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Cake day: July 25th, 2023

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  • First of all thank you for hosting this instance.

    PS: Irrelevant rambling without a point below.

    I don’t know how French/EU equivalents to DMCA take down requests work and how trigger-happy OVH is. Given services like real-debrid still operate, it won’t be as bad. From what I’ve heard Hetzner is quite strict when it comes to complaints, so I assume OVH is better.

    It’s good that you don’t allow direct linking to pirate content. It seems to me that on most platforms communities are closed prematurely to avoid further annoyances/complaints, even if they follow the law (like here).




  • You could just as easily in the spirit of this community do it with the same name and code, same way they do it for cracked games.

    You could, and unless you’re trying to profit off it the original devs likely won’t care.

    And also [bank on] pirates to not outright rip them off, which seems to be working for some reason…

    They already publish it under GPLv3, they want it to be free (as in freedom) software.

    I don’t care about any security concerns. If someone does not want to build it themselves or download from a third party they can buy it for their convenience. Or they can take the risk or find another way to install it.

    For example I looked up whether Strawberry is on Winget, the Microsoft package manager for Windows. And look at that, it’s completely free to download by the original developer [1]. @upstroke4448@lemmy.dbzer0.com

    They only ask users who are too lazy and want to download through the Microsoft store for payment. I get why you don’t like there being no binaries on their site by them, but they do provide free ways to install it. They just don’t tell you about it.

    [1] https://winget.run/pkg/StrawberryMusicPlayer/Strawberry

    Edit: For anyone who does not want to click the link: winget install -e --id StrawberryMusicPlayer.Strawberry installs Strawberry on any Windows computer. Officially.





  • So what’s the crime here? Publishing something Ninty didn’t want to get out yet?

    Theoretically any streamer could get sued for copyright infringement by the copyright holders. This is because they own the gameplay, irrespective of whether someone plays it themselves or watches someone else play it. That’s why Nintendo sues for copyright infringement. Usually game companies understand streamers correctly as free advertisement (sometimes even paid) and don’t sue.

    Edit: I can imagine they look at broadcasting playing their game in a similar way to someone reading a book out loud publicly. Which is also copyright infringement.

    I agree with you on most of your points. And just wanted to clarify this.