You are aware Ukraine only exists as a sovereign country because of the USSR right? Ukraine was never an independent nation before the USSR. The USSR gave many of the peoples and nations of the old Russian empire their own republics. It was a big part of the Soviet project. They had a congress that was democratically elected, but their version of a “senate” was actually a “nation and people’s” congress, where 2 representatives of each nation, ethnicity or people would gather and have the power to veto laws etc. like a senate does.

Bro wishing physical games kept existing is infinitely more pie-in-the-sky than continuing supporting archiving and piracy projects…

And my point is it’s not about owning at all. I don’t see any of the stuff I download as “mine”. I have access to it. But how can you have property over something that can be infinitely copied? How can you own something infinite?

Don’t you guys see that this “ownership” thing is a scam? Set-up by the people in power? The only real meaningful ownership here is their ownership of all gaming developers and publishers.

I dream of a world without anti-piracy laws where old games are simply publicly available for all. We have different ideas of what the problem is here.

Physical media that exists for games doesn’t last so if it’s not constantly produced it will just decay in a few years.

Legislation should allow game archiving (pirating) and archivists should work to find a way to best keep the games. If thats physically somehow, sure. But I doubt it. Games are digital.

There’s basically no serious longterm digital data archiving that is kept in discrete physical media.

Also, individual ownership is not the right way to solve this. These things should be publicly available for all, not kept private by a few people.

Right… the lack of making informed consumer decisions is the cause of the rise of fascism. Got it.

And I mean physical games will just stop being made, so good luck keeping ownership of those.

I think the solution is to pirate, and start stockpiling memory.

But it’s not a downside of being digital. It’s a downside of greedy corporations that are using a product that is superior to increase their control over consumers.

Games are too big to fit onto discs. You buy a physical game and still need to download 80% of the game…

And buying things digitally is just more convenient. You don’t need to leave the house, wait for delivery… digital games don’t scratch, get lost etc.

They get you by giving you an option that is just better 🤷‍♂️

Problem is you don’t own the digital games. Literally the only problem.

But they are the humanity. We are just the peasants.