Which means I don’t care because nobody except myself will be able to use it.
I’d care a lot if Firefox and Chrome supported it OOTB
You missed my point
It doesn’t work for the user, so it doesn’t work.
Its about equivalent to the user as installing your own cert.
SSL/TLS error on main link.
urg its hypocritical of me to say so but I groaned when I saw the branch name starts with claude/xxx
Its because the US strongarmed its “allies” into being clients of their software and copyright laws. I wish Europe would tell them where to stick it so we can have a short, sharp break from US bigtech and their terrorist government.
Its because the americans misguidedly lump the neolibs in with the left, and the neolibs make up a big chunk of the nominally left party
One where the neolibs are screeching to privatise the rest of it.
Because they should be angry at their incompetent marketing people who didn’t vet the keys they sent.
Each key they send has a cost, and this is part of it. There are technical solutions to their problems, in the form of running a beta for the streamers, and releasing beta-only keys
This is a fabricated story because the keys they’re complaining about have no reason to exist. Its pure incompetence on the manufacturers marketing teams part.
Why should it be a crime? Spell it out for us.
The property becomes mine, I resell it. Nothing here is illegal.
Also, like, lol… that’s entirely on the marketing people to do their job and vet.
These streamers are a business expense to drive their marketing department. They could time-limit the keys or limit them to a beta just for the streamers, but they just blindly issue fat tranches of keys and get upset when people use the copies of the game they minted.
The CD key is conceptually the same as a game cartridge. Why would I -not- give away my review copies of a Nintendo 64 title?
Ya’ll cooked if you can’t see it. You’re all jumping infront of the bullet for companies who’s purpose is to make money, like Apu.
I do not care, even in the slightest about a marketing departments “losses” from issuing CD keys.
Not even in the slightest. Its the cost of doing business.
No other industry, not even the software industry, gets to do this.
Unilever sends me some shit to review? They’re not allowed to be upset about the eventual fate of those things.
CD keys are property, and property is tradable.
Just because the original intent is X or Y, doesn’t mean dick for shit.
If they didn’t like it, maybe they shouldn’t issue so many free copies.
At some point they have to take responsibility for the keys they’re minting. They can always issue time-limited keys.
There’s so many technical solutions to it and so much crying over the resale that I just do not buy the story.
Then I don’t think you’ve ever received or given a gift? A Faustian bargain is not a gift.
It was a gift, no?
Who are you to tell me what to do with a gift. Its mine after you give it.
Software industry understands neither property nor consent.
Yeah, I’ve never bought this. “oh no, someone redeemed a code we gave away/already sold”
Yeah, me either. I wish there were waves of militant leftists. Would certainly make a change.
Ah yes, the windows method “just click okay and don’t read it or think too hard”