... since it now doesn't matter since most developer and Microsoft and tech industry in general are pushing towards locked down computing. We're seeing the final push with windows 10+. They have already lawyered it and planted bombs in it to death anyway, there's no way publishers are going to go back to giving gamers full control of the software. We've seen the big final push from Ubisoft with the latest assasins creed and Microsoft has a huge streaming project they are working on, while releasing seriously hostile coded UWP games. This is a far cry from the 90's where we had the raw files because there was no internet they could use to steal pieces of files and game code to prevent gamers from owning nad controlling their software.
The last 20 years have been a real revolution for developers and publishers to get rid of game ownership by being able to not give the complete game to gamers because their customers can't reach them. The attack on game ownership began with ultima series back in the 90's as all PC rpg's in development were relabelled mmo's and moved over to server locked pieces of software, undermining control and the privacy of gamers as the gullible masses ate it up because they are clueless. The rise of steam, mmo's and f2p games are proof we live in an idiocracy.
Then today we have overwatch who's entire content is already on your machine but has a lootbox interface for you to gamble to 'set a flag to view the file contents' if you can't wait because they know the average gamer is a fucking computer illiterate moron.
Experiments with sports like Virtual paintball, I would go develop vr helmets specifically for paintball.
Why would anyone go outside to play virtual paintball if they can just play real paintball? That marker and paintballs don't cost nearly as much as a specialized paintball VR headset.
The point being you can come up with tech that simulates getting hit without the mess, aka no possible injuries. It was just an example of an outside game. I know many of my ideas are not "the best", the point is to search for things that get us away from sitting down all the time. That is where I see VR / augmented reality being useful. So there is lots of trial and error involved. That being said, for something like paintball you wouldn't need a high rez display, you'd be using augmented reality headset so the the graphical horsepower would be a minimum. You may be misunderstanding the paintball application, I'm talking about trasnparent glasses that overlay graphics on top of the real world.
... VR's killer app has not been realized by these big companies, they are obsessed with creating AAA experiences instead of focusing on making cheap low fidelity augmented reality type glasses which are MUCH CHEAPER to produce and have a wider range of applications. If I was involved at occulus or valve I would slap the management (gabe at valve) upside the head to get them to see - the killer app for VR is to get people outside and moving instead of sitting down in front of a screen, aka use the headset to actually aid people to do things while on the move.
Things like:
-Being able to play slow turn based games via onboard flash and/or streamed wifi (low fi version of civ either on semi-streamed onto local flash memory streamed via wireless, should be doable).
-Experiments with sports like Virtual paintball, I would go develop vr helmets specifically for paintball. Do any does anyone remember captain power and the soldiers of the future?
-Experiments in extremely lightweight and low fi augmented reality tech for navigating stuff like super markets, etc, connected via your phone aka "where is , or where is " but filled in via google like complete in real time.
-Experiments in augmented reality overlay games played outside on real terrain, aka imagine having a virtual mariokarts painted on the roads around you when you are out walking/jogging/biking driving, aka I'd get these companies to go to test tracks to work out the details and what "real games" are viable/not dangerous and when and where to engage in this of course, where you are a participant in said race/game.
... then you need to get them close to the metal but make it less tedious. For instance, I would have them start with modified assembly language that was based on research, with libraries that gave kids a leg up to do cool things quickly (aka make little games, etc).
The problem with learning how computers work, it's often divorced from what kids want to use it for, aka learning for most kids will always be grunt work so you should tap into what they'd like to make the computer do and their natural curiousity and make it easier for them, kids will find a way to the goal if you setup a course specifically designed to tap into their own curioustiy and ambition - aka you have to make the grind worth the effort, otherwise kids won't be able to sustain the boring parts. You need to create a virtuous cycle of feedback that's usually difficult except for the truly gifted among us like the John carmacks of the world of Quake fame.
First we need to stop thinking of these businesses as job creators. The pizza joint is NOT the job creator.
You have it ass backwards, today companies manufacture wants via advertising for shit people largely don't need. They have an army of psychologists and scientists trying to get you addicted to their product. The average consumer is NOT savvy, one only needs to take a look at the numbers. There are 43 million people in poverty.
... you can bet companies will still fight tooth and nail to get around this shit. Just like now game companies can take advantage of mass public ignorance and high speed internet to legally reclassify all new games as "services". Just as with the new Assasins creed because they control the software from the point of production and their customers are 100's of miles away.
News flash: Android is just another Linux distro. Maybe not GNU/Linux but a Linux nevertheless.
Man you really are a fucking moron, Android is linux no doubt about it, but it's a fucking closed platform. That releases software you don't own or control.
Except the number one OS (linux, it all it's variations) is very much not in the single controlled hands of a corporation.
Sure, we can say, hey the masses won, let's stop fighting and join the sheep or go live on a deserted island or you can try to create some change. You can start by doing small things (like getting your friends to move to Signal instead of Whatsapp) and try to educate them.
But of course you can always roll over and keep on complaining.
Ahh yes the linux idealists, you're out of your mind if you think linux can replace windows. Windows as an OS is basically a utility because everyone and their mother develops for it. I'm sure all the cool kids will stop playing gacha mobile games on android/smartphones, stop playing mmo's and "live service based" games like Assassins creed just to jump to linux.
Sorry to tell ya but linux ever wants to break out it's minority it's going to have to software everyone watns to use for it being made for it by billion dollar companies.
Actually I KNOW SEMATECH had a lot of problems getting formed in the first place.
And thank you for snipping out half a statement.
Pretty sure the U.S. government wouldn't look too kindly on what would essentially be the creation of a trust to monopolize a market, or maybe they would times aren't what they used to be.
Yes and you missed the point about massive state intervention and protectionism having always existed. The idea that the US cares about monopoly is laughable, they have a lawless out of control oligarchy. The videogame industry is a case in point. All big tech companies are basically stealing software from their customers because their customers are 100's of miles away. AKA "DRM" and "games as services" all came to be because what is the average consumer going to do when the company is 100 miles away, and they can now just keep the software they produced on their computers rather then giving you the thing you paid for?
... the war was won as soon as stupid people got internet. The last 20 years from around 1999 on, I watched as software and games went from something we owned to something corporations controlled. The average person is downright fucking retard level stupid about their puchasing, this is why we have mmo's/f2p/online drm, diablo 3 with single player lag, microtransactions, lootboxes in overwatch even though ALL the content in overwatch already exists in files on your hard drive just inaccessable. A fucking lootbox interface on a game where all the content is already on your drive. We live in a full blown idiocracy here. Windows 10 is the the finishing touch.
To think that Microsoft, game and tech companies got all they wanted in the 90's simply by waiting for the stupid masses to get internet and the masses being idiots would just give it all away. The last 20 years for me have been surreal as a child of the 80's and 90's. I didn't know the future of PC gaming in 1998 would end up in total software theft and removal of games from gamers because the average gamer is such a fucking moron.
Mr Lee is living in some fantasy land inside his head, all the big content companies are moving in to control and sheer the sheep and the sheep are all too happy to bend over and give up their rights and freedoms.
Windows 10 is essentially the result of a strategic failure,
No, windows 10 is the result Microsoft seeing the mad profits of the last 20 years of software theft (aka taking control of the software) by the videogame industry (aka Ultima RPG's during the 90's become mmo's and profits explode, world of warcraft, overwatch with lootboxes and microtransactions, etc) and walled garden software model pioneered by smartphones, the videogame industry for the last 20 years has been at the forefront of wanting to get rid of software ownership and take control of the end users machine. It's been silicon valleys wet dream to basically remove control of machine from the user and turn it into a locked down walled garden like smart phones. They basically want what the videogame industry and smart phone industry want, endless stream of 'service' based software apps/micro apps, etc. To do that they are basically turning the PC into a smartphone and getting rid of user freedom.
I don't consider a subscription model valid for an OS though.
Sigh... the same thing was said at the beginning of MMO's where Ultima RPG's were all stand alone until the internet, and then the big shift began. All rpgs in development for the PC were relabelled and rebadged mmo's to get the drm into them which is why they all wanted it so bad. You get to lock down the software and control it. Anyway, it's way too late because windows 10 is already here, mmo's, steam, gacha mobile games.
... computing. To turn PC's into locked down devices like phones. The masses are too stupid to understand what is happening and keep feeding all these companies money. Watching PC software freedom and games being literally stolen and turned into "services" because the average person on our planet is fucking chimp level intelligence is pretty fucking disgusting.
So now it's "being hunted" when you skip bail and hide in the embassy.
Except the whole legal process is a sham you idiot, as soon as they got assange they will use their trumped up charges to extradite him to the US. The level of braindeath in the posts in this article is off the charts.
Man the above two posts are such incredible amounts of bullshit, the propagandists must be out in full force today. Ecuador embassy is essentially under Ecuador juristiction, so of course I just used shorthand. Man you guys are historically illiterate idiots.
Yeah because you were there are no exactly what happened right?
Anyone with an inkling of the history of america knows it's true, people like you are laughable morons. Most of todays slashdot commentariat proves americans are gullible idiots. It was obvious to anyone with half a clue you piss off and do a data dump on the war crimes of the biggest empire on the planet, that's going to piss a lot of people at the top the fuck off enough to come after your ass.
Yes, except characterizing penetration of an unconscious person after she had repeatedly told him no while awake as "bad sex" is more than a bit misleading.
Except what you just repeated is propaganda based on false allegations. It's not like false flags have ever occured.
and doesn't "disappear", then that would suggest his panic was unjustified paranoia.
Man how is the OP's post insightful, note this part I quoted? The reason he's stuck in ecuador is because he was hunted to the point where he had to barricade himself in. A giant wtf from the mods.
Hold on -- a private company can be given the right to search somebody's home in Australia?
Because when everyone bought "internet enabled games", like mmos, companies got to reclassify them as services they own, aka part of the company, in the 90's games were completely disconnected from the internet so companies couldn't take control of the software, now when you buy a game they control the software from a server hundreds of miles away from the customer and the average consumer is clueless.
When you buy any modern "game" it is coded in a way 100% hostile to you in that you no longer control or own it, which allows companies to lawyers to tell you to do what you can or can't do with the software you paid for.
Take quake 3, the server/multiplayer code comes complete with the game, aka you get the complete software to run entirely on machine. All new games have stopped coding games like that, part of the game now resides on some foreign server in their offices and hence now its a "service" because the average consumer is clueless about the rights they've given up buy buying this software because they are largely unaware of the industries evil intents.
Dude did you pay attention to the article you moron? Cheating in a game is a right especially when you bought it. If it wasn't for stupid fucks like you governments would be able to be sicked on kids because greedy fucks are trying to make money from a stolen fraudulently coded piece of software.
This is just civil litigation running though it's age old process of discovery and how one protects intellectual property. I'm not sure how one would do this differently and still be fair.
How this has anything to do with some authoritarian feudal model is not obvious to me. I just looks like every other civil legal proceeding to me, which is anything but feudal or authoritarian, even in Australia.
They don't have to give you the complet software, GTA "online" was coded to be "online" in a specific way, in the 90's before high speed internet penetration was eveywhere, we got the multiplayer+server code (complete software) when we bought the game, aka we could play and use the game without permission from a server in their office 100's of miles away. They take part of the game hostage on computers in their office because they know the average person in capitalist society is an ignorant dipshit.
So they determine whether your game you bought lives or dies by reclassifying what was once a product as a "service". AKA they can just steal the game from the point of production and you, consumer are 100's of miles away so can't defend your rights to get your complete game. So they now they have control over whether your software works tomorrow or not, hence the authoritarian/fuedal model. It's just software fraud by other means.
Buy an offline game and do what you want. When someone plays online and cheats, they are ruining the game for other people.
There is none you idiot, the whole point is in an internet enabled society no kid is going to deny themselves access to the latest expensive AAA game. The whole thing for the AAA industry was to literally steal the game and chain it to servers in their offices. That was their whole plan since the 90's. Consumers have no choice they'd have to be physically close the companies to effect their bad behavior at all. It's why we have microtransactions and lootboxes.
... all of this because the stupid half of mankind couldn't see buying drm enabled games and feeding microtransactions to companies would allow them undermine game ownership. Thereby taking away what every normal person who used to own their games do what they will with them, because they paid for it. This sick authoritarian feudal model is disgusting.
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... since it now doesn't matter since most developer and Microsoft and tech industry in general are pushing towards locked down computing. We're seeing the final push with windows 10+. They have already lawyered it and planted bombs in it to death anyway, there's no way publishers are going to go back to giving gamers full control of the software. We've seen the big final push from Ubisoft with the latest assasins creed and Microsoft has a huge streaming project they are working on, while releasing seriously hostile coded UWP games. This is a far cry from the 90's where we had the raw files because there was no internet they could use to steal pieces of files and game code to prevent gamers from owning nad controlling their software.
The last 20 years have been a real revolution for developers and publishers to get rid of game ownership by being able to not give the complete game to gamers because their customers can't reach them. The attack on game ownership began with ultima series back in the 90's as all PC rpg's in development were relabelled mmo's and moved over to server locked pieces of software, undermining control and the privacy of gamers as the gullible masses ate it up because they are clueless. The rise of steam, mmo's and f2p games are proof we live in an idiocracy.
Then today we have overwatch who's entire content is already on your machine but has a lootbox interface for you to gamble to 'set a flag to view the file contents' if you can't wait because they know the average gamer is a fucking computer illiterate moron.
Experiments with sports like Virtual paintball, I would go develop vr helmets specifically for paintball.
Why would anyone go outside to play virtual paintball if they can just play real paintball? That marker and paintballs don't cost nearly as much as a specialized paintball VR headset.
The point being you can come up with tech that simulates getting hit without the mess, aka no possible injuries. It was just an example of an outside game. I know many of my ideas are not "the best", the point is to search for things that get us away from sitting down all the time. That is where I see VR / augmented reality being useful. So there is lots of trial and error involved. That being said, for something like paintball you wouldn't need a high rez display, you'd be using augmented reality headset so the the graphical horsepower would be a minimum. You may be misunderstanding the paintball application, I'm talking about trasnparent glasses that overlay graphics on top of the real world.
... VR's killer app has not been realized by these big companies, they are obsessed with creating AAA experiences instead of focusing on making cheap low fidelity augmented reality type glasses which are MUCH CHEAPER to produce and have a wider range of applications. If I was involved at occulus or valve I would slap the management (gabe at valve) upside the head to get them to see - the killer app for VR is to get people outside and moving instead of sitting down in front of a screen, aka use the headset to actually aid people to do things while on the move.
Things like:
-Being able to play slow turn based games via onboard flash and/or streamed wifi (low fi version of civ either on semi-streamed onto local flash memory streamed via wireless, should be doable).
-Experiments with sports like Virtual paintball, I would go develop vr helmets specifically for paintball. Do any does anyone remember captain power and the soldiers of the future?
https://www.retrotvmemories.co...
-Experiments in extremely lightweight and low fi augmented reality tech for navigating stuff like super markets, etc, connected via your phone aka "where is , or where is " but filled in via google like complete in real time.
-Experiments in augmented reality overlay games played outside on real terrain, aka imagine having a virtual mariokarts painted on the roads around you when you are out walking/jogging/biking driving, aka I'd get these companies to go to test tracks to work out the details and what "real games" are viable/not dangerous and when and where to engage in this of course, where you are a participant in said race/game.
... then you need to get them close to the metal but make it less tedious. For instance, I would have them start with modified assembly language that was based on research, with libraries that gave kids a leg up to do cool things quickly (aka make little games, etc).
The problem with learning how computers work, it's often divorced from what kids want to use it for, aka learning for most kids will always be grunt work so you should tap into what they'd like to make the computer do and their natural curiousity and make it easier for them, kids will find a way to the goal if you setup a course specifically designed to tap into their own curioustiy and ambition - aka you have to make the grind worth the effort, otherwise kids won't be able to sustain the boring parts. You need to create a virtuous cycle of feedback that's usually difficult except for the truly gifted among us like the John carmacks of the world of Quake fame.
First we need to stop thinking of these businesses as job creators. The pizza joint is NOT the job creator.
You have it ass backwards, today companies manufacture wants via advertising for shit people largely don't need. They have an army of psychologists and scientists trying to get you addicted to their product. The average consumer is NOT savvy, one only needs to take a look at the numbers. There are 43 million people in poverty.
https://www.census.gov/library...
... you can bet companies will still fight tooth and nail to get around this shit. Just like now game companies can take advantage of mass public ignorance and high speed internet to legally reclassify all new games as "services". Just as with the new Assasins creed because they control the software from the point of production and their customers are 100's of miles away.
https://www.dailydot.com/layer...
News flash: Android is just another Linux distro. Maybe not GNU/Linux but a Linux nevertheless.
Man you really are a fucking moron, Android is linux no doubt about it, but it's a fucking closed platform. That releases software you don't own or control.
Except the number one OS (linux, it all it's variations) is very much not in the single controlled hands of a corporation.
Sure, we can say, hey the masses won, let's stop fighting and join the sheep or go live on a deserted island or you can try to create some change.
You can start by doing small things (like getting your friends to move to Signal instead of Whatsapp) and try to educate them.
But of course you can always roll over and keep on complaining.
Ahh yes the linux idealists, you're out of your mind if you think linux can replace windows. Windows as an OS is basically a utility because everyone and their mother develops for it. I'm sure all the cool kids will stop playing gacha mobile games on android/smartphones, stop playing mmo's and "live service based" games like Assassins creed just to jump to linux.
Sorry to tell ya but linux ever wants to break out it's minority it's going to have to software everyone watns to use for it being made for it by billion dollar companies.
Actually I KNOW SEMATECH had a lot of problems getting formed in the first place.
And thank you for snipping out half a statement.
Pretty sure the U.S. government wouldn't look too kindly on what would essentially be the creation of a trust to monopolize a market, or maybe they would times aren't what they used to be.
Yes and you missed the point about massive state intervention and protectionism having always existed. The idea that the US cares about monopoly is laughable, they have a lawless out of control oligarchy. The videogame industry is a case in point. All big tech companies are basically stealing software from their customers because their customers are 100's of miles away. AKA "DRM" and "games as services" all came to be because what is the average consumer going to do when the company is 100 miles away, and they can now just keep the software they produced on their computers rather then giving you the thing you paid for?
... the war was won as soon as stupid people got internet. The last 20 years from around 1999 on, I watched as software and games went from something we owned to something corporations controlled. The average person is downright fucking retard level stupid about their puchasing, this is why we have mmo's/f2p/online drm, diablo 3 with single player lag, microtransactions, lootboxes in overwatch even though ALL the content in overwatch already exists in files on your hard drive just inaccessable. A fucking lootbox interface on a game where all the content is already on your drive. We live in a full blown idiocracy here. Windows 10 is the the finishing touch.
To think that Microsoft, game and tech companies got all they wanted in the 90's simply by waiting for the stupid masses to get internet and the masses being idiots would just give it all away. The last 20 years for me have been surreal as a child of the 80's and 90's. I didn't know the future of PC gaming in 1998 would end up in total software theft and removal of games from gamers because the average gamer is such a fucking moron.
Mr Lee is living in some fantasy land inside his head, all the big content companies are moving in to control and sheer the sheep and the sheep are all too happy to bend over and give up their rights and freedoms.
Pretty sure the U.S. government wouldn't look too kindly on what would essentially be the creation of a trust to monopolize a market,
How little you know about how capitalist states work.
Protectionism for the rich and big business by state intervention, radical market interference.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?...
Windows 10 is essentially the result of a strategic failure,
No, windows 10 is the result Microsoft seeing the mad profits of the last 20 years of software theft (aka taking control of the software) by the videogame industry (aka Ultima RPG's during the 90's become mmo's and profits explode, world of warcraft, overwatch with lootboxes and microtransactions, etc) and walled garden software model pioneered by smartphones, the videogame industry for the last 20 years has been at the forefront of wanting to get rid of software ownership and take control of the end users machine. It's been silicon valleys wet dream to basically remove control of machine from the user and turn it into a locked down walled garden like smart phones. They basically want what the videogame industry and smart phone industry want, endless stream of 'service' based software apps/micro apps, etc. To do that they are basically turning the PC into a smartphone and getting rid of user freedom.
I don't consider a subscription model valid for an OS though.
Sigh... the same thing was said at the beginning of MMO's where Ultima RPG's were all stand alone until the internet, and then the big shift began. All rpgs in development for the PC were relabelled and rebadged mmo's to get the drm into them which is why they all wanted it so bad. You get to lock down the software and control it. Anyway, it's way too late because windows 10 is already here, mmo's, steam, gacha mobile games.
... computing. To turn PC's into locked down devices like phones. The masses are too stupid to understand what is happening and keep feeding all these companies money. Watching PC software freedom and games being literally stolen and turned into "services" because the average person on our planet is fucking chimp level intelligence is pretty fucking disgusting.
... foobar is a decent option if your needs are just music.
http://www.foobar2000.org/
So now it's "being hunted" when you skip bail and hide in the embassy.
Except the whole legal process is a sham you idiot, as soon as they got assange they will use their trumped up charges to extradite him to the US. The level of braindeath in the posts in this article is off the charts.
Man the above two posts are such incredible amounts of bullshit, the propagandists must be out in full force today. Ecuador embassy is essentially under Ecuador juristiction, so of course I just used shorthand. Man you guys are historically illiterate idiots.
Yeah because you were there are no exactly what happened right?
Anyone with an inkling of the history of america knows it's true, people like you are laughable morons. Most of todays slashdot commentariat proves americans are gullible idiots. It was obvious to anyone with half a clue you piss off and do a data dump on the war crimes of the biggest empire on the planet, that's going to piss a lot of people at the top the fuck off enough to come after your ass.
You don't see the world as it is see the science:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?...
Yes, except characterizing penetration of an unconscious person after she had repeatedly told him no while awake as "bad sex" is more than a bit misleading.
Except what you just repeated is propaganda based on false allegations. It's not like false flags have ever occured.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/...
and doesn't "disappear", then that would suggest his panic was unjustified paranoia.
Man how is the OP's post insightful, note this part I quoted? The reason he's stuck in ecuador is because he was hunted to the point where he had to barricade himself in. A giant wtf from the mods.
Hold on -- a private company can be given the right to search somebody's home in Australia?
Because when everyone bought "internet enabled games", like mmos, companies got to reclassify them as services they own, aka part of the company, in the 90's games were completely disconnected from the internet so companies couldn't take control of the software, now when you buy a game they control the software from a server hundreds of miles away from the customer and the average consumer is clueless.
When you buy any modern "game" it is coded in a way 100% hostile to you in that you no longer control or own it, which allows companies to lawyers to tell you to do what you can or can't do with the software you paid for.
Take quake 3, the server/multiplayer code comes complete with the game, aka you get the complete software to run entirely on machine. All new games have stopped coding games like that, part of the game now resides on some foreign server in their offices and hence now its a "service" because the average consumer is clueless about the rights they've given up buy buying this software because they are largely unaware of the industries evil intents.
authoritarian feudal model
its a video game fagget, ffs
Dude did you pay attention to the article you moron? Cheating in a game is a right especially when you bought it. If it wasn't for stupid fucks like you governments would be able to be sicked on kids because greedy fucks are trying to make money from a stolen fraudulently coded piece of software.
This is just civil litigation running though it's age old process of discovery and how one protects intellectual property. I'm not sure how one would do this differently and still be fair.
How this has anything to do with some authoritarian feudal model is not obvious to me. I just looks like every other civil legal proceeding to me, which is anything but feudal or authoritarian, even in Australia.
They don't have to give you the complet software, GTA "online" was coded to be "online" in a specific way, in the 90's before high speed internet penetration was eveywhere, we got the multiplayer+server code (complete software) when we bought the game, aka we could play and use the game without permission from a server in their office 100's of miles away. They take part of the game hostage on computers in their office because they know the average person in capitalist society is an ignorant dipshit.
So they determine whether your game you bought lives or dies by reclassifying what was once a product as a "service". AKA they can just steal the game from the point of production and you, consumer are 100's of miles away so can't defend your rights to get your complete game. So they now they have control over whether your software works tomorrow or not, hence the authoritarian/fuedal model. It's just software fraud by other means.
Buy an offline game and do what you want. When someone plays online and cheats, they are ruining the game for other people.
There is none you idiot, the whole point is in an internet enabled society no kid is going to deny themselves access to the latest expensive AAA game. The whole thing for the AAA industry was to literally steal the game and chain it to servers in their offices. That was their whole plan since the 90's. Consumers have no choice they'd have to be physically close the companies to effect their bad behavior at all. It's why we have microtransactions and lootboxes.
... all of this because the stupid half of mankind couldn't see buying drm enabled games and feeding microtransactions to companies would allow them undermine game ownership. Thereby taking away what every normal person who used to own their games do what they will with them, because they paid for it. This sick authoritarian feudal model is disgusting.