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[–] [email protected] 251 points 1 year ago (5 children)

Response from the admins

From where I'm sitting it looks like classic overconfidence. I would say keep your eyes open in the future but don't pick up the pitchforks just yet.

[–] [email protected] 82 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

Thanks. This community needed your logical input. I've been following this over the past few days and it seems like a blatent Reddit-type pitchfork situation. Based on the mods response and the absolute lack of proof surrounding the mods profiting from the crypto miner (honestly who the actual fuck even came up with this?), I think we need to all take a beat.

Also I don't follow cracked games but this Emperess person seems like a fucking psychopath and the fact that literally anyone here believes a word she says is absolutely astonishing.

I am asking this community to PLEASE STOP REPOSTING THIS. Don't let this community follow the ways of Reddit, please. We are better than that.

[–] [email protected] 24 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I agree, this entire thing looks very blown out of proportion to me. It's not the first time and not the last time there will be malware in a brand new game torrent on 1337x.

This exact situation has happened before with a new game torrent that had malware, torrent eventually got taken down, and nobody raised a huge fuss other than not to download that torrent.

[–] [email protected] 18 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

I feel like this community and the reddit one are made up of 14 year olds who figured out how to torrent 2 weeks ago and are freaking out over the prospect that downloading exe files isn't safe....who would have thought!

[–] [email protected] 11 points 1 year ago

So why did he defend the torrent in the comments and said it was not dirty and the uploader is not banned? This defence is laughable.

[–] [email protected] 10 points 1 year ago

You can feel their frustration in this post. Being a mod is a thankless job.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 1 year ago

You should pin it