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What good is a console that makes piracy trivial and even advertises this as a feature?
by beefhash 7y ago
What good is a console that makes piracy trivial and even advertises this as a feature?
- idle_zealot 7y agoWriting and playing games targeting a common runtime?
- cableshaft 7y agoMaybe one where you don't have to sell games, you do it for fun? People do that, you know. The Pico-8 fantasy console also makes piracy trivial (you have the full source code available for each game) and yet it has a lot of good games made for it. Way back in the days of Compuserve I used to download Q-Basic games, which was just the source code file you ran in the compiler, and could change whatever you wanted, and that helped get me into programming in the first place by examining how actual programs worked, so there's a real world use case for making "piracy trivial". That was also how most people learned how to do HTML/CSS and basic Javascript back in the day, was right clicking and checking the source code. It's technically still possible now but most websites have become a mess of monolithic scripts or obfuscated code so it's less useful now.
- bovermyer 7y agoThis console is a toy, something to play with, something fun. If you think anyone concerned with piracy is going to care about this, then perhaps you are thinking about the wrong sorts of problems.