The best example I experienced was when I tried to watch an apple tv original show with my cousin (who has family access to the service). He wanted to log in to his account on my laptop and needed to verify his dad's credit card to do so. No problem, but it took a while. After that we still couldn't watch, because the player didn't load the video for some reason. Cue my cousin fiddling about trying to fix the issue.

In the meantime I had started to download the first two episodes and copied it on a thumb drive.

[–] mwguy@infosec.pub 0 points 11 months ago (1 children)

Piracy is a service problem.

[–] Omega_Haxors@lemmy.ml 0 points 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago) (1 children)

Valve is a terrible company and Steam is an awful platform but their stance on piracy is why they deserve a lot of the success they get. In a day and age where everyone was trying as hard as possible to punish their userbase as much as possible for their crappy distribution model, here came a company that actually understood why people pirate in the first place and made a vast majority of the gaming population willingly download DRM then go through it to spend billions on games they will never play.

Lol the valve fanboys found this, yikes. They downvote bombed this like a game which slightly annoyed them.

[–] derpgon@programming.dev 0 points 11 months ago (1 children)

Care to explain why "Valve is a terrible company" and "Steam is an awful platform"? Surely, it has tons of porn games (that you can hide), or shitty games (that is hard to sort through), or CS:GO item gambling problems (don't really care). But I kind of fail to see how the company or the client could be fundamentally bad.

[–] Omega_Haxors@lemmy.ml 0 points 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago) (1 children)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=s9aCwCKgkLo

And here are some reason I personally don't like them:

They routinely profit off of crime which they allow on their platforms
Rampant white supremacy goes completely unchallenged
Fuck all quality control
They did NFTs before it was cool
Will not remove hateful media off their platform unless legally forced to
Countless of their games have ties to real life neo-nazi movements (TF2 is especially bad for this)
Their CEO was active on 4chan when they started the company
Predatory FOMO sales tactics which has people buying games they don't even play
EVERYTHING about the steam marketplace
This point was brought up in the video, but extreme institutional racism within the company which bleeds into their games/communities

[–] Duxon@feddit.de 0 points 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago)

Their CEO was active on 4chan when they started the company

This one made me giggle. Who are you, the moral internet police?

Glory to Valve for investing in Proton.