P03 Locke
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P03 Locke@lemmy.dbzer0.comto Piracy: ꜱᴀɪʟ ᴛʜᴇ ʜɪɢʜ ꜱᴇᴀꜱ@lemmy.dbzer0.com•FBI Seizes Gaming Piracy Domains Including 'Pre-Release' Target NSW2UEnglish12·4 days agoThe Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) has seized the domain names of several gaming-related pirate sites, including NSW2U.com, which has been Nintendo’s nemesis for years.
Ahhh, there’s the real reason. Nintendo put pressure on the FBI, because Nintendo.
P03 Locke@lemmy.dbzer0.comto Piracy: ꜱᴀɪʟ ᴛʜᴇ ʜɪɢʜ ꜱᴇᴀꜱ@lemmy.dbzer0.com•Software subscriptions: you own nothing and you'll be happyEnglish391·6 days agoSame company acquired two very similar apps.
One required a $14/year subscription, the other $90/year
So, why are you using a subscription at all, and not a free and open source app?
You know what Blender is? It’s the industry standard. Why is it the industry standard? Because it’s free, open-source GPL, it can never be taken away from you, it can never be “acquired”, everybody’s using it, and everybody is contributing towards improving it. Nobody is bitching about how Blender is extracting millions of dollars from its users and reducing its feature set at the same time. (*cough cough* Photoshop *cough*)
Free and open source software. Every. Single. Fucking. Time. Fuck subscriptions.
This seems like the kind of thing that should be bookmarked and thrown in corporations’ faces at every moment.