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[-] reverendsteveii@lemm.ee 6 points 4 months ago

I love this thing where buying something has been replaced by buying an alterable, revokable license to access that thing. It lowers costs and adds flexibility for producers, which allows them to save money, and they pass that savings on to me in the form of higher prices and my shit that I paid real fucking money for just disappearing one day. Then they explain that I never really "owned" it despite the fact that they use the word "own" in the marketing material, because it's also legal to use words that have known definitions in agreements and then later explain that you were actually using an entirely different, secret definition of that word that's actually the opposite of what you very purposefully implied.

[-] reverendsteveii@lemm.ee 4 points 4 months ago

"274"

wait, shit....

[-] reverendsteveii@lemm.ee 26 points 4 months ago

can confirm. source: did this 3 separate times

[-] reverendsteveii@lemm.ee 46 points 4 months ago

even then, it's essentially paywalling your rights. you need to go to court, wait for the matter to be adjudicated, hope it works out in your favor, run out any potential appeals, all while paying attorneys and not being able to do something you're legally entitled to do. If you can't do all that, then your rights are moot.

[-] reverendsteveii@lemm.ee 17 points 4 months ago

which tv manufacturer was it that updated their eula and if you didn't agree it bricked your tv?

[-] reverendsteveii@lemm.ee 4 points 4 months ago

I can't help but think that if this sort of thing proliferates that it will essentially hamstring reviews. This particular agreement might be just because the game is in alpha, but it's part of a broader trend of ToS/EULA wishlists that are so restrictive that they're probably illegal already buy in order to test that you have to go to court against a huge, overpaid legal team which leads to people having their basic rights violated.

[-] reverendsteveii@lemm.ee 9 points 4 months ago

I WAS THE FIRST TO ADD A 9 TO A C NOW EVERY ACOUSTIC COVER FROM 1988 TO 2004 OWES ME $6

[-] reverendsteveii@lemm.ee 48 points 4 months ago

Sexual assault victims have a time limit. Copyright infringement "victims" do not. Tracks.

[-] reverendsteveii@lemm.ee 2 points 4 months ago

not my experience at all across 3 separate companies. Ime senior engineers are the highest level that still spends most of the day heads down most days, and that's why I'm gonna stick it out at this level as long as I can.

[-] reverendsteveii@lemm.ee 5 points 4 months ago

your company has money for no one above mid-level engineers to be actually building the product?

[-] reverendsteveii@lemm.ee 52 points 4 months ago

rules aren't there to be enforced, they're there so that when you break them you take a second to think about why.

[-] reverendsteveii@lemm.ee 1 points 4 months ago

you think that I'm in favor of everything I'm not currently talking about?

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