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[ANSWERED] What's going on with some person seemingly called "PirateSoftware" and the stop killing games campaign? (lemmy.abnormalbeings.space)

submitted 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago) by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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Saw people talking in comments at several places now, expressing animosity towards them to say the least, always presented as something that everyone seems to know about.

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[–] [email protected] 0 points 1 week ago (31 children)

He's a youtuber who is a known game dev.

And he's pointed out the obvious issue that you can't just demand companies keep servers up and running, if you legally mandate servers can't be turned off then companies would stop releasing online games because that's stupid.

It often costs millions of dollars a year to keep servers up and running. If they are causing the company to lose money, then yeah obviously they're gonna turn em off.

Only naive, entitled gamers would demand such a wild thing. It's not going to get past any courts

[–] [email protected] 0 points 1 week ago (2 children)

Lol, maybe learn about the movement, dork. This is absolutely not what's being demanded.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 1 week ago (1 children)

I am very aware of it, and I've read the proposal.

This is absolutely not what’s being demanded.

It is 100% what is being demanded, the proposal says:

This practice deprives European citizens of their property by making it so that they lose access to their product an indeterminate/arbitrary amount of time after the point of sale. We wish to see this remedied, at the core of this Initiative.

The ONLY way to do this is everything aformentioned. It's indirect in how it's asking for it, but in real life practice the only way the proposal actually gets what it wants, is by either:

A: Demanding (foolishly) that the game devs keep the servers up and running (not happening, get over it)

B: Demanding (even more foolishly) that the game devs release a copy of all the necessary backend technology for self hosting, which you can't demand because it's proprietary and some of it may still be in use, so it's a security and business risk to expose that sort of stuff, so no business will ever be able to feasibly do that.

Sorry but no, it's a foolish demand.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 1 week ago

Oh, shut up, loser. That quote does not support your argument on any level.

And your best argument is that server code "may be proprietary"? Fucking pathetic.

You are lying. We all know you're lying. And, you suck at it. Like, you really fucking suck at it.

Go away.

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