Is Piracy Entering a New Era? — Transcript

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1. 0:00Change is very important in life. That
2. 0:02is how growth happens, right? Earlier,
3. 0:04there used to be notebooks where we
4. 0:06would write. After that, laptops and
5. 0:07PCs came along. If you look at laptops
6. 0:10and PCs, they used to be so bulky and
7. 0:12ugly-looking; today, look at the slim
8. 0:14laptops, great PCs, and even handhelds
9. 0:16have arrived. So, all of this is part
10. 0:19of a revolution. Take 2G to 3G, 3G to
11. 0:214G; the latest revolution now is AI,
12. 0:24and when AI was new, it first started
13. 0:27replacing humans. Meaning, the simple
14. 0:30tasks that used to take two or three
15. 0:32people could now be easily done by just
16. 0:34one person. But I am talking about two
17. 0:36or three years ago. Today, so many
18. 0:39tasks get done without any human
19. 0:40interference. You can remotely operate
20. 0:42your system from your phone. And AI is
21. 0:44growing so fast that whatever you learn
22. 0:47today, it gets broken by the very next
23. 0:49day. And AI finds that out itself. And
24. 0:51along with such fast growth comes a
25. 0:53tweet. Which says, "Reverse engineer
26. 0:55anything." A laughing emoji and "
27. 0:58software is done." And before we knew
28. 1:03it, this tweet went so viral. It got
29. 1:053.8 million views in just a few hours.
30. 1:09And after that, when people started
31. 1:11using reverse engineering—meaning
32. 1:13normal developers ran games like GTA in
33. 1:15a browser. Jailbreaks started happening
34. 1:17. Softwares started getting cloned.
35. 1:19Even games that weren't built for PC
36. 1:21started getting ported to PC. And not
37. 1:23just that, for other platforms too—
38. 1:25meaning everything is running on
39. 1:26Android and iPhone; this must sound
40. 1:28very cool. When you see it, it must be
41. 1:30fun to watch. But the truth is
42. 1:32completely different, and it is very
43. 1:34scary. Now, I will tell you all of that
44. 1:36in detail. But when I was planning this
45. 1:38video. When I was researching this, I
46. 1:41saw so many things while researching,
47. 1:42and all this was happening at night, so
48. 1:44it occurred to me, why not get Hardik
49. 1:46on a call and we both discuss it, so
50. 1:48that nothing gets left out. We could
51. 1:50write the script in detail, and all
52. 1:52these important things that I discussed
53. 1:54with Hardik, our call lasted for 40
54. 1:55minutes. And I recorded these 40
55. 1:57minutes in the WhisperFlow note-taker.
56. 1:59And as we were finalizing things, we
57. 2:01now had a summary of the whole call,
58. 2:03what our to-dos are, who said what, and
59. 2:05how we need to talk about things, which
60. 2:08included some of Hardik's opinions and
61. 2:10some of mine. We were going back and
62. 2:11forth on a lot of things. And here is
63. 2:13the summary of our 40-minute call, in
64. 2:15which we talked about software, games,
65. 2:17and even the transcript script as well.
66. 2:21And it works with English, Hindi,
67. 2:22Hinglish, all languages, just the way I
68. 2:24normally talk, and it works with any
69. 2:25meeting app. A pop-up like this appears
70. 2:28, and whatever you say, it notes it
71. 2:30down. Basically, this WhisperFlow
72. 2:32application is something you can use
73. 2:33anywhere, in any place. Even on your PC
74. 2:35, your smartphone, laptop, anywhere.
75. 2:38And if you don't want to type, you can
76. 2:40give long prompts, inputs, and write
77. 2:41messages, all of which you can do
78. 2:42through this. And brother, it doesn't
79. 2:44even record fillers and things like
80. 2:45that. When we stumble while speaking,
81. 2:48or say something wrong and rectify it
82. 2:50while talking, it fixes that too using
83. 2:53AI. And we already know that our
84. 2:55speaking speed is faster than our
85. 2:57typing speed. And along with that, you
86. 2:58can also connect WhisperFlow to Claude
87. 3:00via a connector, and through that, your
88. 3:02entire note-taking will also appear in
89. 3:03Claude. So you can ask Claude any
90. 3:05question directly; for example, the
91. 3:06meeting you had last, let's say the
92. 3:08discussion between Bali and me, I told
93. 3:10it to give me the main pointers or
94. 3:11write a script for it, so you will be
95. 3:13able to get all that done through
96. 3:14Claude. Actually, let me, let me do one
97. 3:16thing. I'll show you how it works. So,
98. 3:17here we have opened Claude and we will
99. 3:19give it a prompt just like we talk in
100. 3:21normal life, very basic. I pressed Fn
101. 3:23twice here. Open my WhisperFlow and get
102. 3:27my latest reverse engineering meeting
103. 3:30and analyze it, summarize it, and add
104. 3:34it to Notion with the title Reverse
105. 3:37Engineering X 2026 or something like
106. 3:41that. Here, it picked up exactly what I
107. 3:44said, and it didn't include any fillers
108. 3:46in it. And here you can see my Whisper
109. 3:48Flow is connected. It searched for the
110. 3:50reverse engineering meeting from my
111. 3:51Whisper Flow meetings, and since my
112. 3:53Notion is also connected, it is adding
113. 3:55a new page inside Notion. And now, it
114. 3:56will create the script and add it to my
115. 3:58script file. So, just like we took the
116. 4:00help of Whisper Flow to make this video
117. 4:01. You can do it too; a QR code should
118. 4:03be appearing on the screen. You can
119. 4:04scan that as well. I have also provided
120. 4:05the link in the description. The first
121. 4:07500 people will get Whisper Flow for
122. 4:08free for 3 months. If you are among the
123. 4:10first 500, let me know by commenting.
124. 4:12Now let's talk about reverse
125. 4:14engineering. Before understanding
126. 4:16reverse engineering, we first need to
127. 4:18understand what it actually is. What is
128. 4:20its process? So basically, to explain
129. 4:22it with a very simple example, imagine
130. 4:23you ate something. Think if you could
131. 4:26find out the moment you eat it, how
132. 4:27many spices were used in it? How it
133. 4:29might have been made? How much oil was
134. 4:30used in it or what the ingredients
135. 4:32might have been? You get to know
136. 4:34everything. Essentially, you figured
137. 4:35out the entire recipe just by taking
138. 4:37one bite. The same thing is happening
139. 4:39with software. How is a software made?
140. 4:41Now, when a software is created and
141. 4:43runs on a phone or laptop, it is in
142. 4:45machine code, which we call zeros and
143. 4:47ones. These are instructions for the
144. 4:48processor which are almost impossible
145. 4:50for humans to read. Converting it back
146. 4:52into understandable logic was the job
147. 4:54of experts. Now, a normal person cannot
148. 4:56read such large binary codes or
149. 4:57assembly codes. Ever since AI arrived,
150. 5:00it is so fast that it can do anything
151. 5:02with just one prompt. Now, people have
152. 5:05started integrating AI with coding to
153. 5:07reverse engineer these apps. Meaning,
154. 5:09things that are so vast in number that
155. 5:11they are impossible for humans to
156. 5:13understand or read. AI can do that,
157. 5:14right? Now, there is a repo on GitHub
158. 5:16called 'Reverse Engineer Anything'. For
159. 5:18those who don't know what GitHub is,
160. 5:20it's basically a platform for
161. 5:21developers where they save their code,
162. 5:22and what they mean when they say "found
163. 5:24a repo on GitHub". A repo means a
164. 5:25repository, which is a folder that
165. 5:27contains the software code. Now, this
166. 5:30repository, 'Reverse Engineer Anything'
167. 5:31, contains many tools that were used
168. 5:33for reverse engineering. To do that, we
169. 5:35used to need experts. It used to take a
170. 5:38lot of time. But AI coding agents like
171. 5:40Claude Code or ChatGPT Codex do the
172. 5:42coding work in an instant. Now, we have
173. 5:45connected these professional tools with
174. 5:48AI coding agents and simply asked them
175. 5:50how a specific feature inside an app
176. 5:52works. If I wanted to build this, how
177. 5:55could I do it? Or, for example, if a
178. 5:57game is built for one specific platform
179. 5:59. If I want to build it for another
180. 6:01platform, it reverse-engineered that
181. 6:03app, tweaked it, and adapted it for
182. 6:05desktop, PC, or any console. Now this
183. 6:08thing is being used everywhere. Just
184. 6:10imagine, the work that once required an
185. 6:11expert has been reduced to just a
186. 6:13simple prompt. As this started going
187. 6:15viral, a circus began on the internet.
188. 6:18Like, we are seeing games where
189. 6:19Spider-Man is swinging around in Gotham
190. 6:21City. Someone inserted Minecraft
191. 6:23Creepers into Elden Ring. Furthermore,
192. 6:25big games like Call of Duty and GTA 5
193. 6:27were made to run on browsers. And then,
194. 6:29these things just wouldn't stop. Then a
195. 6:31developer, C22, ran GTA 5 on an iPhone.
196. 6:34And that too natively, without any
197. 6:36emulator, without a jailbreak, at 50 to
198. 6:3860 FPS! And games that were never meant
199. 6:41for PC, like God of War 3 Remastered or
200. 6:43Bloodborne, which were PlayStation
201. 6:45exclusives, people just ported them
202. 6:46straight to PC. And where our consoles
203. 6:49had an FPS limit of 30 or 60, here on
204. 6:51PC ports, people are running them at
205. 6:53the highest resolution, highest
206. 6:54settings, and highest frame rates. They
207. 6:57are even installing DLSS 3.5 to enhance
208. 6:59the graphics. Hard to believe, isn't it
209. 7:02? I didn't believe it either, so I...
210. 7:03...checked it out by running it on my
211. 7:05own gaming PC. It actually works, and
212. 7:06we even posted a short-form video about
213. 7:08it on our gaming channel. And this was
214. 7:09just an example of PlayStation games.
215. 7:11Apart from this, even Nintendo Switch
216. 7:12games are being ported. They are even
217. 7:14running on phones. Besides that,
218. 7:16jailbreaking—like when Sony releases
219. 7:18new software—the process that used to
220. 7:21be very slow, is now......incredibly
221. 7:23fast. Jailbreaks are coming out
222. 7:25lightning-fast. Now, there is talk of
223. 7:28porting the entire PlayStation 5 to PC,
224. 7:30and it has almost succeeded. Meaning
225. 7:32that if GTA6 comes out on PlayStation
226. 7:34on day one, it’s possible you’ll be
227. 7:36able to run it on PC too; and I’m not
228. 7:38talking about emulating the PlayStation
229. 7:40here, because our PCs use the same X86
230. 7:42architecture as our consoles. So the
231. 7:44entire console is being ported. Meaning
232. 7:46it will use your PC’s CPU and GPU.
233. 7:48And it will work just like an actual
234. 7:50PS5 with the best performance. Now, as
235. 7:52a gamer and as an end consumer, this
236. 7:54sounds very fascinating. "Wow, this is
237. 7:56great, now we'll be able to play all
238. 7:57the games." And we won't even need to
239. 7:59pay that much money. But the story
240. 8:00isn't that simple. I will explain this
241. 8:02entire scenario to you further ahead.
242. 8:04Apart from this, if we look at software
243. 8:05. In the past, it was difficult to run
244. 8:07devices on different operating systems.
245. 8:09For example, a guy had an LG keypad
246. 8:10that wouldn't run on Linux because
247. 8:12there was no driver compatibility. But
248. 8:14it exists for X86, right? So they
249. 8:16reverse-engineered it for Linux, and
250. 8:19now it supports it on Linux. Similarly,
251. 8:21people are debloating their Android TVs
252. 8:23. They are making them ad-free because
253. 8:25such repositories have appeared on
254. 8:26GitHub. I even saw that someone ported
255. 8:28iOS to a Nothing phone. Meaning, iOS is
256. 8:31running inside an Android phone. Now,
257. 8:33all these things were already going on.
258. 8:34Then comes Brand Thomas. This is the
259. 8:37guy who was very frustrated with
260. 8:39Adobe's cancellation fees, so he went
261. 8:41ahead and copied Adobe's entire
262. 8:43software suite. Meaning Premiere Pro,
263. 8:45Photoshop, After Effects, Illustrator
264. 8:47—everything is available on the
265. 8:49internet for free as open source. And
266. 8:51this developer claims that he didn't
267. 8:53even touch the original Adobe code. He
268. 8:55wrote it from scratch just by looking
269. 8:57at public documentation and app
270. 8:58behavior. Now, since he's saying it,
271. 9:00let's believe him. Just think, the
272. 9:01software that massive production houses
273. 9:03rely on, a brand that sells so many
274. 9:05subscriptions per year, its software
275. 9:07became open source in a second. And
276. 9:09since the code wasn't the same, there
277. 9:10were no legal issues either. Now, here
278. 9:12again, as an end consumer, you must be
279. 9:14thinking that this is great. Like when
280. 9:16new games are released, game studios
281. 9:17and developers include DRM protection
282. 9:19so that the game isn't cracked on day
283. 9:21one. But in 2026, a bypass technique
284. 9:24called Hypervisor arrived, which
285. 9:26bypassed even all the Denuvo games.
286. 9:28While it wasn't safe for systems, this
287. 9:31process is now becoming even faster due
288. 9:33to reverse engineering. Think of it
289. 9:36like this: a game is reverse engineered
290. 9:38, and the part where it asks for
291. 9:39licensing or DRM protection is simply
292. 9:41removed, so obviously the game is
293. 9:42cracked and you can run it directly.
294. 9:45This is what we used to call "cracking
295. 9:46a game" back in the day. The process
296. 9:48that used to take a developer a lot of
297. 9:49time to find manually, now happens in
298. 9:51just a few days or even a few hours.
299. 9:53This was about games and software,
300. 9:54which you were really enjoying hearing
301. 9:55about. But what if the same thing is
302. 9:58applied to banking? And this isn't just
303. 10:00a hypothetical question. This has
304. 10:01actually happened. Recently, there was
305. 10:03a series of cyberattacks on South
306. 10:05Korean banks and financial companies.
307. 10:07So far, nine banks have been identified
308. 10:09. One of them even reported that the
309. 10:11personal information of 25,000
310. 10:13customers has been compromised. And
311. 10:15this is the data that we know about.
312. 10:18Just think about the data that hasn't
313. 10:19been discovered yet. Then CrowdStrike,
314. 10:21the world's largest cybersecurity
315. 10:23company, released a report mentioning
316. 10:25that a Chinese-speaking attacker was
317. 10:27using a tool named RTX to perform these
318. 10:29actions. Now, RTX is an open-source AI
319. 10:33agent that goes into systems to find
320. 10:34flaws, and look at the irony: its
321. 10:36GitHub page explicitly states not to
322. 10:38test it on real websites or online
323. 10:40systems. In the middle of this, the
324. 10:43attacker's AI chats were found, where
325. 10:45they were asking where the Korean bank
326. 10:46data could be sold and who might buy it
327. 10:48; seeing this misuse, the RTX developer
328. 10:50stopped providing updates and turned
329. 10:52the tool from open-source to
330. 10:53closed-source. Now, this tool isn't
331. 10:55exactly the "reverse engineer anything"
332. 10:57type. But if you look at the concept,
333. 10:58if you want to find flaws in any
334. 11:00website or app, the underlying logic
335. 11:01feels quite similar. Back in the day,
336. 11:03the biggest security for software was
337. 11:05its machine code, which was very
338. 11:07difficult to read. Now, whatever is
339. 11:08already on the market and running on
340. 11:10your device can be read by AI. You just
341. 11:12need time, prompts, and tokens. This
342. 11:15means creating clones is easy, piracy
343. 11:16is easy, and the chances of security
344. 11:18being compromised are much higher. So,
345. 11:20in my opinion, you can forget the word
346. 11:22"privacy" nowadays, because right now,
347. 11:24anything on the web is not private. Now
348. 11:26the biggest question arises, if all
349. 11:28these things are so dangerous. And are
350. 11:30working so fast, then why are there no
351. 11:32rules, regulations, or compliances for
352. 11:33them? By the way, the day I am making
353. 11:35this video, it is October 24th.
354. 11:38Currently, in Claude's OPS 5.5 model,
355. 11:39you can reverse engineer, but if you
356. 11:41ask it to replicate, they have set
357. 11:43guardrails for that. Now it doesn't do
358. 11:45that. But I am telling you this only
359. 11:47about Claude. Apart from this, there
360. 11:48are models from all over the world.
361. 11:50There are some Chinese models too, and
362. 11:51there is no shortage of clever people
363. 11:53out there. And where there is a will,
364. 11:54there is a way. Everything eventually
365. 11:56gets done. But here I would like to add
366. 11:58my own opinion that, in my view, all
367. 11:59the big AI companies should sit
368. 12:01together and decide on some new rules
369. 12:02for how these things will work. It is
370. 12:05also very important for high-level
371. 12:06diplomats to get involved. It is
372. 12:08crucial to control AI globally. Because
373. 12:11the speed at which we have seen AI grow
374. 12:13in the last 3 years makes me very tense
375. 12:15, thinking that anything can be
376. 12:16compromised in any way, and such cases
377. 12:17are now slowly starting to happen. Now
378. 12:20let's come to the question that, as a
379. 12:22consumer, this is such a great thing.
380. 12:24Everything is becoming free for us. Why
381. 12:25are you so stressed? Why are you so
382. 12:27worried? To run the world economy,
383. 12:29brother, there is a huge requirement
384. 12:31for money, and these things stop the
385. 12:33flow of money. Now if you have cloned
386. 12:35any software, then that company will
387. 12:37face a monetary loss. Apart from that,
388. 12:39if you are porting any game, then the
389. 12:41developers and studios will suffer a
390. 12:43loss. If you make everything open
391. 12:45source, make everything free, and
392. 12:47pirate everything, then money won't
393. 12:49flow and the industry won't grow.
394. 12:51Understand it with an example: the PS5
395. 12:52is currently running. Imagine if the
396. 12:54PS6 doesn't come out. Because Sony sees
397. 12:55that I am not making any profits. All
398. 12:57my games run on PC on day one. No
399. 12:59matter what game I launch, nobody buys
400. 13:00it. So why would they build a new
401. 13:02console? You work on a PC. Every year,
402. 13:04new graphics cards, new processors, and
403. 13:06new motherboards come out for your PC.
404. 13:07The same goes for laptops. Why do they
405. 13:09come out new? Because new games are
406. 13:10made, new software is created, and new
407. 13:12applications are developed. Which have
408. 13:13higher requirements. That is how
409. 13:15technology grows. Now think, everything
410. 13:17is so open source. Everyone will get
411. 13:18their things customized as they want.
412. 13:20When a game like GTA5 is running in a
413. 13:22browser, you can see how assets can be
414. 13:25managed. So you might not need a
415. 13:26high-end system the very next day, so
416. 13:28that industry will also stall. And
417. 13:30ultimately, the money flow from the
418. 13:31market will stop. So businesses that
419. 13:33won't even be impacted by AI, for
420. 13:35example, food businesses, cafes,
421. 13:37construction, or any business where
422. 13:38software or AI is not being used. How
423. 13:40will people avail services from those
424. 13:42businesses? When people won't even have
425. 13:44money in their pockets. So it is very
426. 13:45important that this continues in this
427. 13:47way. But yes, there is another side to
428. 13:48this as well. When AI was brand new,
429. 13:50companies adopted it very quickly. Big
430. 13:53companies fired their employees. Man,
431. 13:55those people are suffering too. And I
432. 13:57think these are the same people who are
433. 13:59retaliating because they were kicked
434. 14:00out so quickly. Now that you are in
435. 14:02trouble because of AI, why are you
436. 14:03getting worried? So that is why we need
437. 14:06rules and regulations so that neither
438. 14:08the end consumer nor the companies
439. 14:10suffer losses. Otherwise, a global
440. 14:12crisis could emerge. Now it's not like
441. 14:14nothing was happening alongside this.
442. 14:15Like we heard in the middle that some
443. 14:16US companies were saying that AI
444. 14:17training should be slowed down. But
445. 14:19here, a geopolitical angle also comes
446. 14:21in. If the US stops, China is sitting
447. 14:23right there, and they might not slow
448. 14:25down, so the AI race and this
449. 14:26competition are causing overall
450. 14:28problems for everything. And I am
451. 14:30genuinely scared to think about what
452. 14:32the future will be like. Let me take
453. 14:34you a little deeper as I end this video
454. 14:36. Right now, only software has been
455. 14:38compromised. After some time, banking
456. 14:39will be compromised, some cases of
457. 14:40which we have already seen. Then
458. 14:42national security, and after that, you
459. 14:44can't even imagine where we are heading
460. 14:46. That was all for today's video. If
461. 14:48you liked it, hit the like button, and
462. 14:49do let me know your opinion on this in
463. 14:51the comments. And see you in the next
464. 14:53video. Until then, bye.