Today I wanna talk about the pirated games scene. It's a touchy subject but I think it's interesting.

A couple years ago, there were various groups who could hack a game , and there were competition for who could get there first. But then came denuvo.

Denuvo is a special anti crack- digital manager rights(drm) , made by old crackers who now work to prevent it happening , charging for that protection.

Although it became very difficult to crack a game , it is still possible , but the counterparty is it introduces a loss of performance and stutters on the game.

So , those who crack a game , today have better performance than those who buy the game . That is not fair right ?

Introducing empress :

The only person/or group of people who are capable of cracking that denuvo software ATM.

Like Satoshi, she/he/they are able to remain anonymous and she accepts Bitcoin donations , so it's interesting for us digital freedoms advocates.

The last controversy it's she was banned from reddit , but still operates from telegram.

She would be a good candidate to spin a nostr relay , and post the links there , without anyone being able to introduce a ban.

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What would be your security requirements for the relay? I imagine the relay operator would want to remain anonymous, so the relay would be accessible from Tor only. Other relay users could repost notes to outside clearnet relays. I like how Nostr would allow the author to sign their work and receive zaps.

I don't think i have heard of Thor relays yet . Did you?

Empress used to operate via reddit , so I guess being totally anonymous wouldn't be necessary. Just a VPN on their part would solve it . But so would a Tor relay.

We assume she is from a country that drm laws are not so strict.

Just being uncensorable would sove it .

Yes, there are Tor relays. I just haven’t set mine up as an onion service.

I think we will see some form of file distribution microservice on Nostr protocol. Working on something in this space. Advantage would be tipping⚡️ the file note rather than the person who sent you a link and provable authorship of the file note. As the relays would be holding the files, precautions would be necessary to avoid DNS takedowns of illegal content.

On a new development to this story , empress , the now confirmed Russian cracker of games has been banned from reddit , her user and her community. And a lot of people who were replying to the posts were banned too.

She now only operates from telegram and couldn't discover nostr soon enough.

She has an antitrans ideology, together with being Russian and hacking games was enough for reddit to institute a ban .

Very interesting .

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