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  • grue@lemmy.worldtolinuxmemes@lemmy.worldsudo update oops
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    2 days ago

    No, I would not say that, not even slightly.

    You are absolutely and unambiguously freer to modify and distribute it than you would be if it were left in its default state under copyright law, which is “all rights reserved.”

    Why is this apparently so difficult for you to understand?

    To try to paint the GPL as restrictive is a rapist mentality, where you’re asserting the “right” to violate the rights of others.







  • grue@lemmy.worldtoSolarpunk@slrpnk.netObvious choice
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    First of all, how close is the closest non-super market? I mean, I could say “omg I’ve got to drive 20 miles to get to the nearest Costco” but that doesn’t give me an excuse to pretend the Lidl in walking distance doesn’t exist.

    Second, even if there really isn’t any way to get groceries without driving 25 km, just because some particular town is designed stupidly and lacks necessary services locally now, doesn’t mean it has to be that way in the future. It’s somebody’s fuck-up that needs to be fixed, not an immutable natural law inherent to how small towns work.





  • This would be the only type creative work that would be burdened like this.

    It’s the only type of creative work that needs to be burdened like this, as all other types of works have always been “self-contained” (for lack of a better term) with no continued reliance on the publisher after the purchase.

    Ditto with older games, BTW: you’ll notice that this “Stop Killing Games” movement didn’t start until the game industry started using tactics like DRM and “live service” architectures to forcibly wrest control away from the gamers. Before that, people could just keep playing their cartridges and CDs and even digital downloads, and hosting multiplayer themselves using the dedicated server program included with the game, in perpetuity and everything was just fine.

    The industry got fucking greedy and control-freakish, and this is the inevitable and just attempt for society to hold it accountable.

    I find it paradoxical that we’re trying to save the gaming industry by burdening (mostly) small developers. Larger studio will no longer be able to abuse the system, but complying will be easy for them.

    I find it weird that you’re making what seems to me to be a strawman argument about “burdening (mostly) small developers,” as I’d say they are mostly not the ones trying to do this bullshit where they try to retroactively destroy art and culture because it stops being profitable enough. Indie studios typically don’t design their games to use publisher-operated servers with ongoing costs attached in the first place, let alone to self-destruct when they shut off!