Comment on ‘Digital ownership must be respected’: UK parliament debates Stop Killing Games campaign, but government doesn’t budge

TigerAce@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨3⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

• 5gruel@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

  I mean I am a pirate as much as the next guy but this is missing the point. They acknowledge ownership. They just don’t agree that it transfers to you when you buy a game. So that argument gets you nowhere.

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  • Frenchgeek@lemmy.ml ⁨3⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

    If buying isn’t owning, piracy isn’t theft.

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    • 5gruel@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

      Yeah, no. You buy services all the time, without owning the thing or person providing the service.

      If games are or should be a service is a completely different question. I wholeheartedly think that they are not, but that is irrelevant to the argument. But I can’t stand those polemic phrases that miss the point completely.

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      • TigerAce@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

        They force it on to us that we cannot own products anymore but instead are “a service” where we are stripped of our rights, are costantly fed with restrictions locked behind more payments and broken products never to be finished as they don’t care about it: they already got their money. And since we don’t have rights, as stated in the user agreements, we can just go fuck ourselves.

        So you may be right, that it doesn’t work “like that”, but that’s something those fucked up companies forced upon us without consent. Stop defend those companies dude.

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