You're way too late for that, this began with ultima online and everquest. The big corporate project was to get a generation of gamers growing up where not owning videogames was normal. They did this using the "MMO LIE", there was no reason for drm'd PC rpg's with a subscription to be branded mmo's. But companies know the public is not bright. Watch how fast you get downvoted on reddit if you mention mmo's are just game software programs and they were the trial ballon to test how stupid gamers were to pay a subscription for a game you don't own. Most of us nerds who weren't stupid knew MMO's were a scam to get rid of single player rpg's entirely because RPG's are costly and expensive to produce. Most rpg's after internet penetration became deep enough in order to be profitable were drm locked and branded "MMO".
The mmo marketing moniker was the big lie to get into the public mind that "MMO's are different and it's ok for companies to charge us insane monthly fee's for access to an rpg game". As soon as world of warcraft hit you now have millions of kids who accept companies complete control over their software they are buying. That was the big longterm strategy. Since most people are driven by emotion and not rationality. It was easy to trick people into giving up their rights.
The internet undermined the intelligent half of the publics ability to hold these companies accountable. You can't stop companies from making games with drm unless you have physical proximity, before the internet companies couldn't divide the software in two and steal it like Gabe newell of valve did. The whole project from the beginning was that the tech companies like microsoft and the videogame industry have always hated customers controlling and owning their own software.
The internet was the gift from heaven they were waiting for since 90% of the population has no fucking clue how computers work or don't care, PC's are being turned into idiot boxes. The only way we could stop drm was if we had portal technology so we had physical proximity to these businesses. The internet radically changed the relationship between sellers and buyers of software, the buyers of software have no market power.
Pre internet we got the entire program on discs or else companies wouldn't get paid, the internet allows companies take the software hostage on servers half way across the world where the buying world public cannot reach them. Only magic or ideological revolution would restore the balance of power.
The internet undermines market ideology completely - you can't hold a seller accountable when they are 100's of miles away from you.
I don't get it, who gets the royalties of a copyrighted work that no one's claiming or register?
That's not the point, the point is they want to control what culture is available because attention is limited. It's the same reason why online drm is a thing so they can shut down the servers and throw away the software and move the stupid herd onto their next product. They don't want the population to be able to own anything. They want captive serfs with no rights to own the products or cultural works they are paying for.
It is because you can clearly see the choppyness of the falling square against a black background. You may have poor eyesight or poor visual integration. AKA the filtering your brain is applying may make it look better than it actually appears to those of us with more keen vision.
No matter how old lost and abandoned these games are, sharing the ROMs is still piracy.
Like the law matters when it's bought and paid for by corporate shills. You really need to stop sucking corporate cock and start to get a clue. IP wasn't there to grant eternal property rights to destroy human culture. It was there so human cultural works like games and books would eventually become public domain and go into libraries. So "It's still piracy" brigade can go get fucked until public domain and reasonable IP law is restored instead of out of control eternal copyrights (aka nothing ever passes into public domain in a reasonable amount of time).
So when videogames people paid for start going into libraries like what the constitution says if you are from the US, then we can take your claims about piracy seriously. Until then disobeying unjust laws written by corporate lobbyists for the benefit of their criminal friends on wall street is laughable. Software licensing as applied to games was always a scam because games are used and are products. The whole concept was invented by a bunch of corporate lobbyists.
Nothing strong man about it, game companies have literally cut the software in two pieces and are giving you broken products that now can be "shut down" at the push of a button from computers half way across the world. Thank god UT2004 or Quake 3 can't be "shut down". Quake champions is drm microtransaction ridden crap. No level editing, modding or threewave ctf... sorry got to get you to pay money to change your skin color. Shit that used to be free. You're a god damn moron for wanting to live in the modern gaming environment. Never in my life did I expect PC gaming to decline to such an extent due to how fucking stupid and tech illiterate the average person is. You make it like having games spy on you whenever you start one is something we should all be celebrating. It isn't.
As someone who's been playing vidya since Pong...you bunch of whiny, feckless morons. You'll happily throw away all the good so you can spend hundreds of posts whining about the bad. Meanwhile, the rest of us are having fun. You could too if you'd stop looking at the glass as half-full...
You're one of the morons that lead to this nightmare privacy violating scenario. Everything you do is now spied on 100% you practically can't engage in your hobby in the AAA sense without having to forcibly give up your right to privacy because their are millions of morons who don't understand how technology works and are easily fleeced. The fact that overwatch sells lootboxes for skins/models that used to be free is not a step forward idiot. It's a step into a dystopian gaming world where everything is locked down behind encrypted files. The whole 90's era of game modding would have never existed in the modern environment. The end goal of the CEO of EA is streaming encrypted games and making all new AAA content service based. AKA walled gardens. That was the end game that ceo's and evil former microsoft ceo's like gabe fucking newell were planning during the 90's.
The only reason they got away with it is because the internet radically transformed the relationship between buyers and sellers, high speed internet gives sellers of software all the power and customers have none because they'd need physical proximity to the business for their outrage to make chances in company policy. Since the dumb half of the market fed the enemy the smart informed consumers got robbed by the dumb ones enabling companies to make money hand over fist off a small number of idiots (microtransactions lets remember make over 50% of the revenue but represent less than 2% of game players).
In what world does drm locked games lead to gaming freedom or better games? A corporations goal is to give you the least game for the highest profit. Level editors disappeared because they compete with DLC and microtransactions that CEO's and the rotten half of game developers forced into games because their customers are trapped 200 miles away.
Loot boxes where you pay huge amounts of money so that you might get a chance at a skin or model is downright backward compared to the 90's where you know you actually had access to the game files and tools and it was free because you know you paid for it.
... are the tech industry, the videogame industry especially with the rise of the internet is basically making broken fraudulent/products and upping the corporate propaganda campaign to sell microtransactions and loot boxes and that requires basically stealing the software. Diablo 3, starcraft 2 and now even starcraft 1 with the latest patch now have drm in them - aka - the software you paid for now requires permission from another computer and violates your privacy at the same time.
No thanks the mass of tech illiterate idiots that came online high speed internet.
So can you greybeards explain Descent? Read the articles, saw the videos, just looks like another game.
You had to have been playing multiplayer before networked gaming was figured out - AKA using kali/kahn IPX emulation over modems. The beauty of Descent 1/2 was in the multiplayer, the single player was nothing to write home about because it was before the rise of the cimeatic set piece game.
This sounds like old-time mafia "protection" rackets . ..
Far from it, the people posting in this thread have done zero research into whats coming down the pipe with the future of automation. Last time capitalism denied people some basic existence we had a cold war that forced into existence the welfare state. The welfare state was a response to rebellion from below. Like everyone in this thread is historically fucking illiterate. When mass unemployment occurs, the gears will start to turn, basic income is the sane thing to do with mass automation. The naive idea we can just retrain people to get better jobs is just bullshit. There are plenty of jobseekers who seek for months and put out resumes and get no response.
I'd really like to turf these "anti socialists" into a position where they have a family to feed and have been unemployed for months and are not lazy but they have difficulty finding employment.
... the individual cannot be responsible for their privacy when companies with bottomless wells of cash and Internet service providers who are also cable companies are sharing data and have developed advanced software to identify individuals. The same way TOR is being blocked by services like cloudfare and people are forced to do captcha's. If you want to use TOR to browse a popular website or be anonymous good luck with that.
Your IP address and your email can be correlated using flaws in html, java and other protocols. You better bet your dollar that there are millions of ways to identify people on the net the average individual cannot hope to plug the holes. If you are on the internet by default you are broadcasting and accessing other peoples computers not geographically near you. That by itself requires messages to be broadcast across the network.
No amount of changing browsers is going to defend you against big companies and the top talent they hire to identify you using flaws in protocols and some mathematics.
Of course since the average american and person in capitalist society is unaware how extreme wealth inequality is. So all the rulers are at full blown war against their publics. That's why the spying is there, to make sure you have the "correct" free market, corporation worshipping thoughts and not notice the end of the rule of law, endless copyright laws which equals total domination of government by the rich.
See it in this speach by former national security adivisor of the United states:
These links will take a while to digest, but if you want to understand what's going on in the world, you owe it to yourself to become informed about the true state of the world. Realize that business and the wealthy is hostile to your interests.
"Intended as an internal document. Good reading to understand the nature of rich democracies and the fact that the common people are not allowed to play a role."
Interactive as in you don't just have to sit passively and receive. AKA discussion, research, communicating online on forums, etc. Much more active mentally than TV. Not physically of course.
... the internet is interactive. Also people are either 1) Watching netflix or 2 downloading and deferring their watching until later. So that would slowly eat into TV. But most people aren't technology literate. The same reason why steam and mmo's exist -- they could only exist in a world where the vast majority of people don't understand how computers work and easily buy into corporate propaganda.
I truly fear that as the helpers get smarter, we get dumber.
People were dumb ways before computers, the reality we were always a lazy species. We invented backhoes to do the digging instead of digging ditches ourselves, we invented snowplows to plow snow so we didn't have to do it ourselves. That is the nature of invention - we invent things that we find tedious so we can do the things we want to do.
The reality is what you complain about is actually necessary, whatever task we are not doing allows us to free up resources to focus on some other aspect of the task. I think you don't really understand how non trivially complex the universe really is. If having calculators free's up mental resources to come up with new ideas about how the universe works, I'm all for it. We can spend more time theorizing and let calculators worry about calculating.
The same way dishwashers and other labour saving devices allow us to spend time on something else.
You can't fault a company for doing this but it is seriously anti competitive in nature.
It's over the whole idea of software ownership can't exist now that everyone has high speed internet. The tech industry always hated their customers having control over their devices and software we've literally been robbed because 90% of the general public are illiterate and morons especially when it comes to gaming. Videogame history won't exist esp with those gacha games and android f2p games. Games will simply disappear and "go dark" forever. It's a fucking tragedy. The "market" is over largely because customers have no market power, the internet undermined the ability of customers to hold companies accountable when they are hundreds of miles away to get a fair shake and eventually release the software they paid for.
The fact that quake champions is a server locked f2p microtransaction game means we are in the worst of all possible worlds. I never imagined in my life that the population of game buyers on PC was so fucking retarded. Steam shouldn't even exist in a rational world.
I'm fascinated that you're arguing that the US is lawless, and using as proof the enforcement of (copyright) law.
It's nearly but not quite as amusing as you claiming the US is lawless, and using as proof laws being bought and paid for.
Copyright law has been extended every time the publics rights don't exist anymore, aka read between the lines. AKA those are laws bought by disney and co, they were written by business lobbyists to prevent the public from owning it's own culture. You go check the constitution copyright law was supposed to be for limited times not infinite times. For all intents and purposes copyright law is effectively infinite. Everytime it came up for review it was extended against the public interest. So that means the government is for the rich families and the corporations not the public.
And with that one short sentence you've done an excellent job of demonstrating that there are Slashdot users who aren't critical thinkers. Well done!
Except the scientific evidence is not in your favor, where is the public domain asshole? Oh yeah it was lobbied away by big business interests because of corporate cock in mouth dipshits like you. AKA when the laws are bought and paid for by ceo's, you've got no rights. Where is the right of the public to own its own culture? Where are the videogames going into libraries according to the constitution? How will any videogame be preserved now that it's server locked to servers on the internet? Oh they won't... but don't try to answer those hard questions that actually require critical thinking.
Not all the public is so easily fooled; one of the things I like about/. is that most of us are very critical thinkers.
Uhh no, that used to be the case 10 years ago, now it's basically a corporate / right wing echo chamber, if one looks at the facts of capitalist society. The US is a lawless oligarchy.
I watched for the last 20 years as the gaming public literally could not perceive the intent of corporations as big videogame companies literally stole videogame software and trapped it on the other side of the internet with online drm/steam, diablo 2 went from a game we controlled to something now controlled by activision with diablo 3.
The average member of the public is corporate stooge, and happy the give up every right or freedom for a bit of entertainment or convenience. Videogame history is literally being destroyed, copyright is out of control and the public is too dumb to understand their political interest does not align with big business but america is a capitalist/corporation worshipping nation. One of the most indoctrinated publics on the planet. Like the perfect slave society, why the fuck would you willingly destroy the games you are buying and give corporate criminals the ability to "shut down" a piece of videogame software? That takes a special brand of fucking stupid.
Lastly windows 10 is overwhelming evidence of the dumbness of the public - too technically illiterate to participate in the market, now we have windows 10 literally spying on everyone on the planet a great gift to intelligence agencies everywhere.
The rule of law is over and we live in a lawless oligarchy and most people today are cheering for corporations to take away their rights. They literally elected a guy who's part of the billionaire class lowering their wages and outsourcing their jobs... and you want to say that the people cheering this on are critical thinkers? The only interest of a corporation is to supress and make you as cheap as possible and pay you as little as they can get away with.
... that's the reality, corporations can simply force software to be bicycle chained to computers in their offices and warehouses halfway across the world because the fibre optic cables we've layed over the planet has granted them super powers to take products hostage, pre internet they had to give us the shit we were paying for. Post internet they can simply take them hostage and the tech literate adults are trapped hundreds of miles away.
The cute little CEO's of videogame industry for instance basically stealing and breaking peoples games due to the dumbness of the average gamer. You bet DRM in diablo 3 and starcraft 2 wouldn't have been a thing if the entire gaming community was within two blocks of blizzard headquarters. The internet has granted them the ability to just NOT release the game and trap it inside computers in their offices while extracting tribute from our technocratic fuedal society that has emerged because technology undermines market ideology because there is no accountability for an organization that is hundreds of miles away. It's not that the outrage doesn't exist, it's that it needs physical proximity to have an effect on company policies. So post internet we'd need access to portal technology or a radical ideological revolution that gave us access to the equivalent resources of these big companies with bottomless wells of cash... So we could buy the time and travel our asses up their to hold these companies accountable.
Reality is short of that we're living in a new feudal trechnocracy a new serfom enabled by technology and short of ideological change the public will live in a puddle of its own solipsistic capitalist worshipping piss because they don't have the brain cells to understand there aint no market without any accountability.
.. of capitalist society. In capitalist society most people must sell themselves in order to acquire resources to survive and the oligarchs and their state have to keep creating nonsense jobs to keep revolutionary politics from reappearing and thereby getting the funny people of the working class asking questions again.
I know modern graphics and shaders are a bitch to program, but that does not compute.
Oh but it does, the whole plan of the greater tech community was to take away computer and software control from the filthy masses so they could do just this. They used the tech illiterate kids and ignorant parents of the world to rob the tech literate half of humanity blind. It began way back in the Ultima online and everquest days, there dream has always been to normalize the walled garden - you never own your software or machine we do approach.
If you paid for any mmo you enabled all this nonsense. The whole idea of paying for software as a service is a scam from the get go, it's a far cry from the 90's when you got level editors with the game and you had open access to files.
The internet undermines the market because you need physical proximity to stop these awful game stealing and microtransaction practices. When high speed internet reached a threshold that radically changed the nature of society and it gave companies super powers NOT to give you the software they can now "release" software and hold part it back inside company servers to require their permission for use and access while robbing you bloody blind.
They used kids and stupid tech illiterate irrational people to do it. Companies like EA and Gabe newell of valve corp were hell bent on stealing shit and locking the software to servers inside their offices to do just this. There was outrage back in the day in 2004 or so but the outrage couldn't reach because the internet allows these corporate kings to produce and not release software and theres no way to stop the sea change because you'd need physical proximity and the threat of them getting their offices stormed so no drm would be inserted.
The marketng lingo "Mmo/f2p/online game" is all just smoke and mirrors they've literally were at war with people owning their own software they were paying for to exploit the tech illiterate.
There now will be a giant whole in gaming history thanks to people who fed Ultima online, wold of warcraft and steam.
... people's ability to influence company policies, nowhere is this seen more clearly then videogames and the tech community more generally. Basically companies have literally taken software hostage, literally theft. The new model is to undermine ownership of peoples software and machines and turn them into dumb walled garden terminals.
The reason is technology has undermined the very basis of western civ by companies NOT having to physically give you a product they can cut the software into pieces and keep part of it on their server which forces radical transparency and complete lack of privacy. The only way out would be to have some kind of say in how these companies are run and most people are too stupid and ideologically kept to capitalism. A rational society would see private ownership model is impossible post interneet because you'd need geographic proximity to force companies to stop producing software and other tech in a fraudulent and hostile manner. Most people are too ignorant, unconcerned and illiterate to request the policies that would force companies to stop basically comiting fraud on a massive scale. But either way the internet finally breaks any kind of consumer or power the general public might have had to influence companies.
And don't give me any "consumer has a choice" bs, the only way you'd have a choice is if you had money and power co equal to the bottomless well of cash on hand at the behest of mega corporations this is not an individual problem. It's the natural result of technology undermining the basis of the relationship where companies can simply now force policies they could never get away with pre internet because they wouldn't get paid pre internet they had to give you control over the thing you were buying.
Slashdot Mirror
100% DRM. Always Was.
You're way too late for that, this began with ultima online and everquest. The big corporate project was to get a generation of gamers growing up where not owning videogames was normal. They did this using the "MMO LIE", there was no reason for drm'd PC rpg's with a subscription to be branded mmo's. But companies know the public is not bright. Watch how fast you get downvoted on reddit if you mention mmo's are just game software programs and they were the trial ballon to test how stupid gamers were to pay a subscription for a game you don't own. Most of us nerds who weren't stupid knew MMO's were a scam to get rid of single player rpg's entirely because RPG's are costly and expensive to produce. Most rpg's after internet penetration became deep enough in order to be profitable were drm locked and branded "MMO".
The mmo marketing moniker was the big lie to get into the public mind that "MMO's are different and it's ok for companies to charge us insane monthly fee's for access to an rpg game". As soon as world of warcraft hit you now have millions of kids who accept companies complete control over their software they are buying. That was the big longterm strategy. Since most people are driven by emotion and not rationality. It was easy to trick people into giving up their rights.
The internet undermined the intelligent half of the publics ability to hold these companies accountable. You can't stop companies from making games with drm unless you have physical proximity, before the internet companies couldn't divide the software in two and steal it like Gabe newell of valve did. The whole project from the beginning was that the tech companies like microsoft and the videogame industry have always hated customers controlling and owning their own software.
The internet was the gift from heaven they were waiting for since 90% of the population has no fucking clue how computers work or don't care, PC's are being turned into idiot boxes. The only way we could stop drm was if we had portal technology so we had physical proximity to these businesses. The internet radically changed the relationship between sellers and buyers of software, the buyers of software have no market power.
Pre internet we got the entire program on discs or else companies wouldn't get paid, the internet allows companies take the software hostage on servers half way across the world where the buying world public cannot reach them. Only magic or ideological revolution would restore the balance of power.
The internet undermines market ideology completely - you can't hold a seller accountable when they are 100's of miles away from you.
... of videogame software is almost complete, due to mass stupidity and technological illiteracy of the average gamer.
I don't get it, who gets the royalties of a copyrighted work that no one's claiming or register?
That's not the point, the point is they want to control what culture is available because attention is limited. It's the same reason why online drm is a thing so they can shut down the servers and throw away the software and move the stupid herd onto their next product. They don't want the population to be able to own anything. They want captive serfs with no rights to own the products or cultural works they are paying for.
It is because you can clearly see the choppyness of the falling square against a black background. You may have poor eyesight or poor visual integration. AKA the filtering your brain is applying may make it look better than it actually appears to those of us with more keen vision.
No matter how old lost and abandoned these games are, sharing the ROMs is still piracy.
Like the law matters when it's bought and paid for by corporate shills. You really need to stop sucking corporate cock and start to get a clue. IP wasn't there to grant eternal property rights to destroy human culture. It was there so human cultural works like games and books would eventually become public domain and go into libraries. So "It's still piracy" brigade can go get fucked until public domain and reasonable IP law is restored instead of out of control eternal copyrights (aka nothing ever passes into public domain in a reasonable amount of time).
So when videogames people paid for start going into libraries like what the constitution says if you are from the US, then we can take your claims about piracy seriously. Until then disobeying unjust laws written by corporate lobbyists for the benefit of their criminal friends on wall street is laughable. Software licensing as applied to games was always a scam because games are used and are products. The whole concept was invented by a bunch of corporate lobbyists.
Your eyes cannot resolve more than about 50fps anyway.
Reality disagrees:
https://boallen.com/fps-compar...
A better example:
https://boallen.com/fps-compar...
Nothing strong man about it, game companies have literally cut the software in two pieces and are giving you broken products that now can be "shut down" at the push of a button from computers half way across the world. Thank god UT2004 or Quake 3 can't be "shut down". Quake champions is drm microtransaction ridden crap. No level editing, modding or threewave ctf... sorry got to get you to pay money to change your skin color. Shit that used to be free. You're a god damn moron for wanting to live in the modern gaming environment. Never in my life did I expect PC gaming to decline to such an extent due to how fucking stupid and tech illiterate the average person is. You make it like having games spy on you whenever you start one is something we should all be celebrating. It isn't.
As someone who's been playing vidya since Pong...you bunch of whiny, feckless morons. You'll happily throw away all the good so you can spend hundreds of posts whining about the bad. Meanwhile, the rest of us are having fun. You could too if you'd stop looking at the glass as half-full...
You're one of the morons that lead to this nightmare privacy violating scenario. Everything you do is now spied on 100% you practically can't engage in your hobby in the AAA sense without having to forcibly give up your right to privacy because their are millions of morons who don't understand how technology works and are easily fleeced. The fact that overwatch sells lootboxes for skins/models that used to be free is not a step forward idiot. It's a step into a dystopian gaming world where everything is locked down behind encrypted files. The whole 90's era of game modding would have never existed in the modern environment. The end goal of the CEO of EA is streaming encrypted games and making all new AAA content service based. AKA walled gardens. That was the end game that ceo's and evil former microsoft ceo's like gabe fucking newell were planning during the 90's.
The only reason they got away with it is because the internet radically transformed the relationship between buyers and sellers, high speed internet gives sellers of software all the power and customers have none because they'd need physical proximity to the business for their outrage to make chances in company policy. Since the dumb half of the market fed the enemy the smart informed consumers got robbed by the dumb ones enabling companies to make money hand over fist off a small number of idiots (microtransactions lets remember make over 50% of the revenue but represent less than 2% of game players).
In what world does drm locked games lead to gaming freedom or better games? A corporations goal is to give you the least game for the highest profit. Level editors disappeared because they compete with DLC and microtransactions that CEO's and the rotten half of game developers forced into games because their customers are trapped 200 miles away.
Loot boxes where you pay huge amounts of money so that you might get a chance at a skin or model is downright backward compared to the 90's where you know you actually had access to the game files and tools and it was free because you know you paid for it.
... are the tech industry, the videogame industry especially with the rise of the internet is basically making broken fraudulent/products and upping the corporate propaganda campaign to sell microtransactions and loot boxes and that requires basically stealing the software. Diablo 3, starcraft 2 and now even starcraft 1 with the latest patch now have drm in them - aka - the software you paid for now requires permission from another computer and violates your privacy at the same time.
No thanks the mass of tech illiterate idiots that came online high speed internet.
So can you greybeards explain Descent? Read the articles, saw the videos, just looks like another game.
You had to have been playing multiplayer before networked gaming was figured out - AKA using kali/kahn IPX emulation over modems. The beauty of Descent 1 /2 was in the multiplayer, the single player was nothing to write home about because it was before the rise of the cimeatic set piece game.
This sounds like old-time mafia "protection" rackets . . .
Far from it, the people posting in this thread have done zero research into whats coming down the pipe with the future of automation. Last time capitalism denied people some basic existence we had a cold war that forced into existence the welfare state. The welfare state was a response to rebellion from below. Like everyone in this thread is historically fucking illiterate. When mass unemployment occurs, the gears will start to turn, basic income is the sane thing to do with mass automation. The naive idea we can just retrain people to get better jobs is just bullshit. There are plenty of jobseekers who seek for months and put out resumes and get no response.
I'd really like to turf these "anti socialists" into a position where they have a family to feed and have been unemployed for months and are not lazy but they have difficulty finding employment.
... the individual cannot be responsible for their privacy when companies with bottomless wells of cash and Internet service providers who are also cable companies are sharing data and have developed advanced software to identify individuals. The same way TOR is being blocked by services like cloudfare and people are forced to do captcha's. If you want to use TOR to browse a popular website or be anonymous good luck with that.
Your IP address and your email can be correlated using flaws in html, java and other protocols. You better bet your dollar that there are millions of ways to identify people on the net the average individual cannot hope to plug the holes. If you are on the internet by default you are broadcasting and accessing other peoples computers not geographically near you. That by itself requires messages to be broadcast across the network.
No amount of changing browsers is going to defend you against big companies and the top talent they hire to identify you using flaws in protocols and some mathematics.
So we have to compete with China in creepiness?
Of course since the average american and person in capitalist society is unaware how extreme wealth inequality is. So all the rulers are at full blown war against their publics. That's why the spying is there, to make sure you have the "correct" free market, corporation worshipping thoughts and not notice the end of the rule of law, endless copyright laws which equals total domination of government by the rich.
See it in this speach by former national security adivisor of the United states:
Elites fear political awakening of the globe
The Citibank memo
Citigroup memo
US distribution of wealth
https://imgur.com/a/FShfb
http://www2.ucsc.edu/whorulesamerica/power/wealth.html
These links will take a while to digest, but if you want to understand what's going on in the world, you owe it to yourself to become informed about the true state of the world. Realize that business and the wealthy is hostile to your interests.
Testing theories of representative government
https://scholar.princeton.edu/sites/default/files/mgilens/files/gilens_and_page_2014_-testing_theories_of_american_politics.doc.pdf
Aka the rich (big business) vs the rest of mankind.
The grand chessboard
The Grand Chessboard: American Primacy And Its Geostrategic Imperatives
Grand chessboard user review
Stratfor and social media like reddit to monitor / influence and control public opinion.
Reddit and intelligence agencies
Wikileaks -- Reddit and intelligence agencies
"Intended as an internal document. Good reading to understand the nature of rich democracies and the fact that the common people are not allowed to play a role."
Crisis of democracy
Crisis of democracy - PDF
http://www.amazon.com/Crisis-D... ">Crisis of democracy - BOOK
Education as ignorance
Education as ignorance
Overthrowing other peoples governments
Overthrowing other peoples governments, the master list
Interference in other states when the rich/corporations dont get their way
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8mxp_wgFWQo&feature=youtu.be&list=PLKR2GeygdHomOZeVKx3P0fqH58T3VghOj&t=724
Interactive as in you don't just have to sit passively and receive. AKA discussion, research, communicating online on forums, etc. Much more active mentally than TV. Not physically of course.
... the internet is interactive. Also people are either 1) Watching netflix or 2 downloading and deferring their watching until later. So that would slowly eat into TV. But most people aren't technology literate. The same reason why steam and mmo's exist -- they could only exist in a world where the vast majority of people don't understand how computers work and easily buy into corporate propaganda.
I truly fear that as the helpers get smarter, we get dumber.
People were dumb ways before computers, the reality we were always a lazy species. We invented backhoes to do the digging instead of digging ditches ourselves, we invented snowplows to plow snow so we didn't have to do it ourselves. That is the nature of invention - we invent things that we find tedious so we can do the things we want to do.
The reality is what you complain about is actually necessary, whatever task we are not doing allows us to free up resources to focus on some other aspect of the task. I think you don't really understand how non trivially complex the universe really is. If having calculators free's up mental resources to come up with new ideas about how the universe works, I'm all for it. We can spend more time theorizing and let calculators worry about calculating.
The same way dishwashers and other labour saving devices allow us to spend time on something else.
You can't fault a company for doing this but it is seriously anti competitive in nature.
It's over the whole idea of software ownership can't exist now that everyone has high speed internet. The tech industry always hated their customers having control over their devices and software we've literally been robbed because 90% of the general public are illiterate and morons especially when it comes to gaming. Videogame history won't exist esp with those gacha games and android f2p games. Games will simply disappear and "go dark" forever. It's a fucking tragedy. The "market" is over largely because customers have no market power, the internet undermined the ability of customers to hold companies accountable when they are hundreds of miles away to get a fair shake and eventually release the software they paid for.
The fact that quake champions is a server locked f2p microtransaction game means we are in the worst of all possible worlds. I never imagined in my life that the population of game buyers on PC was so fucking retarded. Steam shouldn't even exist in a rational world.
I'm fascinated that you're arguing that the US is lawless, and using as proof the enforcement of (copyright) law.
It's nearly but not quite as amusing as you claiming the US is lawless, and using as proof laws being bought and paid for.
Copyright law has been extended every time the publics rights don't exist anymore, aka read between the lines. AKA those are laws bought by disney and co, they were written by business lobbyists to prevent the public from owning it's own culture. You go check the constitution copyright law was supposed to be for limited times not infinite times. For all intents and purposes copyright law is effectively infinite. Everytime it came up for review it was extended against the public interest. So that means the government is for the rich families and the corporations not the public.
The US is a lawless oligarchy.
And with that one short sentence you've done an excellent job of demonstrating that there are Slashdot users who aren't critical thinkers. Well done!
Except the scientific evidence is not in your favor, where is the public domain asshole? Oh yeah it was lobbied away by big business interests because of corporate cock in mouth dipshits like you. AKA when the laws are bought and paid for by ceo's, you've got no rights. Where is the right of the public to own its own culture? Where are the videogames going into libraries according to the constitution? How will any videogame be preserved now that it's server locked to servers on the internet? Oh they won't... but don't try to answer those hard questions that actually require critical thinking.
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Not all the public is so easily fooled; one of the things I like about /. is that most of us are very critical thinkers.
Uhh no, that used to be the case 10 years ago, now it's basically a corporate / right wing echo chamber, if one looks at the facts of capitalist society. The US is a lawless oligarchy.
I watched for the last 20 years as the gaming public literally could not perceive the intent of corporations as big videogame companies literally stole videogame software and trapped it on the other side of the internet with online drm/steam, diablo 2 went from a game we controlled to something now controlled by activision with diablo 3.
The average member of the public is corporate stooge, and happy the give up every right or freedom for a bit of entertainment or convenience. Videogame history is literally being destroyed, copyright is out of control and the public is too dumb to understand their political interest does not align with big business but america is a capitalist/corporation worshipping nation. One of the most indoctrinated publics on the planet. Like the perfect slave society, why the fuck would you willingly destroy the games you are buying and give corporate criminals the ability to "shut down" a piece of videogame software? That takes a special brand of fucking stupid.
Lastly windows 10 is overwhelming evidence of the dumbness of the public - too technically illiterate to participate in the market, now we have windows 10 literally spying on everyone on the planet a great gift to intelligence agencies everywhere.
The rule of law is over and we live in a lawless oligarchy and most people today are cheering for corporations to take away their rights. They literally elected a guy who's part of the billionaire class lowering their wages and outsourcing their jobs... and you want to say that the people cheering this on are critical thinkers? The only interest of a corporation is to supress and make you as cheap as possible and pay you as little as they can get away with.
... that's the reality, corporations can simply force software to be bicycle chained to computers in their offices and warehouses halfway across the world because the fibre optic cables we've layed over the planet has granted them super powers to take products hostage, pre internet they had to give us the shit we were paying for. Post internet they can simply take them hostage and the tech literate adults are trapped hundreds of miles away.
The cute little CEO's of videogame industry for instance basically stealing and breaking peoples games due to the dumbness of the average gamer. You bet DRM in diablo 3 and starcraft 2 wouldn't have been a thing if the entire gaming community was within two blocks of blizzard headquarters. The internet has granted them the ability to just NOT release the game and trap it inside computers in their offices while extracting tribute from our technocratic fuedal society that has emerged because technology undermines market ideology because there is no accountability for an organization that is hundreds of miles away. It's not that the outrage doesn't exist, it's that it needs physical proximity to have an effect on company policies. So post internet we'd need access to portal technology or a radical ideological revolution that gave us access to the equivalent resources of these big companies with bottomless wells of cash... So we could buy the time and travel our asses up their to hold these companies accountable.
Reality is short of that we're living in a new feudal trechnocracy a new serfom enabled by technology and short of ideological change the public will live in a puddle of its own solipsistic capitalist worshipping piss because they don't have the brain cells to understand there aint no market without any accountability.
.. of capitalist society. In capitalist society most people must sell themselves in order to acquire resources to survive and the oligarchs and their state have to keep creating nonsense jobs to keep revolutionary politics from reappearing and thereby getting the funny people of the working class asking questions again.
I know modern graphics and shaders are a bitch to program, but that does not compute.
Oh but it does, the whole plan of the greater tech community was to take away computer and software control from the filthy masses so they could do just this. They used the tech illiterate kids and ignorant parents of the world to rob the tech literate half of humanity blind. It began way back in the Ultima online and everquest days, there dream has always been to normalize the walled garden - you never own your software or machine we do approach.
If you paid for any mmo you enabled all this nonsense. The whole idea of paying for software as a service is a scam from the get go, it's a far cry from the 90's when you got level editors with the game and you had open access to files.
The internet undermines the market because you need physical proximity to stop these awful game stealing and microtransaction practices. When high speed internet reached a threshold that radically changed the nature of society and it gave companies super powers NOT to give you the software they can now "release" software and hold part it back inside company servers to require their permission for use and access while robbing you bloody blind.
They used kids and stupid tech illiterate irrational people to do it. Companies like EA and Gabe newell of valve corp were hell bent on stealing shit and locking the software to servers inside their offices to do just this. There was outrage back in the day in 2004 or so but the outrage couldn't reach because the internet allows these corporate kings to produce and not release software and theres no way to stop the sea change because you'd need physical proximity and the threat of them getting their offices stormed so no drm would be inserted.
The marketng lingo "Mmo/f2p/online game" is all just smoke and mirrors they've literally were at war with people owning their own software they were paying for to exploit the tech illiterate.
There now will be a giant whole in gaming history thanks to people who fed Ultima online, wold of warcraft and steam.
... people's ability to influence company policies, nowhere is this seen more clearly then videogames and the tech community more generally. Basically companies have literally taken software hostage, literally theft. The new model is to undermine ownership of peoples software and machines and turn them into dumb walled garden terminals.
The reason is technology has undermined the very basis of western civ by companies NOT having to physically give you a product they can cut the software into pieces and keep part of it on their server which forces radical transparency and complete lack of privacy. The only way out would be to have some kind of say in how these companies are run and most people are too stupid and ideologically kept to capitalism. A rational society would see private ownership model is impossible post interneet because you'd need geographic proximity to force companies to stop producing software and other tech in a fraudulent and hostile manner. Most people are too ignorant, unconcerned and illiterate to request the policies that would force companies to stop basically comiting fraud on a massive scale. But either way the internet finally breaks any kind of consumer or power the general public might have had to influence companies.
And don't give me any "consumer has a choice" bs, the only way you'd have a choice is if you had money and power co equal to the bottomless well of cash on hand at the behest of mega corporations this is not an individual problem. It's the natural result of technology undermining the basis of the relationship where companies can simply now force policies they could never get away with pre internet because they wouldn't get paid pre internet they had to give you control over the thing you were buying.