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Hey assholes? Eat a fat bag of shit. You're all surplus to requirement.
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Anything that makes companies lose the slightest bit of control they want to make illegal. If they can't endlessly milk you for money it's a problem.
If Minecraft came out today it would be a subscription service or at the very least would have season packs and cosmetics.
People really ought to be held legally accountable for explicitly lying in situations like this. Lying to legislators should be illegal just like lying to the courts is purjury
[…] and just to clear this up right away: what she said was nonsense. You can, literally right now, head over to the official Minecraft website and download a .jar file to let you run your own private server.
I love how confidently stupid and wrong she was here.
What I fucking hate is this pattern of attacks on open source and self-hosting we’ve been seeing. Anthropic’s CEO saying that open source self-hosted LLMs are “dangerous” for example.
Nice LLM you have there. Be a real shame if one that costs 1/10 the price (and another that can run on a consumer rig self hosted) could outperform it.
Oh but they are VERY dangerous. Dangerous for the 1%’s wealth. What will they do if they have to downsize their billion dollar yachts?????
But the thing is? They're not. Billionaires would still be billionaires without attacking open source and self hosting.
The problem is that billionaires are hungry ghosts. It's not enough to be fabulously wealthy, they just want more. Forever.
They can have more immortality in death.
I know. I was being facetious.
It's not just open source and self-hosting. They're going after Steam because they actually treat their customers well. Despite still not truly owning your games on their, you basically do. As long as Steam is good, gamers won't forget that services can be good, and we can't have that, can we?
I hadn’t heard of Steam being dragged into this. Just let us have some nice things!
For real. I think it ended up being alright, but they sued Valve because of gambling in Counter Strike‽ Like, have they never heard of Overwatch‽
Meanwhile, "Epic" Games profits off of kids who sneak their parents' credit cards for whatever nonsense is going on in Fortnite, and Roblox is full of predators!
All of those, including Counter Strike, are preying on addiction and should either be illegal or at least regulated
True, but why are they only suing Valve? It's sus.
Yes. This is a classic case of a large company buying an open source product that was specifically designed to get children to be creative and build their own worlds and then deciding that such usage is illegal unless you pay loads of money.
A perfect snapshot of enshitification.
Minecraft was never open source.
I think that would count as enclosure
Open source LLMs are very dangerous for their bottom line, they have all the same problems as non open source LLMs and the shareholders don't even make money off of them!
That woman is very angering.
You would think that an organization like this would have a better understanding than the average person
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Entertainment_Software_Association
The Entertainment Software Association (ESA) is the trade association of the video game industry in the United States. It was formed in April 1994 as the Interactive Digital Software Association (IDSA)[1] and renamed on July 21, 2003. It is based in Washington, D.C.[2][3] Most of the top publishers in the video game industry (or their American subsidiaries) are members of the ESA.
They "understand" just fine. They're trying to normalize the destruction of property rights on purpose because they absolutely loathe the idea of anyone not continuously paying them rentier fees for absolutely nothing in return.
They are evil and must be destroyed.
That's fine. If property rights don't exist then there's no legal basis to charge us with anything if we burn their houses and businesses down. We just need to make sure they're unoccupied at the time.
Wait, unoccupied?
hides trebuchet with fire balls.
Just rich people doing rich people things.
Must just be the nutty people in charge now?
For a moment I was so confused as to why the European Space Agency is attacking Minecraft servers.
I'll fix title.
In that case, it seems i am guilty of piracy already, guess i might as well start indulging.
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