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   Liam @ GamingOnLinux 🐧🎮 (gamingonlinux@mastodon.social)'s status on Saturday, 02-Dec-2023 09:00:11 JST Liam @ GamingOnLinux 🐧🎮

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   “One thing that we have learned is that piracy is not a pricing issue. It’s a service issue.” - Gabe Newell, Valve, 2011.

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     Liam @ GamingOnLinux 🐧🎮 (gamingonlinux@mastodon.social)'s status on Saturday, 02-Dec-2023 09:00:12 JST Liam @ GamingOnLinux 🐧🎮

     It’s fucking nuts that service providers can just remove your purchases like this without refunds.

     https://www.playstation.com/en-us/legal/psvideocontent/#

     Børge and GreenSkyOverMe (Monika) repeated this.
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     Ari [APz] Sovijärvi (apzpins@mstdn.games)'s status on Saturday, 02-Dec-2023 15:06:27 JST Ari [APz] Sovijärvi

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     @gamingonlinux I think the honeymoon period of digital purchases is over and it's time to get some proper legislation about it. I find it highly misleading to say I'm "purchasing" something, when I'm really getting a temporary license with uncertain expiration date.

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     Jordan Kendrick :freebsd: (jordan_kendrick@fosstodon.org)'s status on Saturday, 02-Dec-2023 16:48:09 JST Jordan Kendrick :freebsd:

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     • Ertain

     @Ertain @gamingonlinux If purchasing isn’t owning, then piracy isn’t stealing.

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     Ertain (ertain@mast.linuxgamecast.com)'s status on Saturday, 02-Dec-2023 16:48:11 JST Ertain

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     @gamingonlinux In this case, piracy may be a necessary evil for watching the lost content.

     Edit: apparently, I struck a nerve with this toot.

     Abolisyonista and Tobias Hellgren repeated this.
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     Tobias Hellgren (thanius@mastodon.chuggybumba.com)'s status on Saturday, 02-Dec-2023 18:53:13 JST Tobias Hellgren

     • Ertain
     • Jordan Kendrick :freebsd:

     @jordan_kendrick @Ertain @gamingonlinux