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Places that buy other companies to dismantle or lay off large chunks of staff and take over IP with minimal or absent quality to show from it. Just maximize that investor dollar.

Microsoft, Disney etc.

The harm performed far outweighs any investment from a “toward the artists” I see come back.

or even a group that funded it

I noted I’m ok with investors.

I’m against parasitic groups that feed on properties and prevent money getting to the actual dev folks.

Hey man, you can’t park that here

Ditto on Spotify. I have big love for piracy of FLAC for my personal music server, but I also have a decent rack filled with physical offerings from my favorite bands.

My Bandcamp collection is also getting up there, since a few of my favs say they are treated well there, and it’s FLAC friendly as well.

Physical media or merch directly from the band is absolutely the way to go every time if possible.

Cool argument, except a huge quantity of pirated works aren’t “owned” by the creator or even a group that funded it, but instead by parasitic companies that abuse capitalistic tools to actually steal value from those creators.

I have thousands of purchased games. 3 categories here:

1: obtained as part of a pack (humble gog etc)

2: purchased AFTER trying out via pirate copy to know if it is my kind of thing

3: picked up early access due to demo or general interest from being a known smaller dev/studio (hare brained for example)

With less and less access to shareware and viable demos, piracy is often the only conduit to prevent me getting ripped off of $80 for something that looks like a shiny sports car but end up being another “buy $800 in dlc for the full story!” Ford pinto.

Additionally, I now flat refuse to fund the likes of Denuvo, and wish that piracy actively hurt the bottom line of companies deploying that kind of anti-user shit.

OS/2

Does this include media I grabbed but literally never opened or looked at?

Not saying represent by any stretch.

If I need X thing to survive, I’d rather get it from a pure and innocent source… If that’s not possible, I’d rather it from the dude with too many boats who charges too much money than the one actively gloating about destroying lives literally and on a much higher scale.

Yes I know lesser evil etc… This isn’t a philosophy course and I don’t need what they’re selling. But many do potentially and I’d rather minimize damage than just let the absolute worst be the default.

No. “Don’t immediately assume he’s doing the same exact evil” is not the same as “be nicer”.

At the least, it’s “assume other bad motives perhaps”.

My thought is this is just another way to milk money from others. That simple. Not “let’s bribe govts”.

If it’s assumed he’s doing the exact same as Musk, then we either prepare to undo the damage incorrectly, or waste time looking at the wrong stooge.

Absolutely agree at every part.

My desire would be strong regulation via a real agency (not current US), or alternatively ONLY work via non-intrusive means on the scalp.

So, you are reading things I didn’t write. I’m not defending him about steam games etc… The only good will here about any of it is the work toward better Linux life.

I agree billionaires shouldn’t exist.

I don’t like steam.

I don’t really do much gaming… And it’s worth stuff from GOG.

Chill out. I’m not the fanboi you are looking for.

I’m only saying perhaps he sees $$$ in a venture that is rife with much worse people doing far worse to vulnerable people.

On the off chance better access comes about from rich assholes eating each other, I’m game to at least watch.

Not advocating for our against but 2 thoughts here:

1: Gabe isn’t Musk. Yes money etc but don’t immediately jump there without other malfeasance please. Caution absolutely but don’t ascribe one rich assholes shit to another.

2: He probably has hard data on accessibility… Possibly more than nearly anyone else. There’s a HUGE portion of the population that can’t use “traditional” controllers or other input devices. And that’s not even going into the medical realm.

Could game Gabe be starting his villain phase? Sure! But until more negative details come out I’m just hoping this is investments he’d use toward a new steam controller.

Slackware. 1993.

I’m old lol.

Been through:

Slackware

Mandrake

Debian

Ubuntu

Redhat , old and new

Fedora

Arch

Knoppix

Pop!

CentOS

Enlightenment

Etc etc…

Right now I’m living on KDE Neon.

I don’t use it anymore myself, but a small cost nntp service and the Arr stacks automate away the piece hunting for the most part.

I’d recommend looking over things at this link for an idea on the tools. They are great and take most of the pain out of all this. It’s all open source as well.

https://wiki.servarr.com/

You would still want to find an indexer (like a tracker but for Usenet information on what files to grab) and a Usenet service, but I’ve been away from that side long enough I’d suggest getting suggestions on those from someone else.

It sounds like perhaps torrents aren’t the right solution for you. Perhaps invest in a newsgroup service instead?

You can argue what makes more sense to you as much as you like, but things work just fine for many of us.

And as to the past month or so:

That’s without the credit system, but using those same torrents that you expect to just sit on. I don’t use autobrr or anything like that, just basics like sonarr etc.

Most private trackers now implement a credit system that rewards for making seed available as well. Even without users downloading from you, you accrue credit just for keeping it alive and available.

If you are impatient, this won’t really help, but it works well enough if you actually plan to join the community instead of hit and run.

A friend who’s a wildlife rescuer has an older girl, and aside from the occasional tantrum she’s an absolute delight.

I wish they were more common as pets, but most humans suck.

Baby skunkies doing a territory stomp is about the cutest damned thing out there.

ARRRRRR!