Thalestr

joined 3 years ago
[–] Thalestr@beehaw.org 72 points 2 years ago (9 children)

If Meta gets away with this or gets off lightly, I'd love for this to set a future legal precedent for future piracy cases.

Unless they just straight up want to say "Piracy and copyright laws only apply to poor people" in a court of law.

[–] Thalestr@beehaw.org 4 points 2 years ago (3 children)

The Crysis games have been dead to me since Crysis 2. Crysis 1 is still a blast to play even today.

[–] Thalestr@beehaw.org 18 points 2 years ago (1 children)

Everything always comes back to slavery in the USA. Always.

[–] Thalestr@beehaw.org 12 points 2 years ago

No. He has effectively coup'd the US government from within.

[–] Thalestr@beehaw.org 13 points 2 years ago (1 children)

$10 isn't a high price, but it starts to hurt when you lump it on top of all the other fees and expenses most people have every month. Also that's in US dollars - here in Canada, for example, the price is 50% higher before tax. It adds up fast.

My email is used constantly every day for both personal use and my self-employed business. It costs me $1.50CAD per month.

[–] Thalestr@beehaw.org 0 points 2 years ago

They’re cheap. That’s as far as some people think about it.

[–] Thalestr@beehaw.org 1 points 2 years ago

This is a taste of what you can achieve when regulatory bodies actually have the guts to stand up to megacorps.

[–] Thalestr@beehaw.org 0 points 3 years ago

Congrats!! Coming out is never easy or fun.