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[ANSWERED] What's going on with some person seemingly called "PirateSoftware" and the stop killing games campaign? (lemmy.abnormalbeings.space)

submitted 5 days ago* (last edited 5 days ago) by AbnormalHumanBeing@lemmy.abnormalbeings.space to c/outoftheloop@lemmy.world

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Saw people talking in comments at several places now, expressing animosity towards them to say the least, always presented as something that everyone seems to know about.

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[–] Yermaw@lemm.ee 23 points 5 days ago (13 children)

and also asserts that people who purchase games don't own them

Isn't that a large part of what the petition is aiming for though?

[–] PonyOfWar@pawb.social 57 points 5 days ago (11 children)

To be more clear, PirateSoftware thinks the status quo of only owning a license for a game, which can be revoked at any time, is a good thing that should be kept.

Stop Killing Games would give consumers more rights, which would bring the purchase of a digital game license closer to actual ownership.

[–] 9point6@lemmy.world 41 points 5 days ago* (last edited 5 days ago) (10 children)

PirateSoftware thinks the status quo of only owning a license for a game, which can be revoked at any time, is a good thing that should be kept.

What kind of head injury does one need to sustain to come up with that conclusion

[–] chunkystyles@sopuli.xyz 2 points 4 days ago

The head injury called "privilege".

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