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Every now and then, piracy becomes relevant to the day-to-day reporting of games industry news, usually when a big new game has been leaked online before its actual release date, like Grand Theft Auto: San Andreas, Halo 2, or more recently, Splatoon 3 and The Legend of Zelda: Tears of the Kingdom.
And in those cases, the websites covering the leak often get very shy about where exactly that new game can be found online, perhaps because they're worried about assisting piracy, or maybe because they want to keep in the good graces of the publishers whose games have been pirated.