som33

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by som33 6y ago
You're clueless, it is directly relevant, you said "copyright laws are neither moral or immorral" which is a bs statement because every rule (which it is) has political consequences, you need a giant state to declare "s
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by som33 6y ago
>Capitalism isn't really a political system, even though people seem to elevate it to one. It is you need a giant violent state to create a culture of sophisticated property rights. AKA capitalism requires a state and legal system,
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by som33 6y ago
>I want an economy where we can celebrate automation and distribute the profits evenly. Not going to happen under capitalism. Look at the numbers, they are pretty horrifying. https://whorulesamerica.ucsc.edu/power/im
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by som33 6y ago
No, they are not clueless, they've been stealing software since the late 90's with mmo's. They wouldn't be celebrating your cluelessness, they are talking about a "revolution", aka a revolution in the publics c
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by som33 6y ago
Software is largely enormous margin in an era of increasing drm and encryption because they can delay piracy indefinitely like on mobile with client-server gacha games. Check out the revenue for mobile, it's insane because it preys on
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by som33 6y ago
Subscription software is just a way to fleece gullible people, most software before mass internet penetration allowed stealing software (I refuse to call software as a subscription a rational thing for 99% of software). Is just a way for co
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by som33 6y ago
>It's not governed by economics. Except economics as you are taught it is bullshit, the rich have always taken state subsidies regardless of "economics". https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WHj2GaPuEhY
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by som33 6y ago
They fear AI because they are misprojecting their animal psychology onto something that did not undergo any kind of evolutionary process. AKA if we build AI it will be "like us" it will reason like a human being would, rather than
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by som33 6y ago
It was the days where people owned their own software and DRM had not made it's way into games, since the internet has enabled PC game theft on a massive scale, by valve, ea and activision. OS/2 was an alternative Operating system
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by som33 6y ago
Just go to ">>" and the "browse hierarchy of tags" The menu buttons have tool tips.
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by som33 6y ago
>Selling proprietary software for money is a lot less immoral than using free software to sell user data for money Except you're wrong, it's the fact we never got property rights and software became licensed to begin with. We
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by som33 6y ago
You should check out sygyt.com and get a copy of Voce Vista video. They have a frequency analyzer that's great for looking at your voice output and comparing it against notes. https://www.sygyt.com/en/ There'
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by som33 6y ago
>Clearly you have strong views on this, so how would you resolve the impasse in a way that better respects the rights of consumers without obliterating all viable business models for creators? The creators need to get fucked because pira
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by som33 6y ago
American IP law was alway writtein in a one sided way to deny ownership rights to the general public, what about big media and game companies lobbying away the public domain? So I won't feel anything for people like you and your pro dr
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by som33 6y ago
Not going to happen unless we get property rights to software. As long as software is "licensed", we no longer own our machines. Battle.net DRM, Steam, EPIC, uplay, origin, are all bids to lock down software. Without property rig
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by som33 6y ago
You don't get the end game was to client-server the big budget games which has happened. AKA diablo 1 + 2 we owned the game outright, not so with diablo 3 and overwatch. Steam was forced into half-life/cs in 2004, no one wanted i
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by som33 6y ago
>Interesting that the meme that games are ST bound persists when that hasn’t been the case for several years Except you don't get that it's not a meme, ideally CPU's were expected to scale into the 10-30Ghz range, that nev
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by som33 6y ago
>It's actually going to be a great era for consumers. It's actually NOT, AMD, Intel, MS and big media companies are planning to put hardware DRM inside the computer. The last 23 years of PC gaming we've seen the PC become
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by som33 6y ago
It's because the internet has given control of software to companies. Pre 2005 the only control game companies had over software was a few PC RPG's that had been rebranded mmo. In an internet enabled world, every game can be mad
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by som33 6y ago
A CD based Sega system was a great idea but not as an add on, the reality is the cost of hardware back then and the nature of the console market being technology illiterate was the issue. I was one of the few who got the original Sega CD, t
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by som33 6y ago
>I honestly fail to see any good reason not to use the cloud anymore, at least for business. Cost-wise, security-wise, whatever-wise. Problem is point of failure, many businesses need to be independent and having data stored in the cloud
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by som33 6y ago
You can be told the facts and the figures and not reason to the right conclusion, see the science: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PYmi0DLzBdQ
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by som33 6y ago
>This might be a super dumb question, but are super computers worth it? Yes, because that's where you get innovation in architecture. You have to understand the reason commodity hardware caught up supercomputers was because of gett
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by som33 6y ago
> I see year after year, decade after decade that they keep being discussed, with the same points being made over and over again. Is there a name for these? Because human beings don't see reality accurately, see the science: https:
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by som33 6y ago
First, I can tell you the facts and you won't reason to the right conclusion, see the science: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PYmi0DLzBdQ And no, gamers can't "Steal" files, since the nature of comptuer
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by som33 6y ago
The reason is they've been stealing games since 1997 with UO, that was the plan. For those of us who remember kali and kahn IPX emulation over the early internet that allowed us to play warcraft 2, doom, descent, duke 3d, etc. The int
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by som33 6y ago
It's almost like humanity is too stupid to understand when you buy criminally coded stolen software as a service, you will get screwed. The fact that parts of the OS functionality are living on some remote server is a sign of idiocracy
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by som33 6y ago
>This is my biggest pet peeve with news in general. Why does a high school paper have more rigor in terms of citations than the average post from a major news organization? Because news is not meant to inform, it's meant to indoctri
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by som33 6y ago
I wonder how much self deception exists in western society when the evidence suggests you live in a lawless oligarchy, one example from endless copyright extension. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Copyright_Term_Extension
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by som33 6y ago
Trying to conflate arcade games with games you software you buy are non comparable, trying to justify theft of software when the population clearly doesn't want drm or authoritarian software as a service models. Steam would have never

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