News Valve: "DRM damages value of games"

once, when I was a kid, we couldn't make Ice Hockey on the NES work by any way, not matter how hard we blew



(20mins work in that gif just for this thread. It's highly reusable however)


I ended up making it work by farting in it


Aaaaannnnnnnnnnd that's how I became an engineer

 

There is a problem with software licenses in the EU, and it's not been legally tested. If you pay someone money and they give you something in return, that's a sale. EU law would *seem* to prohibit any arbitrary license being imposed on top of that. Copyright is still enforced, but telling someone they cannot then sell on goods they have purchased? That's a no-no.

Except it's not been tested, and the BSA et al are assuming it'll hold and prosecuting the crap out of everyone for it, "so they must be right" is the general feeling.

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I hate you Kenny.