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Turkey prepares to block Steam and Epic Games. Hello, piracy! (www.pcgamer.com)

submitted 3 days ago by kaptan@hackerz.world to c/piracy@lemmy.dbzer0.com

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Hey everyone.

Government of Türkiye is pushing a new regulation that would force Steam, Epic, PlayStation etc. to appoint local representatives. If they refuse? The whole platform gets banned.

They also want full access to user data and the power to arbitrarily ban "risky" content. This isn't just a Turkish thing, governments everywhere are trying to pull this crap. They think blocking platforms will control us? All they are doing is driving people straight to VPNs and piracy. If you make it impossible to buy games legally, we'll just sail the high seas for free.

Thanks for the boost, I guess.

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[-] jjlinux@lemmy.zip 3 points 1 day ago

It's not similar, it's the exact same crap. Yeah you can change the tires of your choice, as well as the cover for your phone or the sleeve for your laptop, but that's about as far as you can go with your 'new' car nowadays.

[-] rbn@sopuli.xyz 2 points 1 day ago

you can change the tires of your choice

Not if they have integrated pressure sensors.

[-] jjlinux@lemmy.zip 1 points 7 hours ago

I'm confused, honestly. How can TPMS force you to brand or models of tires? Honest question, I had no idea that was even possible. Can TPMS also know the type of rim? Now I'm concerned.

[-] rbn@sopuli.xyz 1 points 5 hours ago

I'm not a car expert, but from my perspective everything that has microchips increases the burden for DIY as you need special hardware and software to pair, program, reset that stuff. In case of tires I already had the case that I had to go to another car repair shop, because the one I usually go to didn't have the right device to reset the sensor and pair it again with the car.