If 30 years ago someone suggested breaking into your house to take away your Nintendo games or remotely disabling them by sending somethi...
If 30 years ago someone suggested breaking into your house to take away your Nintendo games or remotely disabling them by sending something over the network to the console, it would have absolutely been beyond the pale. But 30 years of boiling the frog and now we have a megacorp that has absolutely no qualms about maximizing their profits by doing the moral equivalent. The popular conception of what constitutes a transaction, what constitutes ownership, and what is fair use has swung so far away from what consumers want and expect, that I can't believe they're arguing, stupidly, in court, that ownership is "not possible" because one person can buy a game, and then a second person can! Whatever happened, I dunno. I hate that consumers have become so powerless in the face of relentless erosion of basic transactional norms. It just reinforces how much I will not be participating in that economy.
Posted by titzer on Sep 10, 2026, 2:37 PM
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i have been going thru this for years now and because this attaches to contacts i have literally destroyed my family life.
I did the same thing this year, and I agree it's been one of the best decisions I've made.
If 30 years ago someone suggested breaking into your house to take away your Nintendo games or remotely disabling them by sending somethi...
This is an entirely weird and bizarre conversation.
I hate that our solution to the modern Internet is to engage in technical warfare just to make it usable.
To me it counts as a trope and the guidelines ask as to avoid posting Internet tropes, for the very reason that they’re more likely to el...
The New Delhi judge however went further, ordering sweeping new measures that tech experts say have rewritten rules of internet governanc...
Social media itself was the beginning of the end.
If 30 years ago someone suggested breaking into your house to take away your Nintendo games or remotely disabling them by sending somethi...
If 30 years ago someone suggested breaking into your house to take away your Nintendo games or remotely disabling them by sending something over the network to the console, it would have absolutely been beyond the pale. But 30 years of boiling the frog and now we have a megacorp that has absolutely no qualms about maximizing their profits by doing the moral equivalent. The popular conception of what constitutes a transaction, what constitutes ownership, and what is fair use has swung so far away from what consumers want and expect, that I can't believe they're arguing, stupidly, in court, that ownership is "not possible" because one person can buy a game, and then a second person can! Whatever happened, I dunno. I hate that consumers have become so powerless in the face of relentless erosion of basic transactional norms. It just reinforces how much I will not be participating in that economy.
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