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cm0002@lemmy.world to Technology@lemmy.zipEnglish · 1 day ago

Minecraft Creator Says That If Buying a Game Is Not a Purchase, Then Pirating It Is Not Theft

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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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cm0002@lemmy.world to Technology@lemmy.zipEnglish · 1 day ago
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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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    Heartbreaking

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      Fortunately several thousand other people made that same point long before he did, so we can always just agree with one of them instead.

      • errer@lemmy.world
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        I have no problem agreeing with anyone on a point, even the worst people on earth, if I think the point is correct. If someone else chooses to associate me with the person making that specific point because I agree with it, that’s on them.

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      I feel old

      https://wccftech.com/minecraft-gold-officially-releases-friday/

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    I would not recommend making a habit of quoting Notch. In fact, I would strongly recommend you avoid quoting him at all costs.

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    Well, what do you know, even a racist clock is white twice a day.

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    Who gives a shit about Notch in 2025

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      Karl Jobst sure does

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    Well that’s someone I haven’t heard about for a long time.

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    Nazi parrots popular sentiment.

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    notch is so based

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      Notch is also a nazi, so I don’t think he’s worth listening to

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      notch is a fucking nazi and ought to be strung up like one too.

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        Copied from a comment I just made elsewhere, but that applies here too:

        As an end goal? I don’t want anyone’s lives to be destroyed. I do want to prevent harm happening to people, and if people are harmful to society they should be rehabilitated, or if not possible, isolated from society to prevent further harm. However, I don’t want anyone to be punished or have their life destroyed just for revenge, or because it seems ‘just’. That would just cause further unnecessary harm.

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        Notch was (maybe still is?) an ill person, someone dealing with a lot of demons that just wanted to make little java games and turned insta-famous and insta-rich, and that seemed too much to handle.

        Like the Harry Potter lady or the Father Ted guy, they couldn’t handle their new lives and went bananas.

        Nazis are just broken people that want to hurt others to numb their own pain. (Not that I’m justifying their shitiness). Then again, in Behind The Bastards, often there’s a guy who has a plain happy childhood and becomes a monster, so WDIK.

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          Nazis are just broken people

          nazis aren’t people

          Not that I’m justifying their shitiness

          yeah, you are. not only is it ableism, it’s nazi apologia, and bullshit to boot.

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            To claim Nazis aren’t people isn’t just to dehumanize your enemy, but it is also to deny your own capacity for great evil.

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            Dehumanization is what Nazis do. Don’t gaze into the abyss so long that you start thinking like them.

            I think it is essential to remind ourselves that Nazis are people, that Naziism is an evil that mankind is capable of. In order to effectively fight Nazis, we must pay attention to how real people get suckered in by Nazi propaganda. The second you start othering them is the second you lose the fight because you willfully stopped paying attention.

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                I don’t think you understand the point I’m making here.

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            Nazis are people. awful people, sure, but the capacity for evil is a uniquely human trait

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      I think you meant to say Hatsune Miku

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