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Yes, and then they have to buy the labor and the materials to make said building. That overhead doesn't exist with software, or any other form of intellectual property.

Hasn't that been tried literally millions of times before only to be completely circumvented?

Your solution to your poor business plan is to artificially impose limitations on software or whatever else, only for it to be completely circumvented in a manner of hours.

You literally said you'd do this.

I sure as shit didn't either.

Literally the only game with Denuvo I'm planning to buy is Resident Evil 2.

Because there's this funny tendency that shitty games seem to incorporate Denuvo.

I mean, if you wanna think about the funny thing, I don't think that the way things are aren't benefitting companies either. That's why they lobby to extend copyright and patent law, and sue and DMCA anybody that they think is the one that's threatening their IP.

I mean, that's my attitude, is that unless you're Disney and whoever else, I don't think this is a good system for nearly everybody.

Didn't say you were. But that's my belief that the current intellectual property system that we have is there to protect what is inherently a poor business model, so companies need to contrive legislation to protect their poor business model.

Like I said. I'm a libertarian.

I mean, so do I.

I agree.

I'm not saying that people shouldn't be making money.

I'm really not.

I'm saying that trying to make money from something that takes literally no effort to copy is a good idea.

Only because companies try their damnedest to make it so, only to fail.

I understand that legally that's the case.

I'm not disputing that.

Again, that's why I don't pirate.

I didn't even say that suddenly it was bad either.

It has always been bad, and it's only been allowed to thrive because it was born in an environment where it isn't contested.

Sure, and then people would just not buy your software, and pirate it because you have literally went out of your way to make your software as undesirable to use as possible.

Like I said. Couldn't be contested.

Therefore, a bad business model was allowed to thrive.

Not unless they lobby for legislation to protect them.

I mean, last I check, the government still heavily subsidizes corn.

They're still bailing out banks.

Yup, and the legislation for it has snowballed out of control.

It's what you'd expect for legislation that didn't pan out in reality. What was originally intended to be laws designed to protect creators like yourself, has now turned into a nightmare of IP laws that are abused by a select few megacorporations and patent trolls.

I understand that. But literally look at companies like Google, or fucking Disney that are just going around and hoovering up everything.

I mean, I think it was this server that somebody mentioned Turbine. LotRO was pretty damn cool until WB bought it.

I hope they will.

But we've said that for the automotive and big banking for how many decades now?

I understand that.

I think it's just a clusterfuck.

Yeah, I don't like unions eithr.

They're just as bad as megacorps.

I agree.