us now the same – it is not shameful to pirate, but it is better to buy a license. And yes, regional restrictions in Steam also contributed to this. But in China, communism and the Internet community were divided into two camps – some for purchases, while others for piracy. All would be nothing, but the release of one game took place, namely, Romance of the Three Kingdoms XIII from Koei Tecmo. A crack appeared quite quickly on the 3DM website and everyone began to rejoice. But, literally a couple of days later, 3DM received Cease-And-Desist Letter (letter of termination and abstinence, the legal term as I understand it) from Koei Tecmo, which demanded to remove all distributions and not upload. In our country, no one would pay attention (t.To. This is a pre -trial letter), but in China it is better not to get to the court, so the guys had to obey and fulfill the conditions. Here, the Pirate camp was not at all happy about what was happening and saw in this a certain bnight and aggression from the camp and on the official government website created a petition to close the Steam service in China. It may be difficult for you to realize everything that is happening, but things are so that in China it is not quite legal to sell games in Steam and distribute copies of pirate games. There is no direct prohibition not there, not there, but there is no permission-for pirate games it is clear why, but for Steam-due to the lack of direct censorship (which is very important for China). That is why Steam may well be prohibited then, in response to the actions of the pirate camp, most likely, already supporters of the license will collect a petition to close the 3DM website. Now it becomes clear why the 3DM decided to temporarily become right-list and so far do not break anything (or simply not to lay out in open access). After all, they lose money in any case: leaving pirate content and closing due to a complaint of the publisher or removing content and closing due to the “war of the two camps”. And so, they reserve a popular site that continues to work as a game media and ceases to exist as a torrent tracker. Well, no one will conduct hacks for other torrent trackers for free, so here ..

P.S. No one denies that 3DM could trump a certain reward from certain publishers with a request to stop hacking, but it looks rather stupid for two reasons. Firstly, there are enough other hacker groups in the world, which also work in this direction. Secondly, it is unlikely that it is known for certain who is behind the hacks in 3DM and how many of them. Faceless Bird Sister and a couple of nicknames, that’s all that can be found, but there can be one person and fifty behind it. And as you understand these fifty people will not sit back and either scatter other teams, or organize a new.

P.S.S. Do not be sad, except for 3DM in the world there are still enough good people ..