Lemmy.world is about a year old. It definitely wasn’t two years ago.
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.
Still downloading for me, but I see more than one review saying it takes a long time to get good. I’m keeping my expectations low.
EDIT: Glad I was warned it starts slow. It does get better if you stick with it.
EDIT 2: It entertained me for a week. It’s no Skyrim, or even Fallout. I would have been pissed if I’d paid for it.
No, Denuvo was first used in Sept. 2014 and Fallout 4 came out Nov. 2015.
Every day they stray further from Odin.
“Smoking is bad, m’kay? You shouldn’t smoke. And alcohol…well, drinking alcohol is very bad, m’kay?”
It’ll be coming sometime next year. Making splitscreen work on the Series S is holding up development.
That narrative appears to be correct, although at the end I think it may have been more like “You know, now that this asshole mentions it, maybe we shouldn’t host stuff from these piracy communities as Lemmy’s largest instance. That might create problems for us down the road.”
They definitely should have been more transparent about why they chose to do it at this particular time.
Why’s that?
It’s not really a Streisand effect, because .world doesn’t give a shit if you go to those places or not - they just don’t want the liability of you doing it from their instance.
No, that’s the removeds at lemmy.ml.
Yeah, I agree with that. It’s not the blocking that’s such an issue, it’s how they came to decide to do it. Definitely wasn’t handled well. I wonder if the (even more) downtime they’ve been having recently is a result of more people being pissed about this move piling on to the DDOS attacks?
They denuvo the shit out of their games, so it’s actually pretty hard to pirate them nowadays.