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After reading today EA's takes on AI and strategies about ~~boosting user monetization~~ promoting and exploitation of user's gambling addiction, I asked myself "How can someone defend those company agains boycotting and piracy?".

So here I am: is there somewhere a curated list of VG companies to absolutely avoid giving money too? If not, do you thing we should do it? It would be nice to have a list with arguments and sources in order to make more publicly relevant the ethical and strateical reasons behind piracy.

p.s.I think it's ok if you pirate things even without a moral stand behind, especially if you can't afford games and other media at all, but the arguments still apply

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[–] quirzle@fedia.io 23 points 8 months ago (2 children)

Then google 'Sony rootkit CDs'.

I get so excited anytime someone else remembers this shit. Thank you.

[–] foggy@lemmy.world 9 points 8 months ago

Never forget, Sony CEO response was basically "The people who had a rootkit installed on their machine don't even know what a rootkit is; why should I care."

Well, fuck around and find out.

[–] Facebones@reddthat.com 0 points 8 months ago

Makes you feel old dunnit? 😂