• Gabadabs@lemmy.blahaj.zone
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      9 hours ago

      Denuvo notably impacts both the performance and long term preservation of games. I imagine many people might buy a game, then download the cracked version without denuvo just for the performance gain.

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      I don’t pirate games, but I also don’t buy games I otherwise would if they have denuvo. Always online DRM punishes paying customers and frustrates game preservation.

      So I’ll cheer every time a Denuvo game gets cracked.

      • ILikeBoobies@lemmy.ca
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        14 hours ago

        It’s such a dumb line, own up to stealing like a badass instead of pussyfooting around the term.

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          14 hours ago

          Don’t blame me because you don’t understand the definition of the word. Try reading the article and actually learning something, instead of deflecting from your ignorance, lol

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            When you don’t pay for rent is it stealing?

            When you rent something and take it over, is it stealing?

            Highlighting the problems with renting something (that it can be taken away) doesn’t change that. And to claim you’re free to steal anything you rent because it’s not really stealing doesn’t give any merit, it just makes you look like a bitch.

            You can assume all closed source software is a rental because you have no idea when it will stop working. The idea that you can reverse engineer it while admirable isn’t realistic for 99% of the population, if it were then there wouldn’t be a reason to have it be closed source.

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              14 hours ago

              we get it: you don’t understand what the word “stealing” means, and making false accusations against me and slinging childish insults won’t distract from the fact that what you’re saying is nonsense, lol

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                14 hours ago

                If you want to get into a debate of copying vs stealing then go ahead but it has nothing to do with the line about “it’s not stealing if you were renting it”

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                  you’re the one who wants to debate anything, and you’re the one who brought up “renting” anything’s when I never mentioned that. once again, demonstrating how you have no clue what you’re talking about - and, obviously, no clue what i’m talking about, lol

                  troll on, troll…

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              13 hours ago

              Your example was paying rent and the quote is about buying. You do know that there’s a difference, right?

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                13 hours ago

                If you read the TOS then you’d see you’re renting the game. Steam can revoke your access.

                Hence how it’s not owned, you’re paying for a period of use.

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                    13 hours ago

                    “grants a license” not “grants ownership”

                    You’re renting it until Steam decides to revoke it. The article talks about these not being owning but you have to know going into it that you’re not buying the product, you’re buying a seat to use the product. That’s renting. You’re paying for access.

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      19 hours ago

      your right, we should’ve been putting that effort into a bad game instead 🙄