the question wasn’t whether or not they engaged in dubious practices though. you can be a paragon of righteousness and still have a monopoly over something.

Battle.net didn’t have a storefront until 2013, two years after Skyrim became the first AAA game to launch exclusively on Steam. Steam launched in 2003 and by 2005 was selling games from other developers. Games for Windows didn’t launch until 2007. Stardock only ever sold software published by one corporation.

so yeah, those options didn’t exist for years after Steam, like I said. I appreciate you providing good examples to prove my point tho.

doesn’t look like this one was arson tho. they’re saying one of the sanders accidentally ignited some magnesium dust. that’s what one of the companies in the building works with. there were almost 50 people in the building at the time, so if somebody set fire to it then they would be a pretty shitty person. one of the workers inside ended up in the hospital.

they got there by having the only storefront. by the time alternatives showed up, Steam already had millions of users just from being the only choice for years.

I’m really liking this new spate of violence against capitalists. let’s keep it up!

Copilot is just like me!

The thought process is I don’t pay for things I can get for free.

the meme says that, AFTER they asked. why would they demand she name a song in the first place? what about her made them think she couldn’t?

Is it though?

tell me, looking at the picture, why would the author assume the person pictured wouldn’t know a song from megadeath?

the meme is implying women can’t be real fans.

How’s that working out for you, chief?

it’s working fine. thank you.

the argument you are using enables corporations to steal the work and labour of individuals.

so your problem is with capitalism, and not this fictional “theft” of art.

It is the argument that means only middle class wealthy individuals get to make art.

nobody is stopping anyone from making art.

It’s a shite argument, and it’s been debunked a ton of times.

if that makes you sleep better, then you do you. I don’t really mind if some liberal I’ll never meet wants to claim nonsense that’ll never affect me on the internet. ideas are free, they belong to everyone, and I’ll keep copying and using digital media in whatever way I want.

Well I could have said your post history shows the intellectual subtlety of a three year old child with a sledgehammer, but I don’t like making fun of stupid people when it isn’t their fault they were born idiots.

If only there was some kind of solution to be found.

Says the slopper :slopper:

I know exactly what it means, I was using it sarcastically to make fun of your rather stupid argument.

All AI companies are criminal operations.

Even if someone is being gracious enough to allow you the argument that copying is theft, which it is most assuredly not, it wouldn’t make anything a “criminal operation” because, by law, it isn’t a crime. It is a civil offense.

I love how he sued to keep his name out of the press. He kills a little girl, and thinks he’s the victim.

But surely something has to be said for taking ones work, repackaging it, claiming it’s yours, and selling it as a product, no?

sure, and that something is that copyright and intellectual property is capitalist nonsense. nobody “owns” ideas, and the only ethical issue with AI is that nothing should ever be sold, whether it’s made with AI or not.

here’s another pithy, cliched statement for you. copyright and intellectual property is capitalist nonsense that should be ignored. ideas can’t be owned. what’s yours is mine, and what’s mine is yours. nobody owns any media. the only ethical issue with AI is that nothing should be sold, whether it’s made with AI or not.

you don’t need a subscription to use bittorrent.