Go ahead and pirate, then demand your favorite streaming sites support compulsory licence royalty schedules on a sliding scale commensurate with the distribution incidence prior to the advent of consumer copying technology and subsequent consolidation, when the economy supported three times as many small and emerging artists and authors.
This pisses me off so much. Most of those games I had when I was a kid are still proprietary. Even though they aren’t supported anymore, even though the code those programmers wrote is almost worthless nowadays, we still have no right to copy those floppies.
And it gets better: instead of an asinine attempt at rap music to protect their imaginary property, game companies program rules into their games requiring a constant Internet connection so that they can spy on you so they can make absolutely certain that you will never play for free.
And better yet: even if you do buy the game in full compliance of their arbitrary rules, some games even write rules into the software to prevent you from reselling the copy you bought.
John Hardy Developer 
Wow I remember that.
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Go ahead and pirate, then demand your favorite streaming sites support compulsory licence royalty schedules on a sliding scale commensurate with the distribution incidence prior to the advent of consumer copying technology and subsequent consolidation, when the economy supported three times as many small and emerging artists and authors.
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It may not surprise you to learn that the rapper is also a lawyer. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/M._E._Hart
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Do you remember when software came on cassette tape and all you had to do was record one onto the other to copy it?
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This pisses me off so much. Most of those games I had when I was a kid are still proprietary. Even though they aren’t supported anymore, even though the code those programmers wrote is almost worthless nowadays, we still have no right to copy those floppies.
And it gets better: instead of an asinine attempt at rap music to protect their imaginary property, game companies program rules into their games requiring a constant Internet connection so that they can spy on you so they can make absolutely certain that you will never play for free.
And better yet: even if you do buy the game in full compliance of their arbitrary rules, some games even write rules into the software to prevent you from reselling the copy you bought.
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