If it’s Germany … My best bet would be at the TV kable/streaming companies, but probably behind additional paywall.
AFAIK Germany regulations are strange, the stream copyright owner can broadcast video and later based on your IP send you a Bill to pay claiming unauthorized access.
That’s why I stated that it should be illegal to promise product while selling a undefined time limited license, there should be a clear minimum time stated when you “buy a subscription” for (single player?) games.
I concur Buyer should not gain rights to product, so they should not be allowed to profit from it, but they should be able to preserve it, unless the license that you actually buy had a time limitation, but that should be clearly stated when you buy it that you only buy access to it to (at least) X amount of time like you have with online subscriptions.
I like the concept, you could also detect the compose file name automatically.
Or write down hashes for tag even if compose don’t use your variables so reading from compose, so people would not need to relay on the script but could use it as additional backup
Check also all parent directories, as the whole path need to have access (execute) permissions.
Sounds like a permission problem, probably when you did copy the files then permission did change from like www-data into your user, simplest solution would be to change the permissions for those files (for example to 777 as a temporary solution)
After few attempts I got: http://www.thewebsiteisdown.com/
That would allow to fake votes, as I can tweak my instance to spew any number I want.
Red*it can do that too (if not doing it already) but they also have your personal details linked especially when paying for premium :)
There is Tampermonkey and Greasemonkey.
There is a change for a cross OS malware but it’s probably still quite small.
I would just remove them, and then if they dont re-appear after checking game file consistency then its’s mostly likely not a false positive.
But if you know that last playerd is most likely before you installed current OS then it should be clean. I would check user level autostart and cronjob (so mostly stuff in $HOME/.config) places if something didnt get added, go ahead with life.
Unless you are doing banking and other critical stuff on this machine then I would be thinking of hardedning the OS in some way and/or reinstalling.