Unrelated but what is the aesthetic of the thumbnail's image?
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Or force them to admit they are selling it for real without all the license mumbo jumbo. They have always known what "buy now" buttons were meant to lead you to believe. And — in my humble opinion — you aren't wrong for believing that; they are.
I’m not sore how downloading cars works but when I do it it feels like I own it…
Next: make it so games can't suddenly lose their music license. This is so incredible annoying. I know it's depending on what the publishers negotiated, but it shouldn't be possible to suddenly patch out soundtracks because of a license expire.
I'd never even heard of this before. Wtf
Some games, like Allen Wake, have been full out removed from sale because of expired music license. There has been other cases some come back later with the music stripped.
Try downloading any GTA before 5, there will be a community guide about the missing songs and how to restore the radios.
require games to buy perpetual licenses for the music?
Other way around. Require sales of licenses to games to be perpetual. The way you phrased it means that the license holders can charge way more.
it's a distinction without a difference.
Seriously. If I bought GTA before those licenses expired, my download should always have them, even if newer ones do not (which, to be clear, still sucks that that's acceptable).
Let's just face it. There isn't ever going to be a publishing company that doesn't fuck us however they can for an extra dime. Companies are machines full of people deciding whatever they have to for money.
There also will never be a way they can keep us from just copying files.
They've already invented ways to keep us from just copying files: in that they don't provide us with all of the files in a lot of cases anymore.
If it can display on your screen or play through your speakers, you can copy it.
If it's software as a service, just don't buy. We can live without whatever it is they make.
Well, sort of. HDCP exists, and does make it harder to capture an AV stream.
For interactive content, the current push online components hosted on external servers adds a lot of complexity. While a lot of that stuff can be patched around by a very dedicated community, not every piece of content gets enough community appeal to attract the wizards to do such a thing.
And while anyone can digivolve into a wizard given enough commitment and effort, the onramp is not easy these days. Wayyy back when cracking a game meant opening the file and finding the line for 'if cd_key == 'whru686', it was much easier to get casually involved. Nowadays, DRM has gotten so much more sophisticated that a tech background is essentially required to start.
HDCP exists, and does make it harder to capture an AV stream.
Not really. You can just use a $10 splitter from Amazon
I figure the content that's not popular enough to already be pirated is coming from smaller artists who should probably have my money.
I don't buy it in that case, but it takes me a lot of leg work a lot of times just to figure out what I'm buying, because no one is interested in making it clear besides GOG; even then, there are things I wish they did better on that front.
Just let me buy a license then download it wherever I want
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