As far as I know, that would be legal. It’s the circumventing of the encryption that’s problematic. I am not a law stylist though.

In the USA if you are circumventing some digital lock (encryption) in order to create the backup, it is illegal. The DMCA fucked us out of our rights to an archival copy.

The owner of the site (Ernest, IIRC) has some health issues that have kept him from being as active as he had wanted. He also wrote the frontend code as an alternative to the Lemmy software. Mbin continues onward as a fork of Kbin.

I wish him the best. I hope he gets better. I know too well what chronic illness can do to a person.

Thank you for that article! He’s a truly good writer, and I read a couple more of his entries before I bookmarked his site.

You can be reasonably sure more unpopular changes to the site are incoming if they’re preemptively preventing blowback at scale.

I wonder if this is related to the comments Square Enix made about PlayStation exclusivity with respect to the last FFVII remake entry. Maybe they’re going to distance themselves from being so strongly associated with the PlayStation brand due to what they perceived as underperformance.

https://lemmy.world/post/12327447

Trump anyway:

I suppose they could have had evidence that the positive reviews were paid for and manufactured. Not that I trust Google to do anything that isn’t to their direct benefit.

Uh, excuse me, but Gabe buys submarines thankyouverymuch

Got it. Thank you.

There’s a ROM download on the developer’s page. Does anyone know if that’s a beta version or a demo or…?

I just love to hate those two, so the actors certainly played their parts very well.

Wouldn’t you agree, my child?

(You read this in her voice, didn’t you?)

Thank you for working on this and for sharing with everyone!

The food-based psychological torture she puts Miles through is entertaining at least

Gotta be in it to win it?

PROOF OF THESE RUNES CARVED INTO GOLDEN PLATES

Bold of you to assume any of this is real.

I just want to say that I’m in a similar place in my life, and I agree with your assessment of cost vs value of PS+. I dropped my subscription because I just don’t play much outside of the Steam Deck these days.

If I get an itch to play something that is in my library from my previous PS+ subscription, I think I’ll just pay for a single month.