I like to actually buy indie games like celeste or scarlet hollow, the devs deserve it
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blave@lemmy.world 4 months ago
I learned that, decades ago, piracy was always the best option
lena@gregtech.eu 4 months ago
Buddahriffic@lemmy.world 4 months ago
Reminds me of the time I installed a 3d modelling program at work and decided I liked it and pirated it at home.
The work one took weeks of troubleshooting on my own with the instructions followed by email back and forth with support. And the business I worked for had a partner license the whole time. Their DRM involved a dongle in the parallel port and a license server running on the local machine.
At home, I decided one day to use it to make test files for a raytracer I was writing, found it, downloaded it, installed it, and was running it by the end of the night without any of the fancy shit they tried to add to prevent this.
That was when I learned that that pain in the ass DRM was only a pain in the ass for legitimate users and lazy/naive piraters.