• Exocrinous@lemm.ee
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    9 months ago

    How are pirates supposed to get copies of software that’s already been abandoned so they can distribute it?

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      9 months ago

      Well in the old days we would all have copies of the disk to spread around. I still have hundreds of floppies for C64 software. I still have 3.5 for my Amiga.

      I am starting to think I am a closet pack rat. I have lots of really old technology I have been carting around for 40 years.

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        9 months ago

        Yeah, but that’s not the nature of how software is distributed these days. Do you have a modern solution?

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          9 months ago

          We could push for a law that makes it open source after a certain period of time or make copyrights only useful while it’s being used.

          The problem is there is so much on the backend nowadays. I used to play star wars galaxies which was mainly run on the backend. Even pirates can only pirate the front end.

          I started to play as a way to keep up with friends when I moved away. We use to play and chat till the early morning on the weekends.

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            9 months ago

            That’s relying on big government to solve our problems for us. And that’s not a reliable strategy when big business wants those problems to stick around so they can make us buy more new crap. Piracy is a solution that we, the people, can implement right now.