As a dad of two young boys, this drives me crazy. Just fucking live and don’t hurt anyone. Nothing else. You want to play Tetris? Fucking play it until your fingers bleed. You want to ride your bike? Ride it. I will never understand people’s need to downplay a kid’s (or an adult’s) passions. My parents had me second…

When asked for a response they replied

I'm in the U.K. This still has the unpleasant whiff of money about it.

That is in no way a fitting punishment for the crime of “hacking” companies that should already have had better systems in place. Does he not have any family, is house arrest not an option? 

One of those “pretend not to know what the author is referring to when they use common industry parlance that refers to a specific business model, so that I can act superior and impart useless information that is irrelevant to the topic at hand” statements...lmao

We didn’t used to refer to any online game as a “live service” though. There’s a difference between a multiplayer game where they have to keep the servers running and maybe occasional balance updates and fixes, and one that has regular new content, microtransactions, battle passes, etc. It’s still technically a “live…

Articles and attention like this are the reason scams like this bring success to the scammers. Every person on Earth who has followed this game knew it was a disaster. Yet a few hours after release and Steam already has 4,000 verified purchases of folks who have taken the time to write a (negative) review.

I still buy physical media all the time. WB can delist Goodfellas off of Max so they can license it out to another service for a few months, but they can’t delist my anniversary Blu-Ray off my shelf!

Torrenting can't be stealing if paying for it isn't owning.

Contracts don't make them immune to legal action. It just makes things more complicated 

I was gonna say how many people actually bought this content, obviously there are affected consumers, but for real, who’s actually buying these shows?

I never stopped collecting those.  I’m glad people are finally starting to realize that physical media isn’t as irrelevant as most people think, though.  

Or buy it physical in the first place and rip it to something like Plex for the sake of convenience.

I’ll just outright say it: you’re trying to say piracy. If you buy something digitally, it seems like you should be justified in retaining a backup copy for this very reason.

Yup. I mean, partly 4k streaming is worse than regular 1080p bluray disks, due to bitrate restrictions, and 4k blurays are just legions better, but more importantly, companies are just terrible at dealing with their digital libraries. I’ve been swooping in on essentially every cheap 4k sale to make sure I’m not losing…

Something something high seas, something something torrent.

I bet they will be. Its a classic class action suit and I don’t see how you couldn’t win.

They really should be taken to court for this. Licenses expiring is a common thing in digital distribution. The solution is to pull the licensed content from the store, not user libraries. That’s been the standard practice for games, I don’t see why it should be any different for movies or TV shows.

This is one of the many reasons I’ve started collecting blu-rays and 4k discs in 2023. 

Funny you think Kotaku will be up in a year.