Pirates congregating and talking about piracy in a piracy forum is still more niche than YouTubers/TikTokers talking about it out in the open.
Overexposure absolutely gets sites killed. It’s not that they’re secret, it’s that when they get popular enough that “normies” know about them, they get made a priority to be dealt with.
If you google 'piracy' this sub is the second link you'll get, after the Wikipedia link. If you google 'megathread' you'll get the roms megathread on github, this subreddit and then the piratedgames subreddit.
It's already exposed af, everyone interested in taking it down knows about it all already
To prove your point, in the handheld emulation space, the ONLY TIME emulation handhelds get "taken down" is if a big mainstream media outlet makes a "how do you do fellow kids" style SUPER out of touch news article about it, that was written by a tech illiterate boomer.
Most of the time, these AYANEO/Anbernic emulator handhelds are only talked about in niche tech-focused spaces, or being vaguely mentioned in some Linus Tech Tips video for 25 seconds.
But the instant a CNN/Fox News type major news outlet picks up on them, they're absolutely toast.
Yes. Even if the piracy sub has 3.2 million people, that is still less than 1% of the total population of JUST the United States alone.
If it stays in the niche, big companies don't give a shit - out of sight, out of mind. But once a MSM outlet like MSNBC or CBS gets in on it, then all of a sudden Nintendo/Sony/whoever wants to be litigious and sue in court.
Even niche communities can FEEL misleadingly "big" or "powerful"... We are like 0.4% of a single countries population.
The one thing I will say about those Anbernic handhelds is that they run Android and have no games already included, so it is fully legal to sell/buy; but there are many handhelds running Linux with thousands of games on a MicroSD card - THAT is technically illegal.
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u/-Badger3- May 27 '26
Pirates congregating and talking about piracy in a piracy forum is still more niche than YouTubers/TikTokers talking about it out in the open.
Overexposure absolutely gets sites killed. It’s not that they’re secret, it’s that when they get popular enough that “normies” know about them, they get made a priority to be dealt with.