Let it ring out once more: -Backing up your games is not piracy. -Archiving backups is not piracy. -Enabling installs from backups is not piracy. When the content distribution system is nuked, legitimate purchasers are only able to access their purchases via hacking.https://twitter.com/imranzomg/status/1088229290708164609 …
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Also: -when there is no legal sales mechanism, drm becomes a universal lock DRM is a direct affront to the preservation of culture. Pirates, crack developers, and archivists have become the de-facto librarians of society.
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The moment the DMCA took effect, we legitimized the corporate demonization of those who legally worked to preserve culture. In a world where culture is changing more and more rapidly, and content is easy to forget about or lose, preservation is necessary, even if illegal.
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And yet if you enable installs from backups (esp. within a system's normal lifetime) 90%+ of people will use it for piracy. I agree with everything you said. I'm just venting out my frustration at this dilemma :(
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Of course the obvious answer to this that would solve all problems is to shorten copyright to something reasonable (5-10 years should do it), then everything exceeding that age is fair game to hack.
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