Comment on Pluralistic: "If buying isn't owning, piracy isn't stealing"

• AngryCommieKender@lemmy.world ⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  It’s not just Sony. All the digital library providers have done this. Apple, Amazon, and Google have all had similar instances that resolved the same way; the consumer got fucked.

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  • iamtherealwalrus@lemmy.world ⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    Ohh yeah, Microsoft. I own Forza 7 Motorsport. It’s installed on my hard drive. Microsoft killed the servers so I can’t even play single player because the tracks weren’t included in the game. You have to download the track every time you play single player or multiplayer.

    That is not the same thing. You still own the game, wherever or not it is playable is not the same as not owning. Legal bs but that’s how most Western societies are built.

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    • S410@kbin.social ⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      Whenever a game or program or goes unplayable you can not go and fix it, despite "owning it".
      Removal of any kind of DRM, even if for personal, even in products you've bought, is illegal.

      And there's no lower-limit on how "secure" DRM has to be: even if you can perfectly re-implement server-side software, tricking the program into talking to your server, instead of the original, is, at best, legally grey area.

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      • iamtherealwalrus@lemmy.world ⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

        I’m not sure what your point is? We’re taking about ownership, not whether you can reverse engineer sine DRM.

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  • ParsnipWitch@feddit.de ⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    What’s with the hundreds of thousands of other media that is shared?

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    • AngryCommieKender@lemmy.world ⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      What about them. I’m not talking about freely shared media, I’m talking about media companies repeatedly removing access to media that we paid for. It is a pattern of behavior from these “people” and if they won’t stop stealing from us, then I propose we nuke their headquarters.

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