That’s what I love about open source. Things build on other things iteratively, from Wine to DXVK to gamemode to Proton to UMU to various launchers like Zoom, Lutris, Heroic, minigalaxy.

Sure things can be deprecated and out of maintenance in both open and closed source systems, but with proprietary code being dropped your only option is reverse engineering it which is that much more of a barrier.

“Yeah, here, check my /dev/null real quick”

Thanks, I had Black Desert Online written off my list years ago.

It’s nice to have information available on the Fediverse for any Linux Gamer looking to find a solution to play this.

Thanks for trying to bring an alternative perspective to the table.

Neither argument is very compelling. A) is like “if I can’t have nice things, no one can”, and think about those arguments against loan forgiveness or healthcare. B) is wishful thinking game companies will charge what people are willing to pay no matter how many copies are sold. And unlike physical goods, the cost per digital license doesn’t really much if more copies are sold so expected sales volume doesn’t affect costs much in that sense. Piracy itself also doesn’t incur any cost (other than mythical lost sales), while Denuvo and other anti circumvention technology does.

It’s hard not to laugh when “Microsoft Windows” and “secure” are in the same sentence.

Mullvad has an open source client. It can also be set up usung OpenVPN too.

Bear in mind they don’t have Port Forwarding anymore.

https://spotpassarchive.github.io/ has instructions for 3ds and wiiu if you scroll down.

The instructions are different based on your software version and if you have CFW/softmodded your console.

See my comment

I get ya, American anti-communism indoctrination is involved. Thanks for the treatise. Back to the topic at hand.

One big difference in Japan vs. North America/Europe is that second hand music, videos and video games are waaaaaaay easier to find at reasonable non-scalper prices.

Warner Bros. is an example of a movie company that gives zero fucks to any of the artists producing their movies, not sure what good supporting them will do.

Don’t be ashamed! This is a post on [email protected] after all.

Yes the LibDems there are right wing neo-liberals but it’s not just corporations driving it. Insofar as I’ve talked to actual people in Japan whom I know personally and consumed Japanese media this is the basis of how I know what the overall politic is like. A lot of apathy, care about tax cuts above all else, and nationalism.

Louis’ list comes from the perspective of moral in the sense that “were the people that provided you entertainment value provided appropriate compensation” which is why the list is ordered this way.

Looking at it in the lens of preserving items for the common good, this could take form of #1 or #3, where you bought a copy but you don’t want it to degrade or fade into obscurity, but it could also be #15 where you just don’t want to lose it and it doesn’t matter to you whether the creator should have benefited.

It’s important to be cognizant of various worldwide perspectives, considering the part of your comment on political discourse.

Some countries don’t care that everyone pirates everything and anything.

Others, like Japan for example, have copyright ingrained both in the laws and in the culture. Some think “right clicking and saving an image on a public website” is theft. It’s part of the reason Sony and Nintendo are so anal about copyright and how there are no Manga sharing sites located in Japan.

So not only the laws different everywhere what is legitimate discourse changes too.

Thanks for engaging with the scenarios listed. The point of the exercise is to see where people land personally, there’s no one size fits all ethical principles but a lot of overlap. The RIAA, MPA, Irdeto (the group that makes Denuvo) etc. could argue that all of these cases are piracy and unjustifiable. Others see everything as justifiable, just because they’re used to it, it’s simply not financially accessible to them, they don’t care or they just want to subvert the entire concept of capitalist ownership, as evidenced in replies downthread.

see my other comment

I don’t agree with everything he says but he does stick to his principles well.

I totally understand that. But the colouring is for the category column and not in the context of the situation row, and since the column is about putting money forward or not, Yes is positive and No is negative.

In a sense, not being able to afford it is itself a region lock on it.

Yeah, so it seems like some of the situations in the table would be acceptable to you but not all.

3. You always have the right to do with your copy of media, whatever you want. Remix, trade, critique, promote, copy, etc

Not if the way they give you the media restricts you from exercising those rights.

Warner Brothers is a perfect example about an art industry giant that doesn’t give a flying fuck about art and artists. They’ll throw years of artists’ work in the trash if it makes them more money than not doing that.