Scary Devil Monastery (profile), 15 Nov 2021 @ 12:49am
Re: Re:
"Actually It seems kind of like fraud would probably cover some of this (they knowning sold a product that will refuse to work...)."
Except that the standard EULA means you, the consumer, have already agreed that if the software detonates your computer, incites a mutiny in all your IoT devices, sells your wife and daughter to azerbajiani traffickers and starts a nuclear war...the developers will not be held liable.
In the EU at least when Sony tried its rootkit approach of bricking every consumer's cd-drive they were sued because of consumer protection law - and even there that's what it takes.
In the US though, I doubt there's much you can do.
Now for a lot of these triple-A titles, costing around 59,99 USD or Euro, most people might agree that some unaffiliated third party screwing up really shouldn't be allowed to affect your purchased property. You don't buy a car and accept the damn thing may stop working if GM change a detail in their current assembly line.
But this is copyright we're talking about, where you pay good money for the fraud of ownership where the vendor, in the fine print of a bucket full of legalese, changes the details to mean "lend-lease" and strips away all your ownership rights. Including the one where the product works as advertised.
Scary Devil Monastery (profile), 11 Nov 2021 @ 8:33am
Re: Re: Re: Re: Re: Re: Re: Re: The game customers didn't pay en
"I'm not so sure. One of the points Techdirt regularly brings up is that more creative content is produced every day than was produced before the dawn of the printing press."
Very, very little of was dependant on copyright to be made. I'm sure 17th century germany and france would surprise us all if they'd had the internet.
Scary Devil Monastery (profile), 11 Nov 2021 @ 8:30am
Re: Re: Re: Re: Re: Re: Re: The game customers didn't pay enough
"and in fact I'm very concerned about how much established corporations will be able to steal from independent artists and pass off as their own without a penny paid to the actual creators if it were not to exist."
Abolish copyright completely. Finagle artist 'paternity' right in under Trademark law instead, the work then being part of the artist's brand and protected as if it were their logotype.
This forces the artist to maintain their rights without bullshit life+70 year extensions, prevents commercial abuse of the work, moving the whole problem of plagiarism and illicit sales into a purely commercial venue rather than burden both consumers and courts with reversed burden of proof legislation.
And removes all of the bullshit lunacy about mere copies being made being considered grounds for litigation, instead focusing on the use to which such copies are put.
Scary Devil Monastery (profile), 11 Nov 2021 @ 8:21am
Re: Re: Re: And?>
"If they had actually done that, I do wonder how China would have reacted."
There would be a land war. Chinese nationalism has been surging ever since they clawed themselves out of third world status. Britain's odds at projecting force that distance sufficient to match the chinese forces without the conflict spilling way outside just HK were...not good.
"Who knows, but the reaction would have been very very powerful."
World wars usually are. It would end with a war of attrition China would eventually win - with the bonus of being able to raise yet another generation to stories on how the greedy western barbarians can't wait to storm in and oppress the people of Hua Xia...and being able to parade hundreds of thousands of grieving widows of soldiers in front of TV cameras, teaching every chinese citizen that what China really needs is another great wall against all things western.
As for Taiwan being the legitimate government of China...no. Not with 1,4 billion mainland chinese saying differently and most of the Taiwan citizenry uninterested in it. That would be literally on par with the colonialist bullshit the UK and the US used to pull in africa and the middle east in the good old imperialist heydays of yore.
"...if they had done it we would live in a very different world today."
We might be living in the world depicted at the end of catch-22 perhaps. I somehow doubt anything would be that much better. My money is on things being far, far worse.
Scary Devil Monastery (profile), 11 Nov 2021 @ 7:25am
Re: Re: And?>
"The British should never have turned Hong Kong over to the CCP regime."
The british had a choice. Learn to project sufficient force to wage an interminable land war against China over HK...or save some face and sign it over.
"If anything, the British should have handed Hong Kong over to the government that operates as the continuation of the legitimate Chinese government with whom they actually made the agreement: the modern-day government of Taiwan."
...in which case world war 3 would have started then and there.
Everyone who keeps talking about what the british should or should not have done needs to go back and read up a little history first. And realize that China will go to any length to recover the territories they lost during what they officially call the "century of humiliation".
Yes, the west could have chosen to defend HK. It would have cost millions or possibly billions of dead people before the dust settled. Because it's likely that at some point one party or the other would be breaking out the nukes. The most likely would be China, should they fail to dislodge the west from chinese soil by conventional force of arms, dropping a nuke right on top of HK.
Scary Devil Monastery (profile), 11 Nov 2021 @ 7:18am
Re: "This bill is sponsored by..."
"Also, in this day and age, isn't "representative" government somewhat obsolete?"
Nah. As long as you can get the proportion of warm bodies sent to the seats of power in the national capital to correspond to the proportion of people voting for them, representation works just fine.
Of course that isn't a given with US-style gerrymandering, widespread voter disenfranchisement, artificially imposed difficulties in registering voter id and casting ballots, etc. The US democratic deficit is real.
Scary Devil Monastery (profile), 11 Nov 2021 @ 6:23am
Re: Re: Re: Same old song, just louder
"Even worse than dictatorships?"
Well, it's the worst imaginable democracy or republic. It's not representative either, given how easy it is to become disenfranchised. Even if it were representative no US politician gets anywhere without learning how to sell everyone down the river and turn back on every promise if that is what it takes to get campaign funding.
I mean...ok, at least in name you have a republic. I just wouldn't be too surprised if the actual freedom of choice was somewhere around russian or chinese standards by now...
Scary Devil Monastery (profile), 11 Nov 2021 @ 6:17am
Re: Re: Re: But They're Doing It Too!
"...if the companies do not please the government, the government can fuck the companies, so therefore the companies do the governments bidding, how hard is this to figure out?"
In Russia and China, sure. In the US its usually the other way around. Anywhere else a functioning democracy exists, not so damn much.
"Do you think that WeChat is censoring its users as a private company..."
Because CHINA is the United States of America, eh? Let me give you a hint; assuming that your readership are all morons tends to backfire the very first time one of them turns out not to be one. I guess this time I had the honor of doing that.
"Finally, what is your opinion about the big tech companies banning discussion of the Hunter Biden laptop before the election..."
You mean discussing the dictionary-definition slander case where Rudy Giuliani lied his ass off about a laptop a liberal politician would have allegedly given to a repairman operating from a different state and who was fanatically devoted to Trump?
You know, I'd ban that too. At least until Rudy produced the damn laptop rather than an email I could forge myself in five minutes.
"Freedom of speech is a principal in addition to a constitutional right, our idea of self government relies on the ability of people..."
...to decide whether or not they want to hear you out or not, yes. Freedom of speech and association also means Facebook is free to choose with whom to associate and to provide guest rights.
Now if you believe private entities sufficiently popular are government then that's your insanity to deal with. Its not how shit works nor how freedom works either. It is, however, how an undemocratic autocracy like China works. If that's your preference, feel free to move.
"such as use gain of function research of coronaviruses ... a theory which was also called "racist" before it was proven true."
Just when I thought you'd hit the bottom of the alt-right moron barrel you find something deeper still.
No, that theory wasn't called "racist". It was called "Not true". Simply because extraordinary claims demand extraordinary evidence and a bunch of racist fuckwits desperately looking for a way to make china look bad by spreading a conspiracy theory about how Sars-CoV-2 is an engineered bioweapon isn't extraordinary evidence, or even an indication.
And indication would be scientific concensus that Sars-CoV-2 isn't a logical emergent from the pre-existing Sars-CoV-1. A tough call to make when epidemiologists have been screaming about this exact pandemic being on the way for decades.
I guess it may not come as new that I - and I guess, most other people - will just be flagging your collection of false premises, flawed assumptions, red herrings and straw man arguments for the ripe bullshit it is.
Scary Devil Monastery (profile), 11 Nov 2021 @ 6:00am
Re: Re: Re: Re: Re: Re: But They're Doing It Too!
"Who's this "we", Kobysabe?"
That'd be Koby and his friends in the alt-right all feeling butthurt that every time they start trying to explain about the chemtrails and the protocols of the elders of zion, the gay frogs and how the Bad Black Man stole Christmas they get thrown out of the establishment they're in by the owner of that establishment.
I mean, they're not wrong. They are assholes no one wants around. It's just that in their view the state should swoop in and protect their fragile snowflake egos from the personal opinion of their peers.
THAT is what is going on.
Of course, Koby might put it differently.
I.e. whine ambiguously about mistreatment while making damn sure he's never clear as to why he and his pals are being "mistreated".
Scary Devil Monastery (profile), 11 Nov 2021 @ 5:47am
Re: Shocked!
Shocking, innit?
At the end of the day we have Goldwater and Nixon's "Southern Strategy" to thank for the GOP going from being the party of intellectual liberalism and hard science sceptical of religion to being the party of hysterical fearmongering morons competing in grifting.
I keep wanting to ask wtf happened but, alas, I'm fairly well read both on German tween-wars history as well as the US 60's and 70's. I know damn well what happened and how.
Scary Devil Monastery (profile), 11 Nov 2021 @ 4:58am
Re:
"It's funny how many companies and government organizations trot out the "the security of the data we collect is of the utmost importance" line AFTER an easily preventable breach..."
Given that the WCry trojan was designed by a leaked NSA spy kit we know already that not even the most competent and best funded intel organizations can keep their data secured. What hope does a rural backwards state with half a leg still in the 18th century have?
You sort of have to admire the sheer unadulterated Chutzpah of these fuckwit grifters when they keep standing in front of the yawning door of the empty barn claiming that keeping the horses secured is the highest priority.
Scary Devil Monastery (profile), 11 Nov 2021 @ 4:49am
Re: Re: Re: Re: Re: The game customers didn't pay enough...
"Weird, I've not seen anyone be anti-copyright here"
To be completely fair, I am against copyright. I think information control is a piss-poor idea whether held by government or by private interests, to say nothing of Red Flag Acts of state-enforced monopolies in general.
The issue is that he appears to think being against copyright is "cult-like", which is exactly like claiming the one in opposition to, say, the Westboro Baptist Church must be a "cultist". Looking at the two comments under his current session in this thread, though, bad faith argumentation using false premise seems to be his thing.
Scary Devil Monastery (profile), 11 Nov 2021 @ 4:44am
Re: Re: Re: Re: Re: Re: The game customers didn't pay enough...
True enough, if the copyright cult had their way Homer would have rewritten the iliad half a dozen times, demanding more money every time...and toured greece demanding every storyteller and bard to speak or sing about it cross his palm with silver.
We're talking about an industry which will suppress even its own older works just so they won't compete with newer offers for attention - for which the Disney Vault stands as a literal representation.
The irony is that some 99,99% of what we know as culture emerged completely without copyright yet the copyright cult preachers all keep trying to claim that if it didn't exist no one would ever write a good story ever again.
Scary Devil Monastery (profile), 11 Nov 2021 @ 4:38am
Re:
"I remember because multiple people pointed out a slew of games that have not been cracked that contradict your bullshit narrative."
It really doesn't. Outliers and exceptions are outliers and exceptions. They are quite specifically not the trend. How have you become learned enough to write without realizing how basic reality works along the way?
You could argue about those exceptions. Compare those games against indicators like popularity, exclusive platforms, console-only, fan base conviction etc, and on whether or not they are linked to separate launchers a la steam or origin.
But why employ nuance and bring up some specific grievance with a developer you dislike when you might instead bring an irrelevant example and an ad hom or two, eh?
Scary Devil Monastery (profile), 11 Nov 2021 @ 3:16am
Re: Re: Re: Re: The game customers didn't pay enough...
"Just FYI your anti-copyright cult is just as annoying and stupid."
I wish this was the first time I saw some moron trying to claim the stance "Government-sponsored monopoly of information control in private hands is a dumb and dangerous idea" was "cult-like".
Yet hands down it never fails that some asshat will show up and try to shill for the Red Flag Act of the middleman publishing industry.
But I ought to thank you for providing this excellent seague into my oft-repeated assertion that humanity and culture managed just fine and had some of their most productive periods without copyright at all. Shakespeare, Mozart and Beethoven send their regards on that score to begin with.
No, "annoying and stupid" belongs firmly with the copyright cult who keep having to use religious arguments contradicting observable fact and history to back their cause.
Scary Devil Monastery (profile), 11 Nov 2021 @ 1:53am
Re: Re: The game customers didn't pay enough...
"Well, that's a new line of bullshit. People paying for software are being screwed over because they didn't pay enough when they paid the advertised price requested by the publishers, now?"
Yep. tp's logic squarely states it's the wife's fault she's being beaten - because the man doing the beating can't help it if the kids, entirely due to the mother's lackadaisical fostering, are pushing him beyond the brink.
Copyright cult logic has always been about deflecting blame and projection.
Scary Devil Monastery (profile), 11 Nov 2021 @ 1:50am
Re:
Well, DRM has always been the business of a middleman industry with no real incentive to make their product actually work. Less so than the actual game developers who tend to be the ones blamed when their product fails.
I think it's one of those bizarro-land decisions where modern western corporate management, too scared and risk-averse to dare tell the board all DRM does is screw up the product, just keep quiet and keep allowing a horrible marketing decision to undercut their sales and market reputation...because the copyright cult hype of "the sky will fall if people can copy" is still seen as "real" and no one wants to be the first to go out on a limb and say that the emperor is naked.
Meanwhile game publications have started to include the type of DRM as a review aspect and on Steam there's a separate board which takes up every game to carry denuvo.
Scary Devil Monastery (profile), 11 Nov 2021 @ 12:21am
Re: The game customers didn't pay enough...
"Guess it's this "we must get everything with cheapest price" that causes this kind of mishaps."
Guess that as usual you look out the window at the falling rain and find it a convenient excuse to blame your favorite suspects for.
No, tp, free-market industries will always spring for the lowest bidder. The "cheapest price" was default from the start.
The real reason, as anyone who knows the basics of how a computer works, will tell you, is that DRM costs resources to run. The more secure it has to be the more load it brings to your cpu and any other piece of code trying to run on it.
"When customers don't bother to hand enough money to vendors, the vendors will not bother making DRM work properly, and when DRM do not work properly, paying customers will suffer."
Bullshit. You are frankly speaking blaming the paying customers for the game developer choosing to break their own game.
"The pirates will get another kind of problems -> legal paperwork is already being delivered..."
Last i checked the statistics, getting hit by "legal paperwork" - even in the land of the copyright troll - is still a bit less likely than being hit by stray lightning or having a meteorite land on you.
We all know you're only here to troll - and I have to at least thank you for admitting as much way back when - so enjoy your flag and the silence.
Scary Devil Monastery (profile), 11 Nov 2021 @ 12:15am
Re: Re: Pirates, as always, were completely unaffected
"Some paying customers will even "pirate" a doorless copy of the software after they pay for it, so they don't have to deal with that door every time..."
Quite a lot of people do that. But it's pretty telling that "Does this game have intrusive DRM?" is a very common aspect deciding whether or not a gamer purchases a given game.
Scary Devil Monastery (profile), 10 Nov 2021 @ 6:58am
Re: But They're Doing It Too!
"Because the other industries don't directly threaten the nation's basic constitutional liberties."
Nor does this one. You alt-right trolls keep arguing that a private corporation is government. It's not.
Social media is no more threatening the national basic constitutional liberties than a bar owner is when he shows the nazi patrons the door and tells them to never come back.
You on the other hand keep trying to abolish those exact liberties by implying that government should compel a private entity in regards to the speech it should, according to you, have to carry.
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Re: Re:
"Actually It seems kind of like fraud would probably cover some of this (they knowning sold a product that will refuse to work...)."
Except that the standard EULA means you, the consumer, have already agreed that if the software detonates your computer, incites a mutiny in all your IoT devices, sells your wife and daughter to azerbajiani traffickers and starts a nuclear war...the developers will not be held liable.
In the EU at least when Sony tried its rootkit approach of bricking every consumer's cd-drive they were sued because of consumer protection law - and even there that's what it takes.
In the US though, I doubt there's much you can do.
Now for a lot of these triple-A titles, costing around 59,99 USD or Euro, most people might agree that some unaffiliated third party screwing up really shouldn't be allowed to affect your purchased property. You don't buy a car and accept the damn thing may stop working if GM change a detail in their current assembly line.
But this is copyright we're talking about, where you pay good money for the fraud of ownership where the vendor, in the fine print of a bucket full of legalese, changes the details to mean "lend-lease" and strips away all your ownership rights. Including the one where the product works as advertised.
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Re: Re: Re: Re: Re: Re: Re: Re: The game customers didn't pay en
"I'm not so sure. One of the points Techdirt regularly brings up is that more creative content is produced every day than was produced before the dawn of the printing press."
Very, very little of was dependant on copyright to be made. I'm sure 17th century germany and france would surprise us all if they'd had the internet.
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Re: Re: Re: Re: Re: Re: Re: The game customers didn't pay enough
"and in fact I'm very concerned about how much established corporations will be able to steal from independent artists and pass off as their own without a penny paid to the actual creators if it were not to exist."
Abolish copyright completely. Finagle artist 'paternity' right in under Trademark law instead, the work then being part of the artist's brand and protected as if it were their logotype.
This forces the artist to maintain their rights without bullshit life+70 year extensions, prevents commercial abuse of the work, moving the whole problem of plagiarism and illicit sales into a purely commercial venue rather than burden both consumers and courts with reversed burden of proof legislation.
And removes all of the bullshit lunacy about mere copies being made being considered grounds for litigation, instead focusing on the use to which such copies are put.
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Re: Re: Re: And?>
"If they had actually done that, I do wonder how China would have reacted."
There would be a land war. Chinese nationalism has been surging ever since they clawed themselves out of third world status. Britain's odds at projecting force that distance sufficient to match the chinese forces without the conflict spilling way outside just HK were...not good.
"Who knows, but the reaction would have been very very powerful."
World wars usually are. It would end with a war of attrition China would eventually win - with the bonus of being able to raise yet another generation to stories on how the greedy western barbarians can't wait to storm in and oppress the people of Hua Xia...and being able to parade hundreds of thousands of grieving widows of soldiers in front of TV cameras, teaching every chinese citizen that what China really needs is another great wall against all things western.
As for Taiwan being the legitimate government of China...no. Not with 1,4 billion mainland chinese saying differently and most of the Taiwan citizenry uninterested in it. That would be literally on par with the colonialist bullshit the UK and the US used to pull in africa and the middle east in the good old imperialist heydays of yore.
"...if they had done it we would live in a very different world today."
We might be living in the world depicted at the end of catch-22 perhaps. I somehow doubt anything would be that much better. My money is on things being far, far worse.
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Re: Re: And?>
"The British should never have turned Hong Kong over to the CCP regime."
The british had a choice. Learn to project sufficient force to wage an interminable land war against China over HK...or save some face and sign it over.
"If anything, the British should have handed Hong Kong over to the government that operates as the continuation of the legitimate Chinese government with whom they actually made the agreement: the modern-day government of Taiwan."
...in which case world war 3 would have started then and there.
Everyone who keeps talking about what the british should or should not have done needs to go back and read up a little history first. And realize that China will go to any length to recover the territories they lost during what they officially call the "century of humiliation".
Yes, the west could have chosen to defend HK. It would have cost millions or possibly billions of dead people before the dust settled. Because it's likely that at some point one party or the other would be breaking out the nukes. The most likely would be China, should they fail to dislodge the west from chinese soil by conventional force of arms, dropping a nuke right on top of HK.
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Re: "This bill is sponsored by..."
"Also, in this day and age, isn't "representative" government somewhat obsolete?"
Nah. As long as you can get the proportion of warm bodies sent to the seats of power in the national capital to correspond to the proportion of people voting for them, representation works just fine.
Of course that isn't a given with US-style gerrymandering, widespread voter disenfranchisement, artificially imposed difficulties in registering voter id and casting ballots, etc. The US democratic deficit is real.
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Re: Re: Re: Same old song, just louder
"Even worse than dictatorships?"
Well, it's the worst imaginable democracy or republic. It's not representative either, given how easy it is to become disenfranchised. Even if it were representative no US politician gets anywhere without learning how to sell everyone down the river and turn back on every promise if that is what it takes to get campaign funding.
I mean...ok, at least in name you have a republic. I just wouldn't be too surprised if the actual freedom of choice was somewhere around russian or chinese standards by now...
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Re: Re: Re: But They're Doing It Too!
"...if the companies do not please the government, the government can fuck the companies, so therefore the companies do the governments bidding, how hard is this to figure out?"
In Russia and China, sure. In the US its usually the other way around. Anywhere else a functioning democracy exists, not so damn much.
"Do you think that WeChat is censoring its users as a private company..."
Because CHINA is the United States of America, eh? Let me give you a hint; assuming that your readership are all morons tends to backfire the very first time one of them turns out not to be one. I guess this time I had the honor of doing that.
"Finally, what is your opinion about the big tech companies banning discussion of the Hunter Biden laptop before the election..."
You mean discussing the dictionary-definition slander case where Rudy Giuliani lied his ass off about a laptop a liberal politician would have allegedly given to a repairman operating from a different state and who was fanatically devoted to Trump?
You know, I'd ban that too. At least until Rudy produced the damn laptop rather than an email I could forge myself in five minutes.
"Freedom of speech is a principal in addition to a constitutional right, our idea of self government relies on the ability of people..."
...to decide whether or not they want to hear you out or not, yes. Freedom of speech and association also means Facebook is free to choose with whom to associate and to provide guest rights.
Now if you believe private entities sufficiently popular are government then that's your insanity to deal with. Its not how shit works nor how freedom works either. It is, however, how an undemocratic autocracy like China works. If that's your preference, feel free to move.
"such as use gain of function research of coronaviruses ... a theory which was also called "racist" before it was proven true."
Just when I thought you'd hit the bottom of the alt-right moron barrel you find something deeper still.
No, that theory wasn't called "racist". It was called "Not true". Simply because extraordinary claims demand extraordinary evidence and a bunch of racist fuckwits desperately looking for a way to make china look bad by spreading a conspiracy theory about how Sars-CoV-2 is an engineered bioweapon isn't extraordinary evidence, or even an indication.
And indication would be scientific concensus that Sars-CoV-2 isn't a logical emergent from the pre-existing Sars-CoV-1. A tough call to make when epidemiologists have been screaming about this exact pandemic being on the way for decades.
I guess it may not come as new that I - and I guess, most other people - will just be flagging your collection of false premises, flawed assumptions, red herrings and straw man arguments for the ripe bullshit it is.
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Re: Re: Re: Re: Re: Re: But They're Doing It Too!
"Who's this "we", Kobysabe?"
That'd be Koby and his friends in the alt-right all feeling butthurt that every time they start trying to explain about the chemtrails and the protocols of the elders of zion, the gay frogs and how the Bad Black Man stole Christmas they get thrown out of the establishment they're in by the owner of that establishment.
I mean, they're not wrong. They are assholes no one wants around. It's just that in their view the state should swoop in and protect their fragile snowflake egos from the personal opinion of their peers.
THAT is what is going on.
Of course, Koby might put it differently.
I.e. whine ambiguously about mistreatment while making damn sure he's never clear as to why he and his pals are being "mistreated".
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Re: Shocked!
Shocking, innit?
At the end of the day we have Goldwater and Nixon's "Southern Strategy" to thank for the GOP going from being the party of intellectual liberalism and hard science sceptical of religion to being the party of hysterical fearmongering morons competing in grifting.
I keep wanting to ask wtf happened but, alas, I'm fairly well read both on German tween-wars history as well as the US 60's and 70's. I know damn well what happened and how.
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Re:
"It's funny how many companies and government organizations trot out the "the security of the data we collect is of the utmost importance" line AFTER an easily preventable breach..."
Given that the WCry trojan was designed by a leaked NSA spy kit we know already that not even the most competent and best funded intel organizations can keep their data secured. What hope does a rural backwards state with half a leg still in the 18th century have?
You sort of have to admire the sheer unadulterated Chutzpah of these fuckwit grifters when they keep standing in front of the yawning door of the empty barn claiming that keeping the horses secured is the highest priority.
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Re: Re: Re: Re: Re: The game customers didn't pay enough...
"Weird, I've not seen anyone be anti-copyright here"
To be completely fair, I am against copyright. I think information control is a piss-poor idea whether held by government or by private interests, to say nothing of Red Flag Acts of state-enforced monopolies in general.
The issue is that he appears to think being against copyright is "cult-like", which is exactly like claiming the one in opposition to, say, the Westboro Baptist Church must be a "cultist". Looking at the two comments under his current session in this thread, though, bad faith argumentation using false premise seems to be his thing.
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Re: Re: Re: Re: Re: Re: The game customers didn't pay enough...
True enough, if the copyright cult had their way Homer would have rewritten the iliad half a dozen times, demanding more money every time...and toured greece demanding every storyteller and bard to speak or sing about it cross his palm with silver.
We're talking about an industry which will suppress even its own older works just so they won't compete with newer offers for attention - for which the Disney Vault stands as a literal representation.
The irony is that some 99,99% of what we know as culture emerged completely without copyright yet the copyright cult preachers all keep trying to claim that if it didn't exist no one would ever write a good story ever again.
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Re:
"I remember because multiple people pointed out a slew of games that have not been cracked that contradict your bullshit narrative."
It really doesn't. Outliers and exceptions are outliers and exceptions. They are quite specifically not the trend. How have you become learned enough to write without realizing how basic reality works along the way?
You could argue about those exceptions. Compare those games against indicators like popularity, exclusive platforms, console-only, fan base conviction etc, and on whether or not they are linked to separate launchers a la steam or origin.
But why employ nuance and bring up some specific grievance with a developer you dislike when you might instead bring an irrelevant example and an ad hom or two, eh?
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Re: Re: Re: Re: The game customers didn't pay enough...
"Just FYI your anti-copyright cult is just as annoying and stupid."
I wish this was the first time I saw some moron trying to claim the stance "Government-sponsored monopoly of information control in private hands is a dumb and dangerous idea" was "cult-like".
Yet hands down it never fails that some asshat will show up and try to shill for the Red Flag Act of the middleman publishing industry.
But I ought to thank you for providing this excellent seague into my oft-repeated assertion that humanity and culture managed just fine and had some of their most productive periods without copyright at all. Shakespeare, Mozart and Beethoven send their regards on that score to begin with.
No, "annoying and stupid" belongs firmly with the copyright cult who keep having to use religious arguments contradicting observable fact and history to back their cause.
On the post: Denuvo Games Once Again Broken For Paying Customers Thanks To DRM Mishap
Re: Re: The game customers didn't pay enough...
"Well, that's a new line of bullshit. People paying for software are being screwed over because they didn't pay enough when they paid the advertised price requested by the publishers, now?"
Yep. tp's logic squarely states it's the wife's fault she's being beaten - because the man doing the beating can't help it if the kids, entirely due to the mother's lackadaisical fostering, are pushing him beyond the brink.
Copyright cult logic has always been about deflecting blame and projection.
On the post: Denuvo Games Once Again Broken For Paying Customers Thanks To DRM Mishap
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Well, DRM has always been the business of a middleman industry with no real incentive to make their product actually work. Less so than the actual game developers who tend to be the ones blamed when their product fails.
I think it's one of those bizarro-land decisions where modern western corporate management, too scared and risk-averse to dare tell the board all DRM does is screw up the product, just keep quiet and keep allowing a horrible marketing decision to undercut their sales and market reputation...because the copyright cult hype of "the sky will fall if people can copy" is still seen as "real" and no one wants to be the first to go out on a limb and say that the emperor is naked.
Meanwhile game publications have started to include the type of DRM as a review aspect and on Steam there's a separate board which takes up every game to carry denuvo.
On the post: Denuvo Games Once Again Broken For Paying Customers Thanks To DRM Mishap
Re: The game customers didn't pay enough...
"Guess it's this "we must get everything with cheapest price" that causes this kind of mishaps."
Guess that as usual you look out the window at the falling rain and find it a convenient excuse to blame your favorite suspects for.
No, tp, free-market industries will always spring for the lowest bidder. The "cheapest price" was default from the start.
The real reason, as anyone who knows the basics of how a computer works, will tell you, is that DRM costs resources to run. The more secure it has to be the more load it brings to your cpu and any other piece of code trying to run on it.
"When customers don't bother to hand enough money to vendors, the vendors will not bother making DRM work properly, and when DRM do not work properly, paying customers will suffer."
Bullshit. You are frankly speaking blaming the paying customers for the game developer choosing to break their own game.
"The pirates will get another kind of problems -> legal paperwork is already being delivered..."
Last i checked the statistics, getting hit by "legal paperwork" - even in the land of the copyright troll - is still a bit less likely than being hit by stray lightning or having a meteorite land on you.
We all know you're only here to troll - and I have to at least thank you for admitting as much way back when - so enjoy your flag and the silence.
On the post: Denuvo Games Once Again Broken For Paying Customers Thanks To DRM Mishap
Re: Re: Pirates, as always, were completely unaffected
"Some paying customers will even "pirate" a doorless copy of the software after they pay for it, so they don't have to deal with that door every time..."
Quite a lot of people do that. But it's pretty telling that "Does this game have intrusive DRM?" is a very common aspect deciding whether or not a gamer purchases a given game.
On the post: Klobuchar, Cotton Competition Bill Latest To Pretend 'Big Tech' Is The Only Industry With Problems
Re: But They're Doing It Too!
"Because the other industries don't directly threaten the nation's basic constitutional liberties."
Nor does this one. You alt-right trolls keep arguing that a private corporation is government. It's not.
Social media is no more threatening the national basic constitutional liberties than a bar owner is when he shows the nazi patrons the door and tells them to never come back.
You on the other hand keep trying to abolish those exact liberties by implying that government should compel a private entity in regards to the speech it should, according to you, have to carry.
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