{"id":1953,"date":"2023-12-08T05:18:00","date_gmt":"2023-12-08T05:18:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/vanessasdomain.com\/?p=1953"},"modified":"2023-12-14T17:42:37","modified_gmt":"2023-12-14T17:42:37","slug":"response-to-reason-studios-demonstrates-why-piracy-is-completely-justified","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/vanessasdomain.com\/?p=1953","title":{"rendered":"Response to &#8220;Reason studios demonstrates why piracy is completely justified&#8221;"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed is-type-video is-provider-youtube wp-block-embed-youtube wp-embed-aspect-16-9 wp-has-aspect-ratio\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Reason studios demonstrates why piracy is completely justified by disabling paid, lifetime licenses\" width=\"525\" height=\"295\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/YAx3yCNomkg?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe>\n<\/div><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Do what thou whilt shall be the whole of the law.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>While I don&#8217;t think piracy is justified in general, this kind of theft of things you already bought happened to me recently with a PC game I bought on physical media; Tron Evolution. Disney revoked all the licenses of the game including legitimate pre-existing purchases of the game. I bought it brand new on physical media back when it first came out. Now I can&#8217;t play the game I legitimately bought brand new anymore for no legitimate reason. The CD key the game physically shipped with doesn&#8217;t work anymore.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Even working around the DRM it prompts you on install doesn&#8217;t help because it has a second form of DRM; Games for Windows Live. GFWL, is dead and doesn&#8217;t work anymore because it has been shutdown in favor of the Microsoft store and the Xbox services. It doesn&#8217;t let me sign in anymore and they tied saving the game into using it. (Yes I reset my password and no it did not help. I can sign into my Microsoft account just fine on my Xbox and on my Outlook. This isn&#8217;t an account issue.)<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>You have to authenticate the installation with one form of DRM, which is now revoked for no legitimate reason, then log into another on a now dead service, just to play a game I physically own on disc because Disney arbitrarily decided to say &#8220;screw you.&#8221; The game is already abandonware yet they screwed over legitimate purchases presumably out of arbitrary malice. They lose nothing off from me playing the game I already own ON PHYSICAL MEDIA. There&#8217;s no legitimate reason to do this to me other than just petty megalomania.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>So now the only way I can play this game I paid for again would be to pirate it but I don&#8217;t even know how to do that these days and even if I did there&#8217;s no guarantee I&#8217;d even be able to save the game because that&#8217;s attached to GFWL for some absurd reason. Now, despite owning a legitimate copy of the game, I have no other option but to pirate it if I ever wanted to play it again. It&#8217;s fucked.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Love is the law, love under will.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Frustrated,<br>Vanessa<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Do what thou whilt shall be the whole of the law. While I don&#8217;t think piracy is justified in general, this kind of theft of things you already bought happened to me recently with a PC game I bought on physical media; Tron Evolution. 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