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  • Blue_Morpho@lemmy.worldtomemes@lemmy.worldGabe the GOAT Newell
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    4 days ago

    That is absolutely not true. You sold your game with the key. Nothing about CD keys nor secure rom stopped this. The CD key gave the game the location of the specially stamped spot on the CD to verify it was the original CD. SecureRom kept people from selling copies. It did not stop selling the original.




  • Blue_Morpho@lemmy.worldtomemes@lemmy.worldGabe the GOAT Newell
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    that he got rich doing what he loves

    What he loved doing was taking away consumer rights and pocketing the profit as the one who did it the best. Before Steam, you actually owned your games and could resell them without asking anyone permission. Steam bypassed all copyright laws by saying, “But what if we sold a steam key instead of the game.” It’s the same “It’s not illegal if we do it on a computer” law sidestep that techbros learned from Gabe and copied.

    Before Apple sold restricted ownership music and before Amazon sold restricted ownership books, their was Steam paving the way to our current economy where you own nothing.









  • Blue_Morpho@lemmy.worldtomemes@lemmy.worldOops
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    11 days ago

    We didn’t even need to throw a rock. There’s evidence that early man was a persistence hunter.

    All other animals sprint. But man is the only animal that could jog them to death by jogging and never stopping until the animal collapses from exhaustion.