And while we’re at it, get fucked Pearson and other scummy textbook publishers!

How is that meaningfully different from “the camera generated”? Both result in a full image from a single input.

Yes? “Hey wanna catch a movie?” “Sure, looks like the new Deadpool has a showing in like twenty minutes.” “Dope. You order the tickets, I’ll drive.”

Why would they not apply the same system to all purchases? Either seats are reserved or they aren’t.

So that someone ordering online doesn’t try to buy your seat. Obviously.

Taping off the radio didn’t kill the music industry, neither did Napster. Adobe did perfectly fine while small artists were using pirated copies of Photoshop. Sharing DRM-free software isn’t going to bring about the apocalypse. It’s already been happening for decades.

Providing a convenient storefront and launcher is enough for most customers if they think the price is fair. Gating multi-player, or achievements, or even hats behind some kind of proof of payment is going to catch a lot of people who might otherwise get a free copy.

“You can’t stop regular digital items from being copied and distributed for free, it’s simply not possible.”

Yes, good, stop trying. Accept that some people are going to pirate. Fighting this just makes the user experience worse for everyone else.

Steam is the worst acceptable format, is what I’m saying. Licenses and DRM are a thing we should move past not embrace.

I’ll simplify: I don’t want that future. Steam is currently acceptable because they provide a low-impact market, I think their 30% cut is reasonable, and offline mode is adequate. If that changes I’m done. GOG also exists and is a preferable model, but the experience isn’t as polished.

I don’t care if sales drop a bit, the early success of stuff like netflix and spotify and steam proves that most people will happily pay a reasonable price for access rather than pirate. It’s only a “problem” for the capitalists and fuck em.

Sure. Digital “ownership” is like trying to put a round peg in a square hole, it’s applying rules and concepts to a fundamentally different thing. As long as it comes along with a tip culture for creators or some kind of guaranteed income.

I recently set up a password with a 16 character max, alphanumeric only, no spaces. The service is in no way a security threat but still.

“If we hold the country hostage, they’ll definitely do what I want before the opposition makes everything irreversibly worse.”

Don’t give them the benefit of the doubt.

But I’ve been told in no uncertain terms that .ml and hexbear were the instances full of people arguing in bad faith…

That kind of stuff catches legitimate users all the time. In Rust for example it’s common to get kicked for “fly hacking” while jumping on vehicles. The more open-ended the game the more weird edge cases become very relevant. Especially if it has a halfway decent physics sim. Tons of ways to give players weird velocities. Then it has to account for the variance ping introduces…

Some stuff, yeah. Should be easy to check if a player has too much HP. But spoofed communication between the client and server is a tough nut to crack when you can only see what the client wants you to see. Keeping everything server-side would help but that introduces latency to every input, unacceptable for anything even moderately paced.

All thay said, it would be a lot easier to swallow the “necessary evil” argument if it actually fucking worked.

The “gourmet premium eggs” (regular eggs laid by pastured chickens instead of life-in-a-tiny-cage chickens) also barely increased in price during the covid/bird flu/supply chain price gouge excuses.

Hank Scorpio would be much preferred.

If that is your only benchmark for morality, sure.

That’s a very coercive relationship, I don’t think there’s an ethical way to implement “optional” suicide when the only alternative is the other party having total control over your life.

CTH was kicked out for saying “John Brown was right actually, killing slavers is good” and made an example of, along with thedonald way after it had been abandoned. Full “antifa is as bad as fascists” garbage but it’s what the shareholders want.

And it wasn’t all tankies, there were a lot of LateStageCapitalism refugees that git kicked because LSC was just straight tankie. I got kicked for suggesting that North Korea isn’t good just because the West says it’s bad.

People really want to be allowed to be bigots and currently Communism is “safe” to hate, so they let a few interactions color their opinion of an entire, loosely-affiliated group.