RidgeRoad@midwest.socialM to Right To Repair@midwest.socialEnglish · 3 months agoKamala Picking Governor Walz for VP Is a Win for the Right-to-Repair Movementgizmodo.comexternal-linkmessage-square16fedilinkarrow-up11arrow-down10cross-posted to: minnesota@midwest.social
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minus-squareRidgeRoad@midwest.socialOPMlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up0·3 months agoI’m less surprised by that than the exclusion of video game consoles. Didn’t know the Nintendo lobby was a formidable adversary up there.
minus-squarepivot_root@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up0·3 months agoIt’s probably Nintendo, Microsoft, and Sony working together for that one. In the name of DRM security through obscurity, of course.
minus-squareRidgeRoad@midwest.socialOPMlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up0·3 months agoYeah, Entertainment Software Association representing all three.
minus-squarepivot_root@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up0·3 months agoWow. I didn’t even know they had an association along with a bunch of other anti-consumer game publishers. Surprisingly, yet also unsurprisingly, Epic Games is included in that list, too.
minus-squaredalekcaan@lemm.eelinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up0·3 months agoCan’t hear about Epic without remembering that hideous ad they ran about how Apple giving them most of the Fortnite money instead of all of the Fortnite money was basically 1984, at the height of the BLM movement no less. Epic can go fuck itself.
minus-squareGrass@sh.itjust.workslinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up0·3 months agowhat better to do now than pirate all their games I wouldn’t have purchased anyway so they can come up with imaginary losses that are 100% fake.
I’m less surprised by that than the exclusion of video game consoles.
Didn’t know the Nintendo lobby was a formidable adversary up there.
It’s probably Nintendo, Microsoft, and Sony working together for that one. In the name of
DRMsecuritythrough obscurity, of course.Yeah, Entertainment Software Association representing all three.
Wow. I didn’t even know they had an association along with a bunch of other anti-consumer game publishers.
Surprisingly, yet also unsurprisingly, Epic Games is included in that list, too.
Can’t hear about Epic without remembering that hideous ad they ran about how Apple giving them most of the Fortnite money instead of all of the Fortnite money was basically 1984, at the height of the BLM movement no less. Epic can go fuck itself.
You fight battles you can win.
what better to do now than pirate all their games I wouldn’t have purchased anyway so they can come up with imaginary losses that are 100% fake.