copyright and all of intellectual property was meant to "promote the progress of science and useful arts"---it has since eroded it and held it up for ownership by capitalists public domain was originally 14 years after publication. 14 years ago was 2010---imagine if everything before 2010 was in the public domain. All video games. All movies. All books, songs, etc. How much of our culture could be preserved? Compare that to now. How much of what you imagined is owned by a corporation? Managed by shareholders? Has the commons been fostered, or has it been divided into fiefdoms?
skulbuny
we also should be supporting open source games---if it's open source, it's preservable! these people are already essentially giving up any revenue just to make something for someone else, we should be lifting them up, too!
These guys are literally the bottom of the totem poll (none of them are managers etc), there's a reason theres a players union
They're rich, but they ain't likely upper class
Can we not shift this from the very important issue of how stupid this streaming situation is into the much less important, albeit still valid, "one rich athlete spends slightly less than his fair share in this one instance"—no one is defending this guy because he's rich, only because it's the irony of the situation
The more people who pirate, the better. It doesn't matter who as long as everyone is getting away with it equally
Unless you consider probabilities. That's a very strange field—you can't objectively verify it.
Who are they stealing my personal data from, corporation?? Are they stealing it from me or from you??
The only other legal option is to cede console porting to someone else. This is the best option, legally.
It saves ewaste. In 6 years, will macOS still be supported on these machines? Maybe. Will an open source distro be supported? If it's still thriving, yeah.
I always call my little helper higher order functions (intended to be partially applied) factories :)
Name one statically typed language that doesn't have that property. Name one non statically typed language that has that property.
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