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My Reply to a Comment on Louis Rossmann’s Response to harsh criticism of “Stop Killing Games” from Thor of ‪@PirateSoftware‬

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Feel free to watch Louis Rossmann’s video through here.

Someone commented:

I’m going to say this loud and clear so those in the back can hear this: You do not own your games, you never have, and you never will. You LEASE them, PERIOD. All software works that way and it always has, and it always will. You deluded yourself and made assumptions. You purchase a hunting license. You purchase a driver’s license. You purchase a vehicle registration to bring your vehicle onto public roads. Those are purchases and they do not connotate or convey ownership of anything. Purchase =/= ownership. That has never been the definition, EVER. Single player games, like ALL software, is a license…that can be revoked at any time. Sorry, Louis, you’re just wrong. You can purchase a lease or a rental…purchase doesn’t mean ownership.

Louis replied to them:

You are braindead
My reply to both:
My 13.4TB of game repacks: Am I a joke to you? _Furinkazan’s Tsuki Sayu Yoru starts playing in the background_

All jokes aside, as far as countries like Vietnam, Brazil, Morocco, and even the Ukraine are concerned, this digital ownership issue is a first-world problem. Besides, paying for every digital fart to work off your war-loving guilt does not make financial sense whatsoever, but have fun being a slave to the idea that your time equals money, most of which goes to the IRS anyway — maybe there’s a reason April 15 and April 20 are only 5 days apart.

So how about you un-delude yourself, because you can actually own whatever digital product that’s out there as long as there’s a demand for it, and can work without Internet access officially or otherwise, and all you have to do is hit the `agree` button, and never take any of those jargon-ridden EULAs seriously; companies are fine not taking any of it seriously, so why should you? Why does Microsoft charge $300 for a Windows 10 Pro license when one can easily get one for $1 off of any so-called gray market or just use KMSAuto and be done with it? Unless you’re a business that uses specific software to helps you directly generate more income, which would automatically make you a target for a lawsuit anyway if you decided to take the Jack Sparrow route (an Australian client of mine learned that the hard way when he had to pay a $50K fine for using a “high-seas-friendly” version of SolidWorks), as far as I’m concerned, it’s an all-you-can-eat buffet when it comes to digital products, and I don’t care what anybody else says, be it Louis or Linus or Jesus effing Christ himself — especially not the holier-than-thou version of all three that pops out every now and then.

And speaking of religious figures, ever noticed that although Adam agreed to the holy EULA, he still decided to go against it, and get that sweet, sweet forbidden-fruit.exe? Yeah, that’s called human nature, and there’s no stopping it, so — and this part is for Louis — there’s absolutely no need to do some sort of “self-‘Minority Report’ing”, and tell companies that you’re going to pirate their stuff just because you didn’t know better, and the gullible version of you assumed that the paid experience would be far superior. _sweet-summer-child.exe stopped working_ If paying for every service in existence were that reliable as a source of like supreme convenience, gamblers would be the happiest people on the planet. I get that it’s cathartic to rant about stuff, but you’re as braindead as the guy you replied to if you think micromanaging one’s digital life is going to do anybody any good, especially in terms of ethics and piracy.