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Critical support for the Lemmy world peeps in their fight against pro-intellectual property nerds
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this post was submitted on 15 Aug 2023
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Imagine being this much of a fucking square.
I haven't heard someone call a person a square in a long time.
Found bungiefan's new alt name
Get a life dude
Marathon was really unique and I know Halo has a lot of fans, but the far end of the Bungie fandom licks a lot of boots.
Joined 6 hours ago, I'd be willing to bet money that they're the same person.
so are the people profiting from said work. the owners of the business keep the revenue, they don't give it to the people who did the hard work.
justifying the expropriation of surplus value through tired liberal platitudes - it's almost like someone wrote a book 200 years ago explaining in gratuitous detail why you're wrong.
Bootlickers like you also make this claim to justify insulin having thousands of percent markup from the cost of manufacture.
Its just the business model for leeches at the top to siphon off all the value created by peopoe who actually do the work. This is why pirating is so awful. Think of the C-suite overlords and shareholders!!!!
Paypigs are pathetic. Imagine forking over money to some corporate publisher to "support the artist" . Want to support independent artists/creators? It's called commissions and donations(patreon, kofi, etc.)
And I have news for YOU. I WILL keep on supporting the piracy of unoptimised, incomplete garbage games, that use the preorders as beta testers, famous examples being Gollum and Cyberpunk 77. In comparison, I see no problem paying for quality games like Skyrim, or games that have fixed their issues, like Shadow of War removing the microtransactions and fixing most of the bugs. But crap like Gollum (the game, I have a sort of respect and pity for the character) has no place on my system, even if I had Duck Tales money, even if I had a 2 TB RAM, multiple 4090s or whatever the latest overpriced Nvidia crap is, and the latest, most powerful, server level CPUs, with like 128 cores or something, I still wouldn't buy and play this garbage. Alright?
I velieve rhis shpuld be done to teach the lazy bastards in management in those game companies, that if you want good sales, you have to take things a bit slower and poliah the product out. Unfortunately, it seems that they don't give a fuck, because Denuvo protects their games during the first few months of sales, when they make a profit on the garbage they've made. Then they do some bug fixing and move on to the next cash cow. That's how the gaming industry works. And I don't know about you, but I do NOT want to support this mess.
You're the toxic Bungie fan. These days, munching trash is your job!
Nah. They become not-trash when they get the bugs fixed. With what I'm doing I'm hoping to send a message that this way of doing things sucks!
I don't care.
Already a
opener, right up there with "um," and "hate to break it to you, but"
Some day sucking all that shoe polish off of corporate footwear will pay off and you will wear the boot! Keep at it, treat defender!
Your refractory period must have passed because you're doing the
thing again in the same post.
You may need to hydrate, have more Vitamin E, and possibly have a burn clinic on speed dial with all that mental masturbation you're doing here.
Stealing rules hope this helps
And you'd do the same, if you could.
Your boss steals every day from you. Corporations steal every day from us. Why are we supposed to act like docile sheep?
If you really think, you get a fair share, you're naive or trolling.
Every profit your company pays to shareholders is fruit of your labor stolen from you. And if you can't see that, you're exactly the kind of docile worker they want.
BTW: it's typical for types like you to look down upon the lower class as stupid and lazy. That's a way for you to feel empowered in the face of the inherent unfairness of the system. And you can ignore, that you're being fucked just like the others. You just get a cushion for your elbows, so it's slightly more comfortable.
We're living in a world that's actively killing the planet and lets literally millions of people die of starvation in the name of profit and your answer is "guess they weren't educated enough"...
You are the problem. Your blindness, lack of empathy, lack of education or simply stupidity, I don't know. But you are the problem.
When I am able to pay content creators directly, I do. I am not a pirate, myself, though I have pirated in the past. I think some of the rationale behind pirating derives from intolerance of anti-consumer practices. If I'm paying for a streaming service, I shouldn't be forced to watch ads. If I'm paying for a game, there shouldn't be day one DLC-gated content, especially if that content is already part of the game and the DLC does little more than unlock it (I'm looking at you Bioware).
Pirating isn't always about stealing for the sake of using or watching something for free. It can be about that, sure, but it isn't always. Often, it's about punishing entities for bad practices---for treating customers unfairly, for instance, or for restricting access to content.
And usually the people who make decisions that negatively affect customers are removed from the creation of the content itself. It's kind of sad, really.
I think you may have misunderstood: sometimes the intent is to hurt a company. I believe that sometimes it can be entirely morally justifiable.
Nobody's pirating $5 games. People pirate price-gouge-tastic games from billion-dollar corporations that cost hundreds if not thousands of dollars in total, and are designed to exploit players' psychological weaknesses (like gambling addiction or childhood naïveté) to extract far more money from them than a reasonable adult would be willing to pay. They also ruin the experience of their own products with high-overhead DRM like Denuvo, which pirates remove. These are not honest businesses, they are extremely profitable despite widespread piracy, and they do not require or deserve your sympathy.
Lol I hardly think that companies like EA or Microsoft are "honest businesses" or "small artist[s]", fuckers have made billions of dollars through their anticompetitive monopolistic bullshit.