OpenRA is just a set of fan games though skinned to look like the originals, this code is the real deal to play the original gane content. OpenRA only has remakes of the early games too, the source release has Renegade and General/Zer Hour.
If it keeps newcomers from making mistakes in client choice it looks like a good thing to me?
I used to be with “it”. Then they change what “it” was. Now what I’m with isn’t “it” amd what’s “it” seems wierd and scary to me. It will happen to you.
Bioware has been replaced a person at a time ship of theseus style with lesser quality staff, the magic has long departed and it’s just another mediocre studio now trading on a name.
Just like pretty much all media ever really. It’s not like many novels, songs, movies and TV shows are world wide hits either.
All a NAS is is a separation of concerns, if you build a system who’s only job is to provide networked storage, then that system is a NAS. If you buy an off the shelf “NAS” and proceed to run a bunch of services on it, that is a home server, not a NAS. Build your own NAS and most of your concerns go away.
I think the point is that it would have still been a fantastic game if it hadn’t sunk a load of money into looking like a movie.
Yes but that is still one company which I doubt is a massive contributor to GDP. However upon reading more about it it seems it’s linked to Berlusconi so I’m guessing that its a case of corruption with these laws serving to protect personal profits?
I don’t get it, most of the streaming providers they are protecting are foreign companies, if anything piracy is keeping more money in the local economy so why go so hard on IP laws above and beyond any treaty requirements?
That is a fair point though honestly I don’t think the end user should be on the hook at all, it should be the people providing the service as they are the ones effectively running counterfeit streaming services.
Depending how long they had used the service they probably saved more than €150 just by not paying subscriptions to all the services they would need for the same content. Cost of doing business?
Converting from one lossless to another is still transcoding as you are changing the encoding format of the data. The conversion being lossy or not is related to the choice of formats, not the process itself.
I wouldn’t call anyone buying into a piracy service an elite pirate, they are the piracy equivalent of script kiddies.
If you are going to worry about archival then when reencode it at all? Just remux the content from the dvd into a suitable container and be done with it.
The whole idea of copyright is a granting a state backed monopoly which is the antithesis of a free market as I understand it.
Easier to keep shares online 24/7 with a dockerised we app vs a desktop application I need to be logged in to a system for it to run. Best of both worlds would be a Nicotine+ like desktop fronted app that talked to the server component, but I don’t think there is such a ui app for slskd.
Rocky now is what Centos used to be, a downstream rebuild of Redhat Enterprise. Cento Stream is now a rolling release and is pretty much RHEL unstable.
If you want to accomplish a noble cause like preservation I don’t think it’s disingenuous to also satisfy some personal desires along the way. Easier to get people on board to do it if you do.
Downloading has never been stealing to be fair, that has always been emotive framing for copyright supporting propaganda.
So much negativity, regardless of motivation shouldn’t we applaud big companies for doing the right thing and reward them? Or are we all just going to fall over ourselves to give TakeTwo our money for GTA6 after they’ve screwed with the community?