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Game Companies List 'FitGirl-Repacks' as a Key Piracy Threat


The ESA, which represents several major gaming companies, includes FitGirl-Repacks in its latest overview of notorious piracy markets.

These submissions serve as input for the USTR’s yearly overview of piracy ‘markets’ which helps to shape the U.S. Government’s global copyright enforcement agenda going forward. “In July 2024, fitgirl-repacks received 22 million visits, offering visitors access to ESA member personal computer (‘PC’) game titles. Other newcomers highlighted by the ESA are cosmocheats.com, a relatively small cheat seller with a few thousand daily visits, and the online marketplace eldorado.gg that sells game accounts and virtual items without permission.

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