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take it out on actual queer people.
I mean, considering how awful the kind of folks who would do such a thing are, I don’t think it’s unreasonable to say that’s probably the ulterior goal. Getting Steam points is just a bonus on top of helping convince other abusive right winger dipshits that queer people need to be attacked because of the fake queer people they made up.
cared more about having the game appear on their Steam list than actually playing it.
Obligatory Johnny Mnemonic:
EasyTouch maxed out at 400 DPI and the 256 was 256 shades of grayscale.
It doesn’t say when the original ScanMan Color came out or how many colors it had but the Color 2000 didn’t come out until '96 and had a 24 million color pallette.
So, yeah, sounds about right for the ScanMan 32.
Nah, scanned with that Logitech Portable Scanner.
Doing the cyberlords work
This guy looks straight out of the film Hackers.
Also, for real, mirrorshade sunglasses never went out of style.
Oh I know. It’s a shell of what it used to be, but Bandcamp Fridays still happen and artists have confirmed that they’re getting full payouts for them.
It’s terrible what they’ve done to former staff (laying them off) and current staff (making them do more with less) but currently it’s one of the few ways to ensure the money still makes it to artists. The ownership of the company hasn’t impacted that part of the ethos of Bandcamp… yet. I’m sure the day will come when there is the final Bandcamp Friday, but it isn’t here yet.
The study considers two main types of anti-piracy messaging. The first, prosocial messaging, asks pirates to consider the effect of their consumption on others, such as harm to film industry workers and how piracy compromises the quality of future productions.
This might work for some people, but folks who are familiar with Hollywood and Recording Industry accounting practices and payment schemes fully understand that this is a joke and those industries work fucking hard to not pay people a living wage.
It’s an instant turn off and reminder whose pockets I’m really putting money into unless I’m supporting artists directly through something like Patreon or Bandcamp Fridays.
Real pro-social anti-piracy messaging would work on providing me with more options like Bandcamp Fridays, instead of making empty promises that they can renege on easily.
Mullvad hasn’t had port forwarding for like a year or more?
https://mullvad.net/en/blog/removing-the-support-for-forwarded-ports
https://www.pcworld.com/article/496050/riaa_thinks_limewire_owes_75_trillion_in_damages.html
In 2011 the RIAA sued Limewire for more money than existed on the entire planet.
They know, they don’t care.
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There have been numerous studies over 20 years that consistently show that pirates actually spend more money on media than the average person.
There are people in private trackers I have seen who literally advertise how all their rips are Blu-Rays they purchased. With how prolific some of those uploaders are, that’s literally thousands upon thousands of dollars worth of media they have bought.
I started caring about it as an issue when I found out that all the money Sony made from suing people for music piracy never made it to the artists. Artists had to sue Sony for any cut of that money. It is never about helping the artist.
Bandcamp is dying but they still have Bandcamp Fridays where the artists get 100% of the sale.
PerogiBoi here probably has it right. I remember during the heyday of Piracy in the early 2000’s strings of sites coming down, Comcast getting busted for illegally using Sandvine to throttle or even outright block bittorrent traffic, Limewire being sued for more money than existed in the entire monetary system of the planet at the time, and corruptly buying out the courts of a foreign country so we could put The Pirate Bay admins in prison.
When people start putting on their piracy hats, they bring out the big legal guns.
EDIT: I will literally never get over Limewire being sued for more money than existed. It proved, without a shadow of a doubt, in my mind, exactly how bullshit the fines for individual copyright violations are. If piracy resulted in more money than exists… you can’t prove to me that that is a lost sale. Because there literally was never enough money to have afforded the purchases to begin with.
Sounds like its time for a pirate fork… maybe yt-dlpirate?
I mean, fuck it, one of the big private trackers could do releases, kind of like how Bibliotik does releases of those tools to strip DRM from ebooks.
Considering the kind of art direction talent they pull and the fact that they have some shots of Gwimbly in action…
I kind of half expected Zach Hadel to make it and release it on torrent sites. It would fit his style.
I’d seed the fuck out of that Alien Tony Hawk game.
For real I keep waiting for it to pop up on GGn.
I’ve not had great success with Mullvad, it seems like they’re a known quantity to the BBC, or at least their VPN endpoints are. I didn’t have any WebRTC leaks or anything, but it still saw me as being outside of GB.
Do you know what libgen.is?
Anna’s archive references libgen plus more.