copyright and all of intellectual property was meant to “promote the progress of science and useful arts”—it has since eroded it and held it up for ownership by capitalists public domain was originally 14 years after publication. 14 years ago was 2010—imagine if everything before 2010 was in the public domain. All video games. All movies. All books, songs, etc. How much of our culture could be preserved? Compare that to now. How much of what you imagined is owned by a corporation? Managed by shareholders? Has the commons been fostered, or has it been divided into fiefdoms?

we also should be supporting open source games—if it’s open source, it’s preservable! these people are already essentially giving up any revenue just to make something for someone else, we should be lifting them up, too!

These guys are literally the bottom of the totem poll (none of them are managers etc), there’s a reason theres a players union

They’re rich, but they ain’t likely upper class

Can we not shift this from the very important issue of how stupid this streaming situation is into the much less important, albeit still valid, “one rich athlete spends slightly less than his fair share in this one instance”—no one is defending this guy because he’s rich, only because it’s the irony of the situation

The more people who pirate, the better. It doesn’t matter who as long as everyone is getting away with it equally

Who are they stealing my personal data from, corporation?? Are they stealing it from me or from you??

The only other legal option is to cede console porting to someone else. This is the best option, legally.

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Name one statically typed language that doesn’t have that property. Name one non statically typed language that has that property.

All static typing means is that types don’t change, eg you can’t declare a var as a string and later assign a number to it.

People don’t understand that JIT languages are still compiled, JIT literally describes when it’s compiled.

That said, F# and/or OCaml.

Lethal company is literally just old school d&d tho

You go into dungeons, try to avoid all the monsters because they can kill you in one hit, get the treasure they protect and gold is xp.

cc-by-sa is copyleft

In a capitalist economy copyright is meant to protect people’s livelihoods by ensuring they are compensated for their labor

Whose propaganda did you suck down blindly? Copyright is meant to foster and improve the commons and public domain, and only that. The goal of copyright is not “money” and monopolies, but that’s what capitalism does to things designated as property.

The fact you can transfer and sell your copyright (because it’s property in capitalism), it becomes a commodity to be bought and sold and traded. If copyright was not tradeable or transferable, we wouldn’t be in in this situation where art is property to be owned.

all D&D movies ever will be bad ig

That won’t put butts in seats in theaters to make up for the money being invested. Microsoft wants a new generation of kid money.

People need to wake up to the fact that these movies are ads to sell shit. This is an ad to sell Minecraft to a new generation in of kids. Why in the world do you think they keep rebooting movies that’s made for kids like Star Wars and Transformers? Because they sell toys to kids.

So, why Minecraft movie? You admit the stats yourself: they need a new generation of kids to like Minecraft to sell Minecraft branded shit. They don’t even have to play the fuckin game as long as they’re paying for cheap branded clothing and plastic and skins for kids to show off to their friends what brand represents their personality the best.

People don’t understand: we already outlawed “theft” and “stealing”—we wouldn’t need COPYright laws if they prevented theft or stealing 😂 they only prevent copying, aka not theft or stealing.

But people keep strawmanning “stealing is bad mmkay???”

The kids are alright

I’m not sure how you can look at hundreds of years of IP laws getting btfo by pirates and say the ship is sinking 😂

I’m sorry, but until you can somehow answer the question of “how to make people avoiding laws impossible?” without causing a revolution, there will be laws avoided by people

No laws have ever stopped people from getting what they want. Games will be made by those who hate IP laws and be played by those who seek it. Will that scene be a trillion dollar industry backed by governments and international corporations like the AAA scene is today? Probably not. Will a punk indie scene exist? Of course.

Every popular entertainment medium that has a giant industry will see these same results as well. Movies, books, music, etc. As long as the medium is popular, it will persist outside of IP laws.

Thom has a point about Trump and not playing in America. Personally I’d rather see more people boycott America.