Considered safe only because people haven't noticed anything malicious happening? Yeah, that's still a no go for me; just because people haven't noticed, doesn't mean it's not happening.

[–] Diabolo96@lemmy.dbzer0.com 1 points 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago) (1 children)

If You can afford to pay, then cool. Most people that pirate can't afford the games/apps anyway, so it's not really a matter of asking if it is safe to pirate but what site are safe to pirate from. Also, Pirates tend to be tech savvy from getting screwed a few times when they were younger (Ex: me), so a good chunk most certainly know how to detect viruses.

[–] lemmyingly@lemm.ee 2 points 1 day ago

You think you know how to detect a virus, but you only know how to detect a virus that doesn't hide it's actions.

It's not about paying for software or pirating it. It's about if you pirate software, should you run it on bare metal, a VM, or on a machine with nothing else on it.

I think pirating software is perfectly fine, but I'd never run it on bare metal on a machine with other stuff on it.

[–] boonhet@lemm.ee 1 points 2 days ago

I hope you compile all your own software from verified sources then rather than downloading a ready-built Linux distro with binary packages.