@snow IMHO #piracy should only be considered "#theft" [with damages being limited to the cost of properly licensing it!] if the pirated material was still offered for licensing new under fair, reasonable and non-discriminatory terms.

• I.e. if a #game has been #delisted and the #platform it was released on is #EoL'd then there should be no claim to "damages" as the #IP holder did not provide a way to #license said content or otherwise comply with #copyright.

In the past, #EA did offer to replace broken discs / cartridges for a nominal fee [AFAIK €10 per disc or €15 for double-discs] if people mailed in the original (broken) media. I'd say that is should apply to everything, tho granted that only allows people in theory to deal with #DiscRot (assuming the publisher is able and willing to perpetually honour this service), not allowing them to legally attain new licenses.

• As a matter of fact #Adobe canceled #OneTimePurchase options for their #CreativeSuite after they got successfully sued into allowing people to #sell and #transfer #licenses for their #CS6 and other products.

#Valve & #Steam legally workaround this by merely providing access and not a #license per-se.

• Still, I think #piracy in almost all cases is (as GabeN correctly said:) "A services problem!" and if a product is fairly priced and then people will be willing to pay for it.

I just think that the rampant Enshittification of even #PhysicalMedia is unsustainable and I wish for an #OpenSource #competitor to #BDXL and it's #OnlineDRM!

@sodiboo @tauon @puppygirlhornypost2 @silly

Worse is even the #Tablet market: #Android #Tablets may be plentyful if you just go sheer listings, but in terms of #MarketShare they are negigible in "the global north" and thus not interesting for #developers to even bother adapting or testing for unless they themselves are #GAFAMs.

• It's really fucking sad when @thunderbird is one of the few #Apps that I know that properly use Android Tablets' screen estate at all. Allegedly #Microsoft's own Apps do so as well but I myself have no #AndroidTablet and can't bring myself over the gag reflex trying to sideload #OneNote or any other App and having to deal with yet another shitty account...

Whereas on #iPadOS you get AA+ and #IndieGames worth their money by a long shot.

• Don't even get #developers like @fuchsiii started on how piss-poor premium Apps on #Android sell and how that Tablet segment is essentially dead outside of markets where people can buy a house and a years' worth of necessities for the price of a single #iPad...

And that's why there are only #PayToLoose / #P2L aka. "#PayToWin" / #P2W games for #Android as #piracy is rampant and statistically noone is willing to pay for a #OneTimePurchase #Game on that platform.

@FediFollows or even if tools like @kdenlive ain't fitting, at least consider #OneTimePurchase #CCSS (i.e. #DaVinchiResolve) instead of #enshittified #Subscription-only #SaaS!

@CenTdemeern1 +9001%

• Same reason why #Microsoft doesn't combat #Windows #piracy even when done in broad daylight or in general, because normalizing shitty #CCSS instead of #FLOSS keeps them relevant and in the game.

OFC they gonna axe #Windows & #MicrosoftOffice anyway in favour of #subscription-only #Saas like #XboxGamePass, #Office365 / #Microsoft365 & #Azure because that's where the real margins are, not with #OneTimePurchase products!

@mgorny nodds in agreement

We need to reestablish 1990s & 2000s standards and do better as in helping people use #FLOSS or real #Freeware and if they can't avoid #CCSS at least choose those that are #OneTimePurchase without #DRM...

@Daojoan that was before #Microsoft shoved #AlwaysOnlineDRM into #MicrosoftOffice.

Ask @frank_rieger about that shitshow...
https://web.archive.org/web/20230728202847/twitter.com/frank_rieger/status/999319383917957121

@getimiskon Lets just say, I hope #Gimp3 gets more than a move to #GTK3 but a complete overhaul in #UI & #UX...

• Granted, I do rank it almongside #Freeware like the older versions of #PhotoFiltre and would tell everyone who works on #Graphics to get at least a #hackintosh if not a #MacMini and buy the #Affinity Suite cuz #AffinityPhoto and #AffinityDesigner are propably the best #OneTimePurchase 3rd party #creative #Apps for #macOS I know...

They just work out of the box.

• So yeah, #GIMP has to step up their game, just like #Kdenlive has!

@puppygirlhornypost2 @navi Precisely!

• And I am convinced that a multi-billion corporation like #Microsoft could not have overlooked this issue but intentionally desires it as selling a #insecure and #unstable #OS like #Windows11 benefits them by selling workarounds (i.e. advertising #OneDrive as a "anti-#Ransomware" & #Backup solution.), pusing fr #Office365 / #Microsoft365 and other "#Cloud" bs.

Because selling people #OneTimePurchase #Software isn't as profitable as #Subcriptions!

@anthropy the problem is less of a technical possibility but that it would taint the setup with unlicensed (or rather violating the EULA of Windows) parts, thus making it not feasible...

• Kinda like how @atomicpoet said re: emulation...

I think it'll only stall the inevitable: #Microsoft cancelling #OneTimePurchase #Sotware in favour of more profitable #Cloud & #SaaS-offerings...