Looks like late stage capitalism is taking away people's right to personal property.
this post was submitted on 31 Jan 2024
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The best case for Piracy is the Gearbox PC port of Combat Evolved.
Broken graphics and other issues which downplayed the impact of the original Xbox version. If copyright - JUST COPYRIGHT, not "intellectual" "property" - is abolished, we no longer have to wait for 343 to finally restore a masterpiece to its former glory.
I'm not much of a gamer anymore...
Might have to visit some torrent sites anyway. Maybe I can find someone who likes Ubisoft games but can't afford them and doesn't know how to acquire them...
Hey I've seen this one before!
Never was
Everyone here will balk and biych about it and rightly so, but this will happen, unfortunately. Why? Because Ubisoft is on the path of enshittification, and most of humanity are dumb and don't care and will walk willingly like sheep to the slaughter.
If purchase isn't ownership,
Then it's time for communusm
EDIT: forgot to type time
Can someone explain the logic behind this? Other than "they say that, so we get to say this!"
If you purchase it and they can still take it away from you at will, it isn’t something that can be owned. If it isn’t something that can be owned, piracy isn’t stealing because for it to be stealing somebody would have to own it.
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The original context of this quote. Which has suspiciously been removed, is in reference to subscription models taking off.
The original quote is more along the line of "a subscription model isn't feasible unless gamers get used to the idea of not owning their games"
So really any line of logic is flawed because it misrepresents the original comment.
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Copyright? More like copyfraud.
I just borrow my games for a little while then I set them free.. like a butterfly if you will...
The term “If purchase isn’t ownership” has no relationship to the article quote. The suggestion of not owning games refers to having subscription-based access to them; as of yet only ever offered as a suggested alternative to purchasing games, which is still very much an option.
These memes are always using terribly structured logic to justify piracy.
The suggestion of not owning games refers to having subscription-based access to them; as of yet only ever offered as a suggested alternative to purchasing games, which is still very much an option.
That is exactly the problem though. How long will it be until the subscription model is no longer an option but the only option? Because i would bet money on that being the actual goal.
That is already the case for many mobile games, so why the person you're talking to doesn't think it will happen overall, I'm not sure.
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I can live with that, I mean, subscription for games, but once a game enters the catalog, it can never be removed.
He's basically threatening to move to a subscription-instead-of-purchase model. They've toyed with this idea for years, and have been trying to normalize it.
These memes are always using terribly structured logic to justify piracy.
Agreed. Nobody needs to justify piracy. Piracy is automatically justified because the reasons people justified banning piracy were bad-faith. Digital IP is theft whose only purpose has failed.