So … not ESA, the European Space Agency, founded in 1975 then.
Wow, fuck the European Space Agency! >:(
Yea, fuck European Speedrunner Assembly
The European Science Academy did what!?
I host a server on my home lab and just play solo, all this time I was a criminal and didn’t know
What is the context here? Meme with no article or explanation of what is going on.
when you find out please let me know too
There are other news links, but this is one I found on the front page, for context: https://lemmy.world/post/48906051?scrollToComments=true
TL;DR: Apparently ESA is calling private servers “illegal.”
The article mentions “Electronic Software Association”, but that does not appear to be a thing? The logo above appears to be from “Entertainment Software Association” which is… what they mean or no?
You and me both. Hell mine is even modded with the phoning home patched out.
modded mc is low key the best factory game I’ve ever played
Try out Vintage Story. Once you find the chisel, you’ll never look back.
That looks insane
It’s hours of good fun. I’m chiseling a LARGE statue of Azura out of white marble.
Every time you load an app into memory you are making a copy and therefore you are a criminal.
Don’t worry soon no one will be able to afford their own memory and then piracy will be solved forever!
I’m an accomplice to RAM!
This is the future that capitalists want. When you can no longer afford components because they hoarded them all, you will have to rent computers from their cloud. Dont worry? It’s all real and legal because it’s justified by the humungous next step in humanity known as AI which was so important that we had to buy up all the computing resources. It’s so good guys it’s important that none of you be able buy any computers that you can use without the supervision of the AI cloud services. Trust us.
Streaming high performance applications such as games is now a public health concern as local compute contributes to heat generation in urban areas.
Public fountains and cooling centers will be decommissioned and a daytime water use ban will be in effect to ensure essential data services stability.
Due to extreme heat citizens are urged to avoid outdoor activity during daylight hours.
This is the “theory” by which publishers try to justify the validity of EULAs (they argue: “buying the thing isn’t enough; you need to agree to this to be able to actually use it”).
But, fun fact: copyright law has a specific carve-out for that incidental copy, 17 USC §117 (a) (1), which means EULAs offer no ‘consideration’ and are therefore bunk.
I agree, but that’s not how I’d imagine the courts would see it? If the EULA says that you don’t own the computer program, you’re just paying for a license to use it, then you’re not really “the owner of a copy of a computer program”…
YoU wOuLdN’t DoWnLoAd A kErNeL
That would make a nice shirt
POLICE!!! PUT DOWN THAT COMPUTER AND NOBODY NEEDS TO GET HURT!!!
HE’S COMING RIGHT FOR US! SIR PUT DOWN THE COMPUTER… SIR… I AM AUTHORIZED TO USE LETHAL FORCE…
i’m not hhhhoollng a ccccomputer…
Why does an ESA even exist? They are literally being the fun police.
They run E3. Oh wait that died.
They run ESRB and rate games. Not that anyone pays attention.So that pretty much leaves their extensive lobbying efforts on behalf of the largest publishers in favor of more copyright law and such.
Because otherwise the government is going to create a fun police.
The ATF already exists
An industry body with no authority to do anything said a thing that goes explicitly against its members stances.
Well, not all of its members.
She’s just saying the quiet part out loud: they’re selling us out
For a moment I was confused because why would the European Space Agency have a problem with Minecraft?
The only reason they say this is almost certainly because they have a plan to start moving that direction. So a shadow of things to come. Like when I whip it out in front of a single-point light source.
The way I see it is “You’re so lucky Microsoft doesn’t come down on you like a cat in a rat’s nest”
