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submitted 1 year ago by kolorafa@lemmy.world to c/games@lemmy.world

This should be illegal, companies should be forced to open-source games (or at least provide the code to people who bought it) if they decide to discontinue it, so people can preserve it on their own.

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[-] DrSleepless@lemmy.world 49 points 1 year ago

You don't own things anymore, you just lease them

[-] mnemonicmonkeys@sh.itjust.works 16 points 1 year ago

And if you can't own anything by paying, is game piracy even theft anymore?

[-] Viking_Hippie@lemmy.world 1 points 1 year ago

I believe the founder and first queen of Carthage said that if we don't learn to circumvent that, we deserve nothing more than we get. She went on to claim that nothing we have is truly ours.

Is it just me or was that Phoenician quite a bit ahead of her time?

this post was submitted on 17 Sep 2023
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