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Sunshine (she/her)@lemmy.caM to Stop Killing Games@lemmy.dbzer0.comEnglish · 3 days ago

Minecraft creator Markus "Notch" Person backed the Stop Killing Games campaign. criticizing digital game licenses. He argued that if players don't truly own games, then piracy isn't theft.

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Minecraft creator Markus "Notch" Person backed the Stop Killing Games campaign. criticizing digital game licenses. He argued that if players don't truly own games, then piracy isn't theft.

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Sunshine (she/her)@lemmy.caM to Stop Killing Games@lemmy.dbzer0.comEnglish · 3 days ago
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Minecraft Creator Says That If Buying a Game Is Not a Purchase, Then Pirating It Is Not Theft
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Minecraft creator Markus Persson commented on the Stop Killing Games initiative: 'if buying a game is not a purchase, pirating is not theft'.
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    Yeah I was just memeing but then I realised that might not be 100% obvious.

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      Text does not convey sarcasm. If you mean it as sarcasm but you are not using the adequate /s tags, you are going to get misunderstood.

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[EU/UK] Stop Killing Games:

The consumer movement to stop game publishers from destroying older games with kill switches.

The goal is to reach 1 million signatures in the EU so that the european parliament will respond to the initiative that then leads to regulation that requires end-of-life plans for games to stay playable.


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