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GOG basically acknowledges piracy in a meme (slrpnk.net)

submitted 8 months ago by mambabasa@slrpnk.net to c/piracy@lemmy.dbzer0.com

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[-] ShadowCat@lemmy.dbzer0.com 240 points 8 months ago

how is this acknowledging piracy ?

[-] DragonTypeWyvern@literature.cafe 162 points 8 months ago

I guess they don't realize GOG is DRM free as part of their business model?

Probably because they think DRM=anti pirate and not "You don't actually own this"

[-] Ethalis@jlai.lu 71 points 8 months ago

Selling only DRM-free games has always be GOG's whole thing (well, that and selling oldies compatible with modern OS), it's weird that this meme specifically would be considered "aknowledging piracy"

[-] neoman4426@fedia.io 16 points 8 months ago

Like, maybe if the final bit was saying the friends without accounts did like it there might be something there, but simply acknowledging DRM free I'm not seeing it

[-] ekky@sopuli.xyz 47 points 8 months ago

Everything nowadays that attempts to give back a little autonomy or freedom to the user is called piracy.

As long as an app could theoretically be used for piracy, even if it was made to circumvent toxic behavior of users' bought and paid for products, then it must be properly labelled as piracy and taken down.

I'll better stop before this becomes a rant.

[-] sneakyninjapants@sh.itjust.works 7 points 8 months ago

It's because the original image macro that this is based on was about piracy, saying something along the lines of "I bring a certain 'just torrent it' vibe to the conversion that the riaa just doesn't like."

Their reuse of the macro is indirectly an answer or a continuation of it that can be seen as acknowledging the original message.