echo64 @ echo64 @lemmy.world

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No. I understand your point entirely. You don't seem to acknowledge or understand mine. What do you think I'm saying?

Irc was never searchable, but that was never an issue before.

You may want to look up the phrase

To cut off one's nose to spite your face

Maybe think about how it relates to your massive over reaction here.

Again, if usbc4 wasn't optional then people would just not make anything to support it.

There's no incompetence, they are doing this for a reason. You just don't like it.

Your dancing around the answer says more than you being open and honest about this ever could

Aside from the massive overreaction about those companies, I mean "violently unethical evil"?, it doesn't really matter who is calling out the bad thing, does it? I guess because they are also bad guys, apple should just get away with it. Let's get mad at them instead.

The issue is that usbc and, more specifically, driving usb c, isn't cheap. If it isn't cheap, no one would bother supporting it. We would just have yet another standard to throw in to the mix.

So move them anywhere else in the company, they owned them outright.

This is fairly confusing. Toys for Bob were owned wholey by Activision, ergo they were then owned by Microsoft. Now they are ... free? And exploring a relationship with Microsoft?

It's hard to understand how this happened unless Microsoft wanted to close the studio and offered them independence instead. But then why work on a new thing?

it's so crazy to me that you guys are like this, it's a different exe, it's fine.

i have a switch just to play games that aren't on my choice of platform, it's fine. wild. it would be so weird to actively avoid things I know I'll really enjoy just because i have to buy it via a different store than my favorite one

You can disagree if you like, nintendos lawyers, prior art, and everyone who understands the dmca isn't going to agree with your stance at all.

Your stance is a moral one. The dmca is not moral. It exists to limit your freedoms in favor of companies' profits. Enjoy your blinkered outlook.

Also, never use the word code like that, it's incorrect and everyone will misunderstand you. It's wrong. Use encryption key.

Maybe saying that is as dumb as saying "pandering adult themes"

Do you mean like ratchet and clank? Sackboy? Spiderman? Astrobot?

Are we just mad that games that "pander" to "adult themes" exist at all?

Hdmi is a proprietary format controlled by companies that sell hdmi equipment. They have no benefit to having an open standard. They pay $15k a year each to keep it closed.

You're conflating the idea of code and keys. The keys are explicitly illegal as they directly fall under nintendo copyright.

The code is also falling under breach of dmca, as its entire use and focus is to break drm. This is the sticking point here.

Again, to labor the point, it's nothing about the keys, we don't need to talk about the keys.

Okay, well, that's your opinion based on nothing, so it doesn't mean much.

At the very least, read the prior art https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Universal_City_Studios%2C_Inc._v._Corley?wprov=sfla1

No, it's broader than that. Providing a mechanism is enough. Yes, this is functionally making maths illegal, and yes, this is a complaint we've had with the dmca for 20 years.

Providing the keys is against dmca, as is Providing the tooling that specifically breaks the rights management. This is just the shitty way Americans made the copyright system.

(2) No person shall manufacture, import, offer to the public, provide, or otherwise traffic in any technology, product, service, device, component, or part thereof, that— (A) is primarily designed or produced for the purpose of circumventing a technological measure that effectively controls access to a work protected under this title; (B) has only limited commercially significant purpose or use other than to circumvent a technological measure that effectively controls access to a work protected under this title; or (C) is marketed by that person or another acting in concert with that person with that person’s knowledge for use in circumventing a technological measure that effectively controls access to a work protected under this title. (3) As used in this subsection— (A) to “circumvent a technological measure” means to descramble a scrambled work, to decrypt an encrypted work, or otherwise to avoid, bypass, remove, deactivate, or impair a technological measure, without the authority of the copyright owner; and (B) a technological measure “effectively controls access to a work” if the measure, in the ordinary course of its operation, requires the application of information, or a process or a treatment, with the authority of the copyright owner, to gain access to the work.

unfortunately, that isn't how the DMCA works

it decrypts games using your console keys though? i've seen mention of that in their docs so i'm not sure, but yeah if it does that, it's similar to things that decrypt blurays. feasibly against the dmca because of how broad the dmca is.