Are you literally illiterate?
FiniteBanjo
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If you download the game through a client or other proprietary software then in all likelyhood it does not function without that client. Meaning you don't have the game. You have a fragment of the game.
Even equating the arm of a militaristic expansionist dictatorship to a tech giant is disingenuous to its core, Google collects a shit ton of data but even that pales in comparison to TikTok's absurd collection. But all of that aside, your argument is shit. Reign in every tech giant at once? Why? Why the hell is it all or none? I don't even think the US Federal Government in its current state has enough authority to try that, at this point.
That's like choosing not to take a doctor's license away unless you can take away every bad doctor's license in the USA at one time.
Actually, they're not doing that at all, they're forcing a compromised unethical American to sell to a different unethical American to do exactly the same thing. At no point was a ban even discussed. So, literally everything you just said was wrong.
If punishing corporations more and more as time goes on is part of narrative control then I want narrative control's dick deep inside of me.
LMAO pay attention in school, kid, you seem like the type who is going to need it.
How's this for digital rights management: Warner Bros is erasing games from online retailers entirely. Which they cannot do with physical media.
You must have forgotten where you even were.
Because it in its entirety can be run with a disk reader and associated hardware. At most it might ask for a license code, but otherwise any physical game or video that needs online connection via a proprietary app is just a digital good with extra steps.
It is far easier to make an iso work than to crack a compiled program open and edit out its securities, and anybody who says otherwise has no idea what they're talking about.
Reigning any of them in is a step in the right direction.
A foreign dictatorship gathering face and voice id, entiry photo library and message history, contacts, and location tracking precise enough to pinpoint nearby devices and tell which floor of a building you're on regardless of if the app is in use, to me equates to harm. If you disagree, well, I don't give a fuck what you think tbh.