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Fortnite is a service, not a product you can own. It's very much the same as Netflix, Gmail, or Dropbox. Given that, why should it be okay to hack Fortnite, bu
by dxhdr 8y ago
Fortnite is a service, not a product you can own. It's very much the same as Netflix, Gmail, or Dropbox.
Given that, why should it be okay to hack Fortnite, but hacking Netflix or Spotify would be considered criminal behavior?
- hankhill 8y agoexactly. for example, if i download a movie and edit it, then show it to friends, I'm providing a service in the sense you're arguing, but it's covered by first sale doctrine. same with fortnite. just because he's using (sharing) the mod doesn't make him any less protected under law
- tastroder 8y agoThe hacking comparison is a really slippery slope though. As long as I don't harm another actual human there should not be anything wrong with me manipulating how I access a service or how parts of that service behave on my machine. I'm thinking browser extension that alert Gmail for my use cases or alternative clients for hardware a service provider like Netflix or Spotify has no incentive to care about. We should really make it possible to talk about these issues akin to a right to repair for software, not by criminalizing every deviation from the corporate norm as computer misuse or copyright infringements.