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Sunshine (she/her)@lemmy.caM to Stop Killing Games@lemmy.dbzer0.comEnglish · 3 days ago

Minecraft creator Markus "Notch" Person backed the Stop Killing Games campaign. criticizing digital game licenses. He argued that if players don't truly own games, then piracy isn't theft.

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Minecraft creator Markus "Notch" Person backed the Stop Killing Games campaign. criticizing digital game licenses. He argued that if players don't truly own games, then piracy isn't theft.

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Sunshine (she/her)@lemmy.caM to Stop Killing Games@lemmy.dbzer0.comEnglish · 3 days ago
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Minecraft Creator Says That If Buying a Game Is Not a Purchase, Then Pirating It Is Not Theft
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Minecraft creator Markus Persson commented on the Stop Killing Games initiative: 'if buying a game is not a purchase, pirating is not theft'.
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    I don’t follow Minecraft drama. Why’s he a dick?

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      Alt right bigot

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        Gathered that after reading more of the comments. Thank you.

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      https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Markus_Persson

      Check out the personal life section.

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        FYI, you can link to a specific section of a Wikipedia article like this https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Markus_Persson#Personal_life

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[EU/UK] Stop Killing Games:

The consumer movement to stop game publishers from destroying older games with kill switches.

The goal is to reach 1 million signatures in the EU so that the european parliament will respond to the initiative that then leads to regulation that requires end-of-life plans for games to stay playable.


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