Now that you mention indie games, I think it’s important to distinguish intents and showcase how publishers are shooting themselves in the foot.

Someone who pirated an indie game (why tho?) and liked it, is more likely to pay for it because indie publishers also provide better medium to pay for the actual software, or contribute to the actual developer, with fewer middlemen and rent-seekers. If someone pirated an AAA game and liked it and wanted to buy it, their options are still limited due to one of the main reasons of having pirated the game in the first place. At prices of, like, US$ 60 lol, hey’d have to wait until a Steam supersale or smth…

They could steal your personal data without you knowing.

Hah! Like the “legal” services are much better than that!

Technically the media conglomerates should be the ones to be sued: they provide material to be pirated in the first place!

You can be ordered to log however.

Zero-knowledge protocols are important.

Nice try, fed.

Talking news and sharing links? There’s lemmy for that!

Nothing screams “capitalism!” louder than a geofencing over Anne Frank of all things.

Lemme see, US good, China bad?

Eh, I don’t know if it was illegitimate or not considering he allowed abuse to carry on on the platform for years and due to no encryption it was well known about.

Knife makers absolutely know people are using their tools to commit crimes, up to and even murder. Are they going to be held up until they do Something™ about it?

It’s a licensing statement. Their post is CC-licensed.

Don’t Google hold the keys to the kingdom on that one? I see it as unlikely that Signal adds support.

They do stand up for themselves. Meaning, their bottom line.

I’ve never said Telegram is better. I’m just saying Matrix is also bad.

XMPP is the future.

Isn’t matrix like an absolute non for privacy?

But the right solution is inconstitutional and anti-corporate! Even socialist and maybe even “woke”! So, this is the option TPTB are leaving us with.

Don’t like it? The second most useful thing to do compared to this is to ready your guillotine. That is the language they understand.

Oh yeah that should be cheap considering Cuba is right around the corner, for example.

I plan to keep using my current 2015-ish phone to watch my media at home, so it’s likely I’ll keep off of AV1 until phones are made somehow hardware upgradable (Fairphone?). Plus, in a general sense, in order to reacquire new media in a better codec you have to at least keep the old media around until you have finished verifying the new, otherwise you run the risk of ending up with no good copy.

Sounds sus.

I won’t dispute that both of these likely abuse the subscription model for their benefit. But they definitely have a social responsibility (and in many cases a legal responsibility) to keep updating the software in these products and the network infrastructure that go with them.

I mean, it would be zero cost if it was a fucking normal device. Someone had the idea that a juice squeezer or a toaster should be online… for… what, exactly? Remove the online (or even better, remove the software), you completely remove the cost that you want impugn on the user with “subscriptions”.

AYO how is that legal?

Capitalism!