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Dodi Repacks, the second most prolific and well-known repacker of pirated games behind FitGirl, has broken the hearts of piracy aficionados worldwide today, as Dodi has just announced in a “Roadmap” update on his website that he’s scaling back his piracy operation so he can… get married and become a lawyer? Saul Goodman, is that you?

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[–] Sixtyforce@sh.itjust.works 14 points 1 day ago

May the wind be at your back DODI, and the sun upon your face.

[–] therealdries@lemmy.dbzer0.com 25 points 1 day ago

Considering that he's literally the world's second-most famous purveyor of ethically-sourced video games, I'd say he will most definitely be needing that law degree at some point in the foreseeable future.

[–] absolutetupperware@lemmy.today 4 points 1 day ago (1 children)

were they one of those "piracy is legal" people? bc i always thought that argument was dumb. it isn't and it's legality is irrelevant anyway because legality has 0 bearing on morality.

[–] OwOarchist@pawb.social 1 points 22 hours ago

Depends on the definition of 'legal'.

Any sensible legal system would consider piracy a civil matter, not a criminal matter. And I'd only call violations of criminal law truly 'illegal'.

[–] RedGreenBlue@lemmy.zip 64 points 1 day ago (1 children)

First day at law school they realised that pirating might not be entirely legal.

[–] DragonTypeWyvern@midwest.social 32 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago) (1 children)

He's really not going to like finding out what happens to people trying to get licensed with active warrants

I've made a huge mistake

[–] gedfromgont@piefed.ca 94 points 2 days ago
[–] upstroke4448@lemmy.dbzer0.com 66 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago) (1 children)

Too bad, as a Linux user their repacks always seemed to work better for me then FitGirls. OTOH I have always hated all the third party link providers used, that were constantly trying to trick users into downloading malware.

Best of luck to them in the future.

[–] Echolynx@lemmy.zip 1 points 1 hour ago

Do you have any guides/tips on working with repacks in Lutris or Wine? I've had some issues with FG as well.

[–] Pyro@programming.dev 58 points 1 day ago (1 children)

The good ol' pirate to lawyer pipeline

[–] Truscape@lemmy.blahaj.zone 44 points 1 day ago

"You don't want a criminal lawyer. You want a 'criminal' lawyer."

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[–] OozingPositron@feddit.cl 11 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago)

He really had a change of priorities when he almost died lmao.

[–] cockmushroom@reddthat.com 8 points 1 day ago

Why would Saul Goodman spebd his time doung something as ethical and unprofitable as supporting piracy?

[–] Vendetta9076@sh.itjust.works 14 points 1 day ago

Man that's fuckin based.

[–] BlackEco@lemmy.blackeco.com 10 points 1 day ago

Feels like it should be on !nottheonion@lemmy.world

[–] tackleberry@thelemmy.club 2 points 1 day ago

What is the rare blood disease?

[–] melroy@kbin.melroy.org 4 points 1 day ago

Owh what?? Noooo

[–] CaptainBasculin@lemmy.dbzer0.com 4 points 1 day ago (1 children)
[–] NigelFrobisher@aussie.zone 3 points 1 day ago

The packers become the gamekeepers, or something like that.