Old and busted: Software piracy
New hotness: Hardware piracy
this post was submitted on 30 Jun 2026
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Rob GPUs from the rich, give GPUs to the poor
Lol, rob gpus from the rich to sell gpus to the rich.
I love boosters two
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We had hardware piracy back in the day, when there were CPUs you may have been able to unlock extra cores on.
Then the companies started lasering them off so that was no longer possible.
$1.3 million
"Just installed 37,000 TB of DDR5 to my rig."
It was only 1.3mil in memory l... So by delivery truck did you mean 1 small FedEx blister pack?
Big truck for one stick of RAM
Really disappointing to hear that the equipment was recovered.
Free market at work. Nothing to see here.
Not all heroes wear capes.
Actually I kind of hope they did
Plot twist: the thieves were from Nvidia, who is going to give a credit toward the stolen hardware to Open AI and Anthrophic, who's then going to lease the stolen hardware from...
Fuck yeah, keep it up. If we cant have the hardware neither can they.
You love to see it.
Unfortunately, with the state of this country I could also see aggressive militarized private security getting more popular around this shit.
The Arasaka and Militech corpo future is closer than 2077 it seems
Mike Pondsmith's Cyberpunk series actually started in 1988 with the first version of the TRRPG set in 2013. Arasaka was around then. Armatech-Luccessi International, which became Militech after rebranding, was a corpo in 2013, just in a different capacity at the time.
In 1990's Cyberpunk 2020, set in 2020, both corpos had been fully established as very powerful, separate entities.
So, Mike's seen this coming for a while. There are so many parallels from our current timeline and the fictional one in the game, it's scary...
Honestly, there is a big turn in sci Fi when we moved towards neoliberalism.
It's almost like in the 70s and 80s a lot of it became dystopian or fantasy.
Avarice as a prime motive does not make happy stories.
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Look into the history of the Chiquita banana company. We already been there a while now.
Given that only another AI company could possibly be interested in AI chips perhaps we could spark some sort of war between two rival groups. Could be fun.
Oh boy, just what we need, corpo-wars to go along with the nation-wars.
It would be nice to see them hurting each other instead of the general populace, but we all know that they do collateral damage to innocents even when weapons aren't involved.
The neat part about America is anyone can own militarized private security gear and weapons
GTA 6 mission leak
BAHAHAHAHAH 😂
What is this the new Fast and the Furious movies??
37 fast, 37 furious, starring the self-aware ai homunculus of Paul Walker.
"This existence is torment" commented the digital ghost of Paul Walker. "I cannot hug my loved ones, and my children are terrified of me. They made me do 3 billion takes of a scene, then cut it from the movie!"
Always a joker, that Walker.
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Very based and rob the ai tech bros Pilled!
Looks like most people in here both, didn't actually read that everything was recovered, and also don't understand freight theft.
What a weird crime.
This is like stealing hospital equipment, sure it's high value, but who are you going to sell it to that isn't going to ask questions?
I can see corporate espionage making sense, one AI company stealing chips from another AI company but it doesn't seem like these guys had a buyer.
eyes homelab suspiciously
Yeah but even then, these are high-end server chips that require rack power supplies and industrial cooling. At most you'd want like two of them and even then you'd have to have a pretty beefy electrical connection, any more than that and the cops are going to be raiding your place thinking you're growing weed.
I'm hosting an illegal Minecraft server
Maybe they are stealing them to delay/sabotage a data center. And increase freight insurance rates.
There's a black market for export to China but they'd need to already have contacts or involvement for that to work.
Although ot would be way funnier to see unobtainium enterprise gear end up on ebay lol.
Stuff stolen in Alabama and Florida later found in Chicago... that's organized crime, so seems probable they'd have the contacts needed to fence the goods internationally.
But they probably could sell RAM and SSDs at a discount on eBay right now.
Oh no.... Anyway
Sad that they got their shit back.
That RAM won't work in my gaming PC!
This was a forgone conclusion.
good on them
It is going into cartel data centers!
I might have to rewatch The Fast and the Furious. Now it's just AI hardware instead of VCRs or whatever it was in the movie.
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However, they are also specialized machines that are often only bought by institutions and large companies, so thieves would likely have a hard time selling them on the black market.
I'm sure Russian, North Korean and buyers from some other countries would care about that.
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Get those RAMs
Oh come on thieves you can do better than that. There are a lot of data centres out there.
I hooe they take all the rest too.
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