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
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?
Really disappointing to hear that the equipment was recovered.
Big truck for one stick of RAM
Free market at work. Nothing to see here.
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
Look into the history of the Chiquita banana company. We already been there a while now.
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The neat part about America is anyone can own militarized private security gear and weapons
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Not all heroes wear capes.
Actually I kind of hope they did
GTA 6 mission leak
BAHAHAHAHAH 😂
Very based and rob the ai tech bros Pilled!
Oh no.... Anyway
Fast XI?
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.
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.
Maybe they are stealing them to delay/sabotage a data center. And increase freight insurance rates.
It is going into cartel data centers!
good on them
Get those RAMs
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.
Portable DVD players, yeah. This was literally the first thing I thought of when I saw the headline.
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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This was a forgone conclusion.
I hooe they take all the rest too.
Oh come on thieves you can do better than that. There are a lot of data centres out there.
That RAM won't work in my gaming PC!
Looks like most people in here both, didn't actually read that everything was recovered, and also don't understand freight theft.
lol
I never thought I would be for a heist until now.
Sad that they got their shit back.
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