Every time you load an app into memory you are making a copy and therefore you are a criminal.
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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.
YoU wOuLdN't DoWnLoAd A kErNeL
That would make a nice shirt
That's your fault for having your own RAM on your own device instead of renting VRAM from cloud services!
(/s, in case anyone didn't pick up on it...)
Don't worry soon no one will be able to afford their own memory and then piracy will be solved forever!
And soon thereafter we see articles of corporations freaking out customers went back to bills on paper in the mail, written cheques, cash deposits and lots of manpower to process everything manually.
Impossible! Everyone has a smartphone with which to download The App:tm: to handle that. The only people who don't have smartphones are actual criminals. There are senators completely ready to endorse this line of thought! Too poor? Nonsense, you're a criminal. Straight to jail.
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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.
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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....
I'm an accomplice to RAM!
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
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I host a server on my home lab and just play solo, all this time I was a criminal and didn't know
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.
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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.”
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Wow, fuck the European Space Agency! >:(
Yea, fuck European Speedrunner Assembly
The European Science Academy did what!?
I can't believe the European Sexhavers Association would do this!
What'd those fuckers do?
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.
How the fuck can Microsoft say that a private Minecraft server is piracy?
Where the fuck did people download the Minecraft server version?
What next, Costco is going to arrest me for ~~trying~~ stealing the free samples?
Microsoft didn't say shit. Some idiot from the ESA did.
Some idiot represents Microsoft as a member of the ESA so Microsoft really should clear this up if they don't want it reflecting badly on them. Of course, that's if they even care and aren't going to use this as backdoor to stop supporting private servers.
Microsoft isn't saying shit now because they want to see how this bullshit pans out.
You can't even get away with a quadruple homicide these days
What has the world come to
unless you're a head of state, then you can kill however many people as you want.
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Wow, an industry advocate organisation saying stuff that just proves they have no idea what the industry is actually doing, or what's actually good for them?
Not really shocked.
Nah they are lobbyists. They know what they are doing. They know that legislators have no clue what it all means and have no time to find out what these lobbyists are saying is true. It’s just typical lawyer talk subterfuge
So .. not ESA, the European Space Agency, founded in 1975 then.
Another day of me wondering what the fuck the Americans are even doing? Like it's completely incomprehensible, it follows no logic.
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ESA can go fuck themselves.
For a moment I was confused because why would the European Space Agency have a problem with Minecraft?
Oh, don't worry, I'm not pirating you shit, I use it to train AI therefore I'm allowed to do whatever I want. It's for AI you see.
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