THEY’RE DELETING THE DOGS!

Yeah, do it!

I had a similar touch when I was younger. I’ve worked for Circuit City, Toys ‘R’ Us, and Blockbuster Video. Sadly, Best Buy somehow survived.

As far as I know, that would be legal. It’s the circumventing of the encryption that’s problematic. I am not a law stylist though.

Get serious. Everyone knows paper beats rock

In the USA if you are circumventing some digital lock (encryption) in order to create the backup, it is illegal. The DMCA fucked us out of our rights to an archival copy.

The owner of the site (Ernest, IIRC) has some health issues that have kept him from being as active as he had wanted. He also wrote the frontend code as an alternative to the Lemmy software. Mbin continues onward as a fork of Kbin.

I wish him the best. I hope he gets better. I know too well what chronic illness can do to a person.

Thank you for that article! He’s a truly good writer, and I read a couple more of his entries before I bookmarked his site.

You can be reasonably sure more unpopular changes to the site are incoming if they’re preemptively preventing blowback at scale.

I wonder if this is related to the comments Square Enix made about PlayStation exclusivity with respect to the last FFVII remake entry. Maybe they’re going to distance themselves from being so strongly associated with the PlayStation brand due to what they perceived as underperformance.

https://lemmy.world/post/12327447

This one stayed around for significantly longer than two weeks

I suppose they could have had evidence that the positive reviews were paid for and manufactured. Not that I trust Google to do anything that isn’t to their direct benefit.