• Gormadt
    2•1 year ago

    DRM isn’t evil, it’s just it’s current implementations and the fact that when the software is abandoned companies don’t remove it. There’s no end of life plan for their software

    Also some forms in the past have been straight up evil.

    I’ll never forget sending a letter to a dev because I lost their code wheel for a game I owned and they sent a letter back telling me to buy the game again ‡

    I’d say that was my first step towards piracy

    ‡ Before anyone asks: No I don’t remember what game it was for or what company I sent it to, that was decades ago.

    • @whileloop
      5•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.
      • Gormadt
        2•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