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What you’re saying is lemmy.ml and others like it are in cahoots with the Epstein class..?

Not really important tbh. Ownership is only relevant in a society of scarcity. And games are infinitely copiable, thus the opposite of scarce.

I’m more in favor of collectivization, as in archives of games free to download, maintained by open projects and donations, stuff like that.

I saw something really interesting the other day…

In our society, being good or bad depends on your net worth. If you’re rich, you are good. If you’re poor you’re bad.

Poor people know they can’t be good by being rich. They actually never even interact with actual rich people. Classes don’t really interact with each other in our society.

But what they get access to is the rich man’s ideology. Or what they think rich people are (what they actually see is the petit bourgeoisie, the lower capitalist class. Their bosses are the lower rung of the capitalists. Or the upper rung of the working class. Small business owners, management etc).

But the poor can at least be on the same team as the rich, fight for the same things, and in that way at least be on the “good side”.

They try to approximate goodness by ideology. They try to get closer to “good” by fighting in the name of the “good people”.

Then of course the actual rich people defend capitalism because it’s beneficial to them, materially.

I think I know what you mean, I also feel a bit “mandela-ed” with this tbh. I do remember quite vividly that the DPRK didn’t have nukes. Like at least until Trump 1. But idk, in this reality they do lol 🤷‍♂️

They all say that, but look at the DPRK… no one has even mentioned invading or “annihilating” them ever since they got their nukes.

Trump literally admitted he would’ve never attacked Iran if they had nukes. He basically told the world “get nukes as fast as possible or I’m gonna invade you next!”.

I recommend the videos by Eyes Wide Open as well, specially on the Dulles era of the CIA and the OSS.

You don’t think their main source of income was ever consumer-grade memory… do you?

It’s always been servers and business customers.

Bro wishing physical games kept existing is infinitely more pie-in-the-sky than continuing supporting archiving and piracy projects…

And my point is it’s not about owning at all. I don’t see any of the stuff I download as “mine”. I have access to it. But how can you have property over something that can be infinitely copied? How can you own something infinite?

Don’t you guys see that this “ownership” thing is a scam? Set-up by the people in power? The only real meaningful ownership here is their ownership of all gaming developers and publishers.

I dream of a world without anti-piracy laws where old games are simply publicly available for all. We have different ideas of what the problem is here.

Physical media that exists for games doesn’t last so if it’s not constantly produced it will just decay in a few years.

Legislation should allow game archiving (pirating) and archivists should work to find a way to best keep the games. If thats physically somehow, sure. But I doubt it. Games are digital.

There’s basically no serious longterm digital data archiving that is kept in discrete physical media.

Also, individual ownership is not the right way to solve this. These things should be publicly available for all, not kept private by a few people.