Cross-geposted von: https://feddit.org/post/31996415

In a remarkably strange statement at a recent California State Senate hearing over the Protect Our Games Act (AB 1921, California’s Stop Killing Games-endorsed bill to compel publishers to provide ways to keep playing discontinued games), a representative of the Entertainment Software Association declared private servers for the likes of Minecraft and Call of Duty “illegal,” adding that, so far as the ESA is concerned, “we consider it piracy.”

In a statement to PC Gamer, the ESA wrote that, so far as it’s concerned, “Private servers infringe on the intellectual property (IP) rights of game publishers. Publishers reserve the right to exercise their rights against them.”

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    People have gotten stupid because billionaires have orchestrated the gutting of education and people are too exhausted, not “lazy”, because they’re overworked by billionaires.

    Capitalism is always the problem. Okay, very rarely organized religion or genuine natural disasters, but almost always capitalism.

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        23 hours ago

        It’s not warming the planet so it’s definitely a backseat evil right now

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            Sure they do, but if you think they’re actually Christian more than they’re capitalist, you aren’t paying attention.

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              They are their own breed of Christian but that doesnt change the fact that religion has its play in global warming. You also have evangelicals who think allowing the world to fall apart will bring the rapture so they can all just go to heaven with their sky daddy. Then you also have the ones who dont think they should be changing anything because its all a part of God’s plan. Relgion has a major play in the warming of the planet to think otherwise is very daft.