Catch me on the corner selling server.jar out of a long trenchcoat.

Cross-geposted von: https://feddit.org/post/31996415

In a remarkably strange statement at a recent California State Senate hearing over the Protect Our Games Act (AB 1921, California’s Stop Killing Games-endorsed bill to compel publishers to provide ways to keep playing discontinued games), a representative of the Entertainment Software Association declared private servers for the likes of Minecraft and Call of Duty “illegal,” adding that, so far as the ESA is concerned, “we consider it piracy.”

In a statement to PC Gamer, the ESA wrote that, so far as it’s concerned, “Private servers infringe on the intellectual property (IP) rights of game publishers. Publishers reserve the right to exercise their rights against them.”

    • Damage@feddit.itEnglish
      17·
      10 hours ago

      For a moment there I was wondering what was happening on the ISS for ESA to make such a statement

    • CluckN@lemmy.worldEnglish
      8·
      11 hours ago

      I had to google ESA multiple times because I kept getting AI summaries for the space agency.

        • Cocodapuf@lemmy.worldEnglish
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          34 minutes ago

          So Imma be real with you. I switched to DDG full time on all my devices, mostly out of security concerns and the desire to not feed the monopoly.

          That said, DDG is so much worse at finding what I’m actually looking for than Google ever was. It’s a bit frustrating, I have so many reasons to like DDG, but being a good search engine isn’t one of them.

          But for the record, Google isn’t great at finding what I want anymore either, and with its AI bullshit it’s likely to simply lie to me. Really, 2010 Google search is superior to modern Google search by every metric possible, that was peak web search for me.

          • OwOarchist@pawb.socialEnglish
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            24 minutes ago

            Eh, I really haven’t missed it. Google is still there if I really need it … but chances are that if I can’t find it on DDG, I won’t find it on Google either.

        • blitzen@lemmy.caEnglish
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          5 hours ago

          I’m the AI skeptic in my group, but even I use it occasionally for super targeted stuff. It’s pretty good at finding errors in my excel formulas.