how do you feel about hv bypasses? (sopuli.xyz)

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and is there a way to run them on windows without restarting?

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[-] veniasilente@lemmy.dbzer0.com 17 points 1 day ago

I feel glad that they exist on a socioeconomic principle of fairness, as well as having the option to play those games becomes more "grounded". But from the perspectives of consumer rights and of digital sovereignty HV bypasses are absolutely terrible, and technically at least one level worse than DRM-ed games.

Honestly, all that effort could be better spent developing original indie IPs with ethically respectable distribution channels. But then again the same should be said of corporate DRM in games in general.

[-] wyldrstallyns@lemmy.dbzer0.com 3 points 1 day ago

Corpo doesn't like that, though. 😜

[-] veniasilente@lemmy.dbzer0.com 6 points 1 day ago

They're free to change their tune. The entire reason this exists after all is that corpo does harm.

[-] wyldrstallyns@lemmy.dbzer0.com 3 points 1 day ago

The corpos don't have any reason to change. 🥲

[-] veniasilente@lemmy.dbzer0.com 2 points 11 hours ago

So we given them reasons.

[-] wyldrstallyns@lemmy.dbzer0.com 2 points 8 hours ago

I can understand how it might feel that way, but we're not there yet. 😅

[-] veniasilente@lemmy.dbzer0.com 3 points 2 hours ago

Not with that attitude!

Aristocrats were guillotined for less.

[-] wyldrstallyns@lemmy.dbzer0.com 1 points 1 hour ago* (last edited 1 hour ago)

I've long held that the next ones built need to have a sign up top that reads "Heroes Work Here" (+ an apostrophe for "work of", too)

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