Government of Türkiye is pushing a new regulation that would force Steam, Epic, PlayStation etc. to appoint local representatives. If they refuse? The whole platform gets banned.

They also want full access to user data and the power to arbitrarily ban "risky" content. This isn't just a Turkish thing, governments everywhere are trying to pull this crap. They think blocking platforms will control us? All they are doing is driving people straight to VPNs and piracy. If you make it impossible to buy games legally, we'll just sail the high seas for free.

Thanks for the boost, I guess.

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[–] qwerty@discuss.tchncs.de 30 points 4 days ago* (last edited 4 days ago) (1 children)

DRM, digital locks, hardware locking fuses etc. should be illegal. If I buy a car I can change the lights, swap out the engine, do whatever I want with it, it's mine, I own it. Why shouldn't I be able to do the same with my phone or game? Why should some company have the right to tell me what I can and can't do with my own property that I paid for? That's not DRM (digital rights management) because they have no right to manage my property, it's OSM (ownership subversion mechanism) and that's what we should call all that anti consumer bullshit.

[–] rbn@sopuli.xyz 19 points 4 days ago (1 children)

If I buy a car I can change the lights, swap out the engine, do whatever I want with it, it's mine, I own it.

I'd argue that modern cars behave very similar to DRM-protected games.

[–] jjlinux@lemmy.zip 3 points 3 days ago (1 children)

It's not similar, it's the exact same crap. Yeah you can change the tires of your choice, as well as the cover for your phone or the sleeve for your laptop, but that's about as far as you can go with your 'new' car nowadays.

[–] rbn@sopuli.xyz 2 points 3 days ago (1 children)

you can change the tires of your choice

Not if they have integrated pressure sensors.

[–] jjlinux@lemmy.zip 1 points 2 days ago (1 children)

I'm confused, honestly. How can TPMS force you to brand or models of tires? Honest question, I had no idea that was even possible. Can TPMS also know the type of rim? Now I'm concerned.

[–] rbn@sopuli.xyz 1 points 2 days ago

I'm not a car expert, but from my perspective everything that has microchips increases the burden for DIY as you need special hardware and software to pair, program, reset that stuff. In case of tires I already had the case that I had to go to another car repair shop, because the one I usually go to didn't have the right device to reset the sensor and pair it again with the car.