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[–] [email protected] 3 points 8 months ago (1 children)

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

[–] [email protected] 2 points 8 months ago (1 children)

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.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 8 months ago (1 children)

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

[–] [email protected] 1 points 8 months ago (1 children)

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.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 8 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.