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   @f5dce68e49a6bdbafa7e11a42f3bbe5bcc21e071531375d886d3bba92399fcbb @lewdthewides I think the metric of "working well" here is being relatively non obtrusive (acceptably low performance degradation/iops wear) for paying customers as well as supporting Linux without issue. And while, yes, Denuvo can (with great difficulty) be cracked, nowadays it most often isn't. I'm basically totally opposed to it on principle alone (and especially Sega's usage of it in particular), but I'm not going to pretend it's something it isn't.
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     @lispi314 @lewdthewides @f5dce68e49a6bdbafa7e11a42f3bbe5bcc21e071531375d886d3bba92399fcbb the same way any kind copy protection can be justified from a cost/benefit pov, lost sales
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     LisPi (lispi314@udongein.xyz)'s status on Sunday, 07-Jul-2024 10:17:24 JST LisPi

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     @allison @f5dce68e49a6bdbafa7e11a42f3bbe5bcc21e071531375d886d3bba92399fcbb @lewdthewides > Imagine having a worse performance story as a paying customer than randos
     How is that not seen as a joke in very bad taste?
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     @lispi314 @lewdthewides @f5dce68e49a6bdbafa7e11a42f3bbe5bcc21e071531375d886d3bba92399fcbb yeah from a user perspective things are different, the simple solution from the user perspective is to just not support anything using denuvo and that's the option I've elected to take
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     LisPi (lispi314@udongein.xyz)'s status on Sunday, 07-Jul-2024 10:20:39 JST LisPi

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     @allison @f5dce68e49a6bdbafa7e11a42f3bbe5bcc21e071531375d886d3bba92399fcbb @lewdthewides Except that as a user, I give no flying fuck about your sales.
     
     I care that I'm being disrespected and told to pay for the privilege of it.
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     LisPi (lispi314@udongein.xyz)'s status on Sunday, 07-Jul-2024 11:53:12 JST LisPi

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     @allison @f5dce68e49a6bdbafa7e11a42f3bbe5bcc21e071531375d886d3bba92399fcbb @lewdthewides We really ought to classify it as destruction of cultural material to not release the source of programs once they become abandonware.
     
     For similar reasons to those mentioned in that longass "Games as a Service is fraud" video.
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     @lispi314 @lewdthewides @f5dce68e49a6bdbafa7e11a42f3bbe5bcc21e071531375d886d3bba92399fcbb at the very least, reverse engineering such programs by methods such as decompilation and distributing the results should be completely legal