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What the Entertainment Software Association did (europe.pub)
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[–] 278 points 2 months ago (18 children)

Every time you load an app into memory you are making a copy and therefore you are a criminal.

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  • [–] 70 points 2 months ago (1 child)

    This is the future that capitalists want. When you can no longer afford components because they hoarded them all, you will have to rent computers from their cloud. Dont worry? It’s all real and legal because it’s justified by the humungous next step in humanity known as AI which was so important that we had to buy up all the computing resources. It’s so good guys it’s important that none of you be able buy any computers that you can use without the supervision of the AI cloud services. Trust us.

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  • [–] 24 points 2 months ago

    Streaming high performance applications such as games is now a public health concern as local compute contributes to heat generation in urban areas.

    Public fountains and cooling centers will be decommissioned and a daytime water use ban will be in effect to ensure essential data services stability.

    Due to extreme heat citizens are urged to avoid outdoor activity during daylight hours.

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  • [–] 20 points 2 months ago (4 children)

    Don't worry soon no one will be able to afford their own memory and then piracy will be solved forever!

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  • [–] 5 points 2 months ago (3 children)

    And soon thereafter we see articles of corporations freaking out customers went back to bills on paper in the mail, written cheques, cash deposits and lots of manpower to process everything manually.

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  • [–] 14 points 2 months ago (4 children)

    This is the "theory" by which publishers try to justify the validity of EULAs (they argue: "buying the thing isn't enough; you need to agree to this to be able to actually use it").

    But, fun fact: copyright law has a specific carve-out for that incidental copy, 17 USC §117 (a) (1), which means EULAs offer no 'consideration' and are therefore bunk.

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    • [–] 112 points 2 months ago (2 children)

    An industry body with no authority to do anything said a thing that goes explicitly against its members stances.

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    • [–] 94 points 2 months ago (18 children)

    I host a server on my home lab and just play solo, all this time I was a criminal and didn't know

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  • [–] 17 points 2 months ago (7 children)

    You and me both. Hell mine is even modded with the phoning home patched out.

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  • [–] 14 points 2 months ago (9 children)

    What is the context here? Meme with no article or explanation of what is going on.

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  • [–] 6 points 2 months ago (3 children)

    when you find out please let me know too

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    • [–] 83 points 2 months ago (4 children)

    Wow, fuck the European Space Agency! >:(

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  • [–] 29 points 2 months ago (3 children)

    Yea, fuck European Speedrunner Assembly

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    • [–] 54 points 2 months ago (5 children)

    Why does an ESA even exist? They are literally being the fun police.

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  • [–] 57 points 2 months ago

    They run E3. Oh wait that died.
    They run ESRB and rate games. Not that anyone pays attention.

    So that pretty much leaves their extensive lobbying efforts on behalf of the largest publishers in favor of more copyright law and such.

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  • [–] 7 points 2 months ago (3 children)

    Because otherwise the government is going to create a fun police.

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    • [–] 46 points 2 months ago (6 children)

    How the fuck can Microsoft say that a private Minecraft server is piracy?

    Where the fuck did people download the Minecraft server version?

    What next, Costco is going to arrest me for trying stealing the free samples?

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  • [–] 30 points 2 months ago* (2 children)

    Microsoft didn't say shit. Some idiot from the ESA did.

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  • [–] 15 points 2 months ago

    Some idiot represents Microsoft as a member of the ESA so Microsoft really should clear this up if they don't want it reflecting badly on them. Of course, that's if they even care and aren't going to use this as backdoor to stop supporting private servers.

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    • [–] 35 points 2 months ago (1 child)

    Wow, an industry advocate organisation saying stuff that just proves they have no idea what the industry is actually doing, or what's actually good for them?

    Not really shocked.

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  • [–] 15 points 2 months ago

    Nah they are lobbyists. They know what they are doing. They know that legislators have no clue what it all means and have no time to find out what these lobbyists are saying is true. It’s just typical lawyer talk subterfuge

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    • [–] 25 points 2 months ago

    So .. not ESA, the European Space Agency, founded in 1975 then.

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    [–] 24 points 2 months ago (1 child)

    Another day of me wondering what the fuck the Americans are even doing? Like it's completely incomprehensible, it follows no logic.

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    [–] 15 points 2 months ago

    ESA can go fuck themselves.

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    [–] 9 points 2 months ago

    For a moment I was confused because why would the European Space Agency have a problem with Minecraft?

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    [–] 9 points 2 months ago

    Oh, don't worry, I'm not pirating you shit, I use it to train AI therefore I'm allowed to do whatever I want. It's for AI you see.

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    [–] 5 points 2 months ago

    So i am a pirate, indeed.

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