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Reporting function is for moderators enforcing the actual rules, not the ones you made-up sov-cit style. That would be like calling the police on your neighbor because he didn’t greet you as “your highness”. Get the picture?

You sound like a sovereign citizen, trying to create your own rules without the authority to enforce them. You absolutely deserve every mod action you get.

It’s also called report abuse, that’s what it’s called when you file fraudulent reports in bad faith like what they’re doing it. Commenting about it is trolling in addition.

So we’re adding report abuse to the list too now? Cool.

You can say it’s not offensive and not trolling but that doesn’t actually change whether or not it really is. People find your content offensive and trollish, hence why you keep getting banned and having posts removed, and why You still Deserve It.

YDI, your post comes off as offensive and trolling, it also comes off as an opinion piece which they don’t allow in world news either, as it is a news community. Considering your history of trolling I’m surprised they didn’t ban you permanently, they probably should’ve.

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Serves the same purpose as well since unprotected the touchpads can get damaged. I should know because on my deck they were turning a tiny bit shiny. So I put some stickers on my trackpads there to prevent them from being permanently disfigured.

Wow this looks so cool. The Steam controller is awesome and under appreciated, though I do wish it had more buttons, like the Steam Deck has.

i’m not blaming other pirates for anything. What i’m saying is there are consequences for some things. For example, many things are not acted upon because corporations and governments arent aware of them.

Companies like Valve and Nintendo are absolutely aware of piracy and exploits in their systems, to assume they are not is extremely naive, and is one of the basis for people blaming pirates. The ignorant and incorrect idea that they don’t know and that piracy being popular makes them aware is the primary reason for hostility and gatekeeping in the piracy community. Ironically it actually hurts preservation efforts by making content less available to people.

Or some things are just ignored because its cheaper for them to do nothing about it than act.

That’s not really a thing either, if it were they’d ignore piracy almost completely and let people just buy games as they normally do, it’s cheaper and easier for them to do nothing, rather than waste money with copyright trolling. So this really isn’t a good argument.

Don’t you see the necessity of trying to manage how corporations might respond?

I’ve explained how their reactions to ““abuse”” are largely an excuse already so I’ll just say this. It isn’t worth it to try and play 4D chess with companies like this because at the end of the day they’re cheating at it. Even if you were able to get no one to use any kind of exploit in Family sharing or similar courtesy projects these companies do to foster goodwill, you’d find that in the end they would still choose to discontinue or neuter it because of ““abuse”” and that people will be said that “people abusing it ruin it for everyone” because that fostering of goodwill does wonders fro boosting credibility and getting people to believe their greed motivated lies.

You’re not going to stop them from getting worse, and nothing the rest of us do can either, short of overthrowing the companies, and ending capitalism. Something that ultimately isn’t likely to happen any time soon. What you’re forgetting here is that when I say companies use abuse as an excuse I really mean the excuse part. They’ll say it’s happening even if it’s not significant, and they’ll say it’s happening even if it isn’t happening at all. If they get tired of the courtesy and want to go back to making more money they’ll lie and say they’re ending it because of abuse and people who do blame pirates will eat that excuse up even if it’s a lie and begin attacking pirates for it, like they always do. Do you see it yet?

Ok @db0@lemmy.dbzer0.com Let’s settle this debate, does the dbzer0 instance and/or the Piracy community here push the “Good Guy Valve” stance and thus consider this bad practice, or do we consider Valve to be like any other company which uses DRM in regards to this situation. That is to say it is permitted and encouraged like breaking any other DRM.
Would love to hear your thoughts on this matter.

If dn0 isn’t available, another community mod or instance admin can feel free to answer this, I CCed you in the bottom of this comment. I apologize if the ping was annoying.

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I really wish us as a community would stop blaming other pirates for the bad or evil decisions of companies, that applies to exploitative decisions like limitation of abilites via fake DRM (by the way, you can bypass SteamWorks DRM very VERY Easily) or when it comes to copyright trolling and takedown requests.

The truth is they would rather us blame and ultimately shoot at each other because, well I think others have said it best: “United we’re strong, divided we’re weak” and blaming other people for takedown requests or bad decisions from companies is exactly the kind of division they want, that benefits them. Because when we’re divided or don’t see them as the enemy, it’s easier to pick us off and there will be no retaliation against them.

Get out of that mindset of going against other pirates, it is the corporations who screw things up, they do it of their own accord. Blaming pirates is an excuse because they’re bored and want to make more money, otherwise why would they be adding ads to paid plans? Why would they be trying to sell games multiple times in a row. They don’t actually care if people are nice to them, they probably see capitulating as weakness. We’re suckers for playing along with the game in the first place, that’s how they see it.

Are you full of shit? Their family sharing is the most locked down garbage there is, they limit you to families of 4 and make you wait a year before you can join another family. That’s not a courtesy, that’s a fake courtesy so they can say they provided something, and claim to be “good guy Valve”, actually that’s not true, they never claimed to be good guy Valve. It doesn’t help that they made publishers able to mark games as not family share supported.

While they added so much to the Family share feature they also took away a lot and locked it down considerably. I’m not going to pretend the fancy new options and ability to add 4 accounts is an upgrade, you get locked out of it for a year if you join and leave and any publisher can refuse to participate.

Let us not pretend that Valve is somehow trying to do good, they’re trying to make themselves look good while providing less, and when people point out the shortcomings they try to turn us against each other by saying it was “because of abuse”, the real reason is because they don’t want to give it their all.

This is a Phishing attack, just so we’re clear, they haven’t broken the encryption. They gain access by tricking you into clicking malicious links or scanning fake QR codes. As long as you stay vigilant you should be fine, make sure to warn other people in your life though who might not be as keen on this though, they can easily be compromised, and if they share conversations with you it can indirectly affect you if they are.

I saw that one, not a great look for him, almost as if he was posting there simply so the other person couldn’t. Probably hoping he could spin it in a way people would see favorably, it did backfire on him though, greatly.

Okay one more instance to add to the list of instances for me to avoid.

PTB, the mods in !news@lemmy.world are really aggressive power-trippers in this current day and age. That’s why a hands off approach like what certain servers do where they “choose not to interfere with communities” is not a good approach. Even Reddit has a Moderator CoC. Instance admins can and should hold communities to a certain standard of moderation and ban or reassign moderators which don’t or abuse their power.

It doesn’t make them hurt as much as it should. Unfortunately to really put a dent in greedy corporations takes much more effort than not paying for something.

As far as things go, it unfortunately doesn’t really hurt them much.