EnderofGames

Epic agreed to follow the rules before the ban, not the other way around. In fact, the email cited was February 23rd, over two weeks ago.

Apple 100% made the move in bad faith, and are saving face with "we decided to unban them because they agreed to follow the rules".

Are you saying PC still has a used games market?

That's not what you claimed, you said Valve killed the used PC games market. Valve made a system where selling old copies is not currently viable/popular. You can still buy physical PC games, and you can still sell them. Finding used copies is hard, though- but great news, before Steam existed, finding used PC games was still hard. In fact, it is now arguably easier to find used PC games on the internet.

Ok, I admit that this is what their fans do, not Valve itself.

I've never once heard a claim remotely similar to this, sounds 100% made up

Are you saying you can ignore Steam updates or game updates now?

Always could.

Every one of your bullet points is an extreme stretch. The only one I could see as a negative- instead of just you making good practices sound evil- is selling accounts. But they ban the selling of accounts due to other legal ramifications. It isn't unusual for any site to ban the selling of accounts.

This is not unrealistic: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Liquid_breathing

Aside from everything Nintendo makes- with how they run the switch, I really wish they'd crash out of the console market- I would hope for the Bomberman Battle Royale game that was on Stadia only. It was some sort of deal to keep it there, but it was definitely a fun Bomberman game.

Going to be a data nerd here and point out that even the graph title is incorrect. These bars show energy consumption, not efficiency.

It's nice data, but poorly illustrated.

Short answer, no. Long answer, also no.

You need to defend patents and trademarks, else you lose them. You don't have to protect copyright- works you create are yours, indefinitely (creator's life plus 70 years plus some company still exists plus whatever BS Disney comes up with next). Piracy certainly doesn't involve the first two, at all.

If Japan's IP laws are f'ed up, it's because it supports "holders" too much, enables patent trolls and gives corporations too much power.

They didn't criticize it at all. Pretty sure you replied to the wrong person.

but where is the meme?

Yes

It's *less about shitty trademark or copyright laws, and more about Nintendo.

First off, in all of your posts, you really don't seem to realize that trademark has nothing to do with fan fiction or recreations. Not a single project that anyone has referenced has attempted to mimic Nintendo's name and brand to sell a product. Zelda is trademarked, yes, so people can't sell video games with "The Legend of Zelda" name- which has no bearing on this article or the work cited.

Second, the statute of limitations doesn't go back three years to some arbitrary date, it goes back to when the alleged crime or infringement occurs. So if someone begins selling a TLoZ knockoff game, they have no grounds in court to say something dopey, like "well actually I started thinking about selling Zelda knockoff games five years ago, so even though I just started last month it is out of the statute of limitations".

Third, from your list of shitty companies making it the norm, try Valve, who actively gives permission for people to mod and remake their games, and even allow the selling of remakes on their own platform. Or try Capcom, a Japanese company who has never attacked a fan game and still has full control over its IPs. But I digress, not being the norm has nothing to do with this.

If the laws surrounding copyright were suddenly and drastically changed today, Nintendo wouldn't change their stance or their scare tactics. They don't have to do it, they aren't losing out on sales from it- and if modders had the ability to stand up for themselves in court, I don't believe Nintendo would win even a notable amount of cases.

"My Ancestor"- it is referring to the shirt in the comic, not a real shirt, it seems.

I used Nord proxies when I still used uTorrent, never had issues. I'm definitely hardwired, and my isp is shit, don't get me wrong, but the only change I can see is qBit and proxies. I tried every server they had available, and the issue just stops when I don't use their proxies. Maybe I should try proxies from some other service, but I'm not really in a place to shop around... and I don't know that free vpn services have proxies that you can try.

I also say "stops every few minutes", I should clarify, it stops and doesn't resume. I have to close qbit and reopen.

I don't know enough about ovpn or wireguard to know how that would help me... Is that not a VPN/tunneling that you have to have both sides to use? So I would go to a server that has another VPN running on anyways?