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Kevin Karhan :verified:Similarly, <a href="https://infosec.space/tags/consumers" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#consumers</a> cut back on "non-essential spending" as well, as <a href="https://infosec.space/tags/Greedflation" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#Greedflation</a> & <a href="https://infosec.space/tags/Shrinkflation" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#Shrinkflation</a> bleeds them dry.<ul><li>Cuz even when they are able and willing to pay, they get <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OwuXF1AyKak" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">treated like shit and shafted hard</a> to the point that <a href="https://infosec.space/tags/piracy" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#piracy</a> is not just ramping up, but getting socially accepted.</li></ul>Or to put in the words of <a href="https://infosec.space/tags/GabeNewell" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#GabeNewell</a>: "Piracy is always a service problem!"<ul><li>And given how <a href="https://infosec.space/tags/Valve" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#Valve</a> turned their <a href="https://infosec.space/tags/OnlineDRM" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#OnlineDRM</a> aka. <a href="https://infosec.space/tags/Steam" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#Steam</a> into something that <a href="https://infosec.space/tags/IndieDevs" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#IndieDevs</a> get bullied into publishing on, there's certainly some weight to it, as even <a href="https://infosec.space/tags/EpicGames" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#EpicGames</a> struggles to get even a tiny market share from Valve's de-facto <a href="https://infosec.space/tags/monopoly" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#monopoly</a> despite burning through millions if not billions of money to give away <a href="https://infosec.space/tags/games" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#games</a> (after all they still need to pay the licensees/publishers/creators of the games they give away)... </li></ul>Add to that the obnoxiousness of <a href="https://infosec.space/tags/AlwaysOnlineDRM" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#AlwaysOnlineDRM</a> that makes modern Games literally unplayable when the <a href="https://infosec.space/tags/Publishers" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#Publishers</a> decide to kill the infrastructure needed for it. <ul><li>Steam at least does have contingencies in place to actually remove it's <a href="https://infosec.space/tags/DRM" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#DRM</a> and allow users to get a <a href="https://infosec.space/tags/DRMfree" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#DRMfree</a> copy of their games if they were to close shop but that's not the norm in the industry. Otherwise <a href="https://infosec.space/tags/StopKillingGames" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#StopKillingGames</a> would not be necessary as a petition.</li></ul>

Kevin Karhan :verified:<a href="https://social.furrysex.party/@snow" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">@snow</a> IMHO <a href="https://infosec.space/tags/piracy" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#piracy</a> should only be considered "<a href="https://infosec.space/tags/theft" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#theft</a>" [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.<ul><li>I.e. if a <a href="https://infosec.space/tags/game" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#game</a> has been <a href="https://infosec.space/tags/delisted" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#delisted</a> and the <a href="https://infosec.space/tags/platform" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#platform</a> it was released on is <a href="https://infosec.space/tags/EoL" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#EoL</a>'d then there should be no claim to "damages" as the <a href="https://infosec.space/tags/IP" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#IP</a> holder did not provide a way to <a href="https://infosec.space/tags/license" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#license</a> said content or otherwise comply with <a href="https://infosec.space/tags/copyright" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#copyright</a>. </li></ul>In the past, <a href="https://infosec.space/tags/EA" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#EA</a> 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 <a href="https://infosec.space/tags/DiscRot" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#DiscRot</a> (assuming the publisher is able and willing to perpetually honour this service), not allowing them to legally attain new licenses.<ul><li>As a matter of fact <a href="https://infosec.space/tags/Adobe" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#Adobe</a> canceled <a href="https://infosec.space/tags/OneTimePurchase" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#OneTimePurchase</a> options for their <a href="https://infosec.space/tags/CreativeSuite" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#CreativeSuite</a> after they got successfully sued into allowing people to <a href="https://infosec.space/tags/sell" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#sell</a> and <a href="https://infosec.space/tags/transfer" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#transfer</a> <a href="https://infosec.space/tags/licenses" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#licenses</a> for their <a href="https://infosec.space/tags/CS6" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#CS6</a> and other products.</li></ul><a href="https://infosec.space/tags/Valve" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#Valve</a> & <a href="https://infosec.space/tags/Steam" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#Steam</a> legally workaround this by merely providing access and not a <a href="https://infosec.space/tags/license" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#license</a> per-se.<ul><li>Still, I think <a href="https://infosec.space/tags/piracy" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#piracy</a> 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.</li></ul>I just think that the rampant Enshittification of even <a href="https://infosec.space/tags/PhysicalMedia" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#PhysicalMedia</a> is unsustainable and I wish for an <a href="https://infosec.space/tags/OpenSource" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#OpenSource</a> <a href="https://infosec.space/tags/competitor" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#competitor</a> to <a href="https://infosec.space/tags/BDXL" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#BDXL</a> and it's <a href="https://infosec.space/tags/OnlineDRM" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#OnlineDRM</a>! <a href="https://infosec.space/tags/NotLegalAdvice" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#NotLegalAdvice</a> <a href="https://infosec.space/tags/sarcasm" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#sarcasm</a> <a href="https://infosec.space/tags/Copywrong" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#Copywrong</a> <a href="https://infosec.space/tags/Copyright" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#Copyright</a> <a href="https://infosec.space/tags/Ownership" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#Ownership</a> <a href="https://infosec.space/tags/Enshittification" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#Enshittification</a>

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