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Did this highly scientific study contemplate the possibility that this is in part the result of people feeling like they’re more justified in turning to piracy if a game is burdened with Denuvo?

Spoiler: It does not, so far as I can tell at first glance. It appears that the model is constructed entirely from DRM-crippled games that got cracked, and then then the estimate of how much revenue would be lost by going DRM-free from the start is extrapolated from that based on the assumption that it makes no difference. Maybe it’s true, but the acknowledgement that it “can and often does cause problems, and some developers have chosen to avoid Denuvo altogether because it had such a negative impact on how well their game would run” sort of suggests otherwise.

https://abs.freemyip.com:84/share/_5WuM4QF — be careful following strange links you found on lemmy, but this appears to be the pdf.

If most pirates are the kind who sail around drinking rum and chasing booty, patent trolls are the kind of pirates who blow a big hole in the side of a supertanker to steal a few barrels of oil and let the rest drain into the ocean.

To be fair, Mozilla does have a lot of problems. It’s just that starting out with an unsupportable premise like “Firefox is just a puppet for Google” is not the way to do a good job of describing them accurately or in a way that’s going to convince anyone.

Your opinions are bad, you should feel bad, and you posted this to the wrong community.

Piracy will end when copyright ends.

I wonder which word would fit better than “assisted” there if we knew all the details. Bribed, or blackmailed?

Z-Library. Despite reports of its demise I’ve seen no interruption of service. And of course if there’s one I want to pay for I’ll buy a printed copy.

Disappointing, Germany. How can we trust you to find the best pirate sites when not even thepiratebay.org is on the list?

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41295395

Canada just gave them another big copyright term extension a couple years ago. The more you give in, the more they’ll want. I say they should get nothing more out of Canada for the life of Bob Iger plus 70 years.

Just use your VPN provider’s DNS.

Yeah there is no “plugins enabler” required, that’s just a starfield thing.

If something is overwriting your plugins.txt it probably isn’t Skyrim. Maybe you’re launching something other than the actual game? Such as a mod organizer type of thing which isn’t configured correctly. Skyrim itself definitely should not do that, nor should skse64_loader.exe which is what you’d want to run instead if you have skse (a very widely-used mod).

If you’re using steam, it’s probably steamapps/compatdata/489830/pfx/drive_c/users/steamuser/AppData/Local/Skyrim Special Edition/Plugins.txt

I have ~500 mods working well on linux just by manually installing them one at a time over a couple of years.

Youtube?

I have no data on that. Cheaper and easier to get tlds like .world might be the most dangerous of all.

They’re probably just as dangerous as .com sites.

You should really be more specific. All of them have more content than netflix hulu vudu and prime video combined.

It used to be on ploob, but season 3 is only on nimbo now.

#ChatControl and #EUGoingDark . None of this has even been discussed in the run-up to this election.

Increasingly it does look like Europe really is going dark.

You’ll probably want to use Proton. Being based on Wine, it’s not an emulator. It’s a native Linux implementation of various Windows APIs. One way to do it is Lutris.