They denuvo the shit out of their games, so it’s actually pretty hard to pirate them nowadays.

Lemmy.world is about a year old. It definitely wasn’t two years ago.

Present day with 2005 desktop.

Which of course makes no sense - if you don’t have the money to buy it either way, pirating has no effect on revenue.

Ah, Gaben’s “piracy is a service issue.”

The only time I see piracy as unethical is if you would have paid for it otherwise and it’s a small creator who will actually notice the lesser revenue. This covers very, VERY few cases because the vast majority of the time if something is good enough to want to pirate it, it’s popular enough that more than enough people paid for it to adequately compensate the creator.

Basically, are you hurting the creator’s ability to make a living by pirating it? Giving them less money when they already have more than enough doesn’t qualify.

You wouldn’t download a Rick and Morty meme

It may be copyright infringement, but not stealing.

I am Groot!

truck: consequences

cylinder: Trump

But what about capitalism and food production?

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Diablo 2 was completely remade graphically. Whether it was worth the price is another matter, but effort was put into it.

Apparently it was a sesame stick.

What, you don’t like watching videos like you’re looking through a keyhole?

Don’t you forget about them!

Okay, granted, but only using the term “bogged down” adds to the misconception that the problem is too many accounts on the server. It should be clarified that it comes from a deliberate outside source.

They’re a nuisance, but are proving the benefits of a decentralized system more than anything else.