• whileloop@lemmy.world
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    1 year ago

    I’d say in your case piracy was 1000% justified. You bought it, you should be able to play it.

    I think piracy is acceptable if one of these two conditions are met:

    • You already own a copy of the game
    • The game is no longer sold as new, such that any legitimate copy would have to be secondhand.
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      1 year ago

      The main problem is the “No end of life plan” issue

      If the software/game/whatever has to call a server to verify itself then when the company goes under or stops supporting it then the software/game/whatever becomes useless without a crack of some kind that may or may not be possible for the layman to implement

      Companies need an end of life plan for their products with DRM

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        1 year ago

        Someone actually emailed Valve about this back in 2013. Here’s their response: https://i.imgur.com/4sa1Ln6.jpg

        Thank you for contacting Steam Support. In the unlikely event of the discontinuation of the Steam network, measures are in place to ensure that all users will continue to have access to their Steam games.

        It seems like Valve wants us to think they have an EoL plan. With the goodwill they’ve built over the years, I want to believe them.

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          Which makes me quite happy, unfortunately they’re the exception rather than the norm

          Not counting GOG though, they’re great with the No DRM thing. It means that they don’t need more of an EoL plan then telling people, “Hey download your installers, we shutting this bitch down in 30 days mother fucker.”