It’s thankfully far easier and less dangerous than the limewire days of yore, and no VPN required as long as you stream it instead of plundering the booty to your cargo hold ^^

Yar harr fiddeldy dee, matey 🏴‍☠️

On a completely unrelated note, have you ever looked at the communities on https://lemmy.dbzer0.com/ ?

I understand, but I’m not really sure why you’re pointing out the exact problem that this campaign is actively trying to solve.

MS-DOS games are pretty much what GOG built their business on, they still sell quite well. 50’s music is still listened by many (over 57 million views on that one song alone), and often used in movies, though that’s a bit of an odd comparison, almost as if old things aren’t worth keeping around. I mean, people still listen to classical music that’s hundreds of years old at this point, read ancient stories, and look at art from artists long dead. I consider games to be an art form like any other, and worth preserving.

Here’s a link to the Stop Killing Games campaign, of which the video is about.

As the graph breaks down, some games are patched by companies to allow them to function offline or to enable self-hosted servers. Mostly its fan efforts to reverse engineer the server code, though.

The point of the stop killing games campaign is to legislate by law that going forward, developers/publishers would have to account for a way to allow the player to host a server or patch the game to run offline when they become unprofitable and are shut down.

3 people may be enough, believe it or not. It wouldn’t hurt to toss 'em an email and see what they suggest. With a company that small, it’s likely they’d take you on.

Honestly, it sounds like you could use a union. If you have a good relationship with your coworkers, you may want to contact the IWW and see what they make of your situation.

Perhaps Wallabag, a self-hostable service to save and categorize articles?

Also @[email protected] and @[email protected]

Too late.

Too bad it’s being actively killed by Google. :(

That does seem to be an influence, though oddly there are some modern wildly popular games, Minecraft being a prime example, that still allow you to self host your own server, so it shouldn’t really be as foreign of a concept as it appears to be to some younger folk.

I think the issue is that, as with reddit, a lot of people are only reading the headline and commenting.

AFAIK, most PS3 (and even PS4) / Xbox 360 games will play and function with just the disc, an internet connection will just let them download updates to the game.

It was PS5 and Xbox One where the discs became glorified physical download codes, and did not actually contain the entire game.

It doesn’t sound like it was as of 2020 in the US, at least on the good/service distinction:

The creator of the Stop Killing Games campaign did a segment about the viability of fighting it in the US in a segment here: https://youtu.be/DAD5iMe0Xj4?t=1097

tl:dr, the motivated lawyer he talked with on it eventually found a court case that set a precedent that would be extremely difficult to fight in such a pro-corporate court system without extreme amounts of legal funds. This is why the Stop Killing Games campaign is focusing on implementing laws in the EU and other non-US countries.

And Isaac Asimov’s The Feeling of Power, a short story about a man who can do mathematics in his head, a skill long forgotten after computers do all calculations for humanity.

I think I’d only seen him in less serious roles before this, he really nailed it here.

God dang it libraries kick ass. Cheers for mentioning Hoopla! :D

Unfortunately, I think it was just a lack of awareness that the petition in existed in certain countries where Ross just didn’t have enough reach, possibly due to language barriers. A big push from native speakers of those countries with large audiences, like streamers, could’ve pushed it over the edge.

I dearly wish we had better public transport as well.

But in the event that it does not improve, either due to lack of political will or other reasons, that’d pretty much leave us with making collective personal choices as the only viable option again, whether or not internal combustion vehicles are banned.