“Denuvo often interferes with legitimately-purchased games while doing little to hamper pirates from playing cracked releases”

This isn’t *exactly* correct.

Denuvo, like any piracy protection program, isn’t perfect. But it usually takes months to crack most Denuvo safeguards. The trend is clearly established:

1) When…

This very obviously isn’t the worst thing possible, drop the fatalistic language and talk like an adult then maybe we can get somewhere.

Uh....yes it is. Your just used to getting it for free. But it is, definitionally “free stuff”.

I mean, then buy an Xbox....whatever the fuck they’re calling this version.

“I deserve free stuff” 

I think the concern is people doing exactly what I did: bought PS4 versions of FF7 Remake used on the cheap (relatively) as well as Watch Dogs: Legion for the free upgrades. Got a $70 game (MSRP) for about 25 and 20 bucks respectively

I think Sony’s Playstation division honestly tries, but is just generally bad because Sony as a whole is fucking terrible.

I think Nintendo honestly knows you’ll pay whatever for your hit of nostalgia, and sincerely doesn’t give a fuck.

Imo, promising a $10 dollar universal upgrade option for future cross platform titles is a very reasonable compromise.

The issue before was this:

1) Tom wants a PS5 but can’t buy one because of market shortages
2) Tom will eventually buy a PS5 when he is able, but still wants to play games coming out
3) Tom buys Horizon:…

Just to be clear, literally nothing here was a defense of Take Two, and I”m not sure why people think it is

“EU courts have already said that when you purchase software, you own it.”

This depends on your definition of ownership. If you own a license to a game, you can play the game. EU courts ruled that can’t be taken away.

But that’s not “ownership” as defined by copyright systems. Ownership means you can literally do…

At no point did I defend Take Two (and I would not). I am specifically talking about the nature of purchasing software, and the legal confusion it creates. It leads to ignorant law makers proposing laws like making violating EULA and ToS a criminal offense (which was actually a proposed law).

I’m just presenting the…

To be clear, I wasn’t implying you hire and lawyer to go over every EULA, and at this point, any nefarious EULA would draw negative attention and hurt product sales, so there is mostly standard language.

I was just clarifying that “buying software” doesn’t give you a right to reverse engineer it, with one legal…

I’m a professor of Software Engineering

When they refer to legally enforceable, it means it’s not a criminal penalty.

You absolutely *can* lose access to software you buy if the company has a reason to do so.

To be clear, this doesn’t happen often because a) if enforcement is costly/difficult, they aren’t going to do it…

Just a quick FYI on software licensing:

You never buy software. You buy a license to use the software. This gets tricky, because even something as simple as an alarm clock, while you own the clock, and all it’s hardware parts, and can do whatever with them (break them, disassemble them, reverse engineer how they were…

Psst...this is a good thing as online monopolies are destroying economic growth in the digital age.

The better thing, of course, would be if start ups were better able to advertise, but the nature of human internet practices (popular choices become more popular) make it untennable.

Still, the more competition, the…

“Also, I’m not sure the taxonomic distinction between trolling and shitposting is as sharp as you think.”

Then you’re wrong

I literally said I got those replies. I have literally got those replies.

And that’s trolling. Shitposting is posting for teh lulz, and usually mocking the thing you are posting about, but it’s doesn’t necessitate trying to generate an over reaction. See shitposting facebooks groups.

You’re a strange person.

Literally every I have shit posted on any article, I get a metric fuck ton of sophomore liberal arts students going on a pages long political rant about how I must obviously be a right-wing nut job.

(it’s a shit post, you don’t need to go on a scree)

Kotaku: *helps fuel tons of drama, openly calling for someone to be fired*

*guy gets fired*

Kotaku: “God, I can’t believe how much drama that guy caused.”