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[–] 12466287? 1 point 22 points (+23|-1) ago  (edited ago)

George Lucas would've gone back and modified people's VHS copies of Star Wars if he had had the technical ability to do so.

This is equivalent.

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[–] ViperCarbz 1 point -1 points (+0|-1) ago 

This is why I've never watched the three original firms.

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[–] Diathorus 0 points 6 points (+6|-0) ago 

This is one of the fucked-up things about Steam. Patching decades old games to remove shit because of some greedy jackass. And there is no fucking way around this shit in the options last I checked. It's either patch when Steam starts or patch when the game starts, and even if you would get it to run without running the patch in the future if you would reinstall the game that content would still be lost.

People really should shit more on Valve for not separating previous purchases with future ones after the fact.

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[–] roguevert ago 

if you enable "start in offline mode"

you can play all your games, no patches no online bullshit...

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[–] Thrus2 ago 

There is a way around it, I don't know the details. But I was running fallout 4 with it sitting wanting to update for about a month by launching it through the nexus launcher so I would guess linking directly to the .exe may work or it may be due to me using the script extender not the normal .exe that it didn't trigger a forced update. I can't say how but it is possible assuming you have it already installed before the patch.

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[–] para_monk 0 points 2 points (+2|-0) ago 

I'm guessing there was an option for them to obtain new licensing for the songs, with a new price tag. I'm guessing they said no.

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[–] weezkitty 0 points 21 points (+21|-0) ago 

Copyright has turned into a clusterfuck. I still think it should never have been extended past the original 14 years

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[–] weezkitty 0 points 2 points (+2|-0) ago 

bought and paid for already.

Therein lies the core problem. And it doesn't just apply to copyright

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[–] Broc_Lia 0 points 7 points (+7|-0) ago 

It is a clusterfuck by nature. Trying to legislate and "protect" hazy concepts is a terrible idea. Ideas are not property and can't be treated like property. All it does is make small creative outlets afraid to do anything because they can't afford the billion dollar lawsuit if time warner decide they own whatever that outlet produced.

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[–] ProgNaziGator 0 points 18 points (+18|-0) ago  (edited ago)

Like when you buy a 30yr old DVD set of tv show and a 1/3 music is replaced with weird filler.

As if I didn't already hate the music industry a maximum amount.

Scrubs and northern exposure are two worst examples I know of.

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[–] weezkitty 0 points 11 points (+11|-0) ago 

So to get the real original series you would be better off by pirating it.

This is the case crazy often. They whine and whine about piracy but when people that buy the product are screwed over by IP laws, it's hardly surprising

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[–] More_Bort 0 points 11 points (+11|-0) ago 

Married With Children can’t use its own theme song for DVD or new digital releases. Liscensing is stupid sometimes.

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[–] asabove 0 points 4 points (+4|-0) ago 

Yeah they really blew it changing the damn theme song. Greedy bastards.

The torrents still have the original music, and all the fat feminist jokes. #NOMAAM

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[–] The_Flaming_Amarant 0 points 13 points (+13|-0) ago 

Consumers need some rights where digital games are concerned.

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[–] Broc_Lia 1 point 3 points (+4|-1) ago 

It would be much more efficient (and create less barriers to entry) to just get rid of IP. Or at least severely limit it's term.

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[–] Mylon 0 points 6 points (+6|-0) ago 

That's how it used to be. But Disney holds an iron grip over Mickey Mouse. Every time he's about to enter the public domain, massive lobbying to extend copyright.

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[–] tribblepuncher 1 point 2 points (+3|-1) ago 

I believe getting rid of all IP would be, at best, counterproductive.

Though extremely limited in term (not even 14 years, think more like 5-7) and banning DRM or other artificial means of enforcement would probably diminish this considerably. IIRC most copyrighted items have already made most of the cash they'll ever make by 5 years in anyway.

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[–] CANCEL-CAT-FACTS 0 points 13 points (+13|-0) ago 

This is retarded. People bought and paid for that game 10 years ago, and should not have a part of their purchase retroactively taken away. And I am glad they are not taking away Supernature.

Supernature

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[–] Grospoliner 0 points 8 points (+8|-0) ago 

This isn't the first time an IP has been hit with licensing issues.

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[–] tribblepuncher 0 points 6 points (+6|-0) ago  (edited ago)

This is why I won't buy a Kindle, because Amazon has pulled this kind of shit several times before.

Plus, this is also one of the many, many reasons why copyright is bad as it is currently enforced and needs to be smacked down and HARD.

Because this is the tip of the ice berg.

EDIT: Also, this is another reason why one should be very careful about what updates one accepts.

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[–] RightAuthoritarian 0 points 1 point (+1|-0) ago 

The solution is easy enough. My two-year-old Kindle Paperwhite has never connected to the Internet and is in perpetual airplane mode. Nothing forces you to buy eBooks from Amazon and all of the books worth reading are out of copyright by this point anyway.

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[–] Womb_Raider 0 points 5 points (+5|-0) ago 

That's stupid as hell. This is why I think people should have more ownership over the software they buy. It should be theirs as-is with any modification entirely optional. This is theft. People paid for that soundtrack.

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