After reading today EA’s takes on AI and strategies about boosting user monetization promoting and exploitation of user’s gambling addiction, I asked myself “How can someone defend those company agains boycotting and piracy?”.

So here I am: is there somewhere a curated list of VG companies to absolutely avoid giving money too? If not, do you thing we should do it? It would be nice to have a list with arguments and sources in order to make more publicly relevant the ethical and strateical reasons behind piracy.

p.s.I think it’s ok if you pirate things even without a moral stand behind, especially if you can’t afford games and other media at all, but the arguments still apply

  • foggy@lemmy.worldEnglish
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    8 months ago

    Do you not know about Sony’s sordid past?

    Google ‘Geohot ps3’. Then google ‘Sony rootkit CDs’.

    George Hotz was the first person who jail broke a ps3. and taught others how to do it, until Sony sued him. Then anonymous fucked Sony, hard. like really hard.

    https://youtu.be/66A4zcJaPLk

    • quirzle@fedia.io
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      8 months ago

      Then google ‘Sony rootkit CDs’.

      I get so excited anytime someone else remembers this shit. Thank you.

      • foggy@lemmy.worldEnglish
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        8 months ago

        Never forget, Sony CEO response was basically “The people who had a rootkit installed on their machine don’t even know what a rootkit is; why should I care.”

        Well, fuck around and find out.

    • JoeKrogan@lemmy.worldEnglish
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      8 months ago

      I’m not a fan of any corporation, so they can get fucked too I won’t buy sony hardware but if they port a game to steam I want I’ll get in on sale.

      I support valve with purchases on steam as it supports linux. There was also the fact that sony took the linux install option away from the ps2 (or was it ps3) .