X3d’s are gaming cpus.

Is anyone still buying PC’s or is everyone waiting for RAM to be sane.

And the democrats’ own analysis has shown that if Harris took a stand on Gaza

Harris said she was against genocide and would do everything to stop Israel except stop selling weapons.

Trump promised genocide.

Americans chose Trump.

The lesson is that to win the election, Harris should have promised to kill more Palestinians than Trump. It’s what Americans want.

Hakeem Jeffries is House Minority leader, not Schumer.

It’s particularly funny for the attack to be against Schumer who is in the Senate and impeachment starts in the House.

Hakeem Jeffries is House minority leader.

Resale certificates are for tax savings, not legality. Anyone could and did sell their games. It’s the law.

"Over a century ago, the U.S. Supreme Court first articulated the “first sale doctrine” in copyright law, under which a copyright owner’s exclusive right to control the ownership or transfer of a lawfully made copy of copyrighted content is exhausted after the owner’s first sale of that copy. In that case, the copyright owner sold books to wholesalers with a printed notice announcing that any retailer who sold the book for less than $1.00 was engaging in copyright infringement. The Supreme Court refused to enforce the restriction against a retail department store, which had purchased the books from a wholesaler, holding that the copyright owner’s exclusive right to control distribution of the book applied only to the first sale of copies of the book to the wholesaler.

Subsequently, Congress codified the first sale doctrine in the Copyright Act. In its current form, §109(a) of the Copyright Act allows the owner of a particular copy of a copyrighted work to sell or otherwise dispose of his copy without the copyright owner’s authorization."

https://www.lexology.com/library/detail.aspx?g=455c0b5a-e31e-470e-ad33-1803699b5035

https://copyrightalliance.org/education/copyright-law-explained/limitations-on-a-copyright-owners-rights/first-sale-exceptions-copyright/

Under many licenses no, you did not

Many means a significant percentage of the total. That makes your statement false. License transfer restrictions were only in the realm of million dollar corporate sales. All physical game floppies and cds were legally resold.

Used game stores legally existed.

Won’t help now but only deal with contractors that have a contractor license. That license number means they paid insurance into a fund so if they take the money and run, you can recover your money from the state insurance fund even if they personally don’t have any money.

It took like 3 years for the process to work through but I got back all my money from a contractor that took a payment and disappeared.

I have close to 100. They’re like books on a shelf. If I read a good book I put it on the shelf even though I’m not likely to ever read it again.

Could you post different photos? I don’t know what I’m looking at? I see a phone/tablet with some sketches.

Evangelicals only worry about the morality of Democrats. Republicans are allowed to be foul mouthed pedophiles because they are working for God.

Steam was by no means the first form of DRM

While there was a game that had online authentication before Steam, Steam popularized it to make it industry standard.

Copy protection is very different than online authentication that restricts your ownership rights.

. If you bought a CD or floppy disks in a store, you were buying a license to use the code on the disks, but you were explicitly denied the rights to resell

Absolutely untrue! You were denied the right to copy the software. If you bought a CD, you absolutely had the right to resell it.

Steam is not the main force behind that.

Steam started it! You must be too young to remember the uproar in the gaming community about HL2 being the first Steam game and requiring Internet authentication to play with the ridiculous restriction of not being allowed to resell the game you bought at the store. It was years later before they eased selling restrictions but still never to the amount that consumers enjoyed before Steam existed. Gabe was the original techbro: “Hey I know it’s illegal but what if we do it anyway. Then we use the profits to pay the lawyers to make it legal.” It’s why France sued Valve to require them to follow the laws that exist for everything else. https://www.videogameseurope.eu/news/video-games-europe-welcomes-french-supreme-court-decision-on-the-resale-of-digital-video-games/

Steam was like Walmart moving into a new territory- with the added consumer hostility of adding restrictions to purchases that consumers used to enjoy. It was because of Steam’s success that other businesses realized that consumers would take abuse if it meant they could get their entertainment conveniently.

Trump purging his best staff like Stalin in 1938.

Stop connecting to My connection. Connect to your own.

They said the exact same thing about Iraq.

https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/andrewbrown/2009/aug/10/religion-george-bush

It’s to stop someone with rights to generate keys

If it was only about developers then consumers could have the right to resell their game at whatever price they wanted.

EU countries wouldn’t have to sue Steam for consumer rights:

https://blog.igv.com/steam-freedom-equality-and-game-resale-steam-vs-france/

It only applies to steam keys.

A steam key is the receipt that you paid for the game. It is ridiculous that companies get to skirt laws by saying, “It’s on a computer.”

Imagine you buy a car. Years later you go to resell it for less and the manufacture claims you can’t because the sales receipt that proves you are the legitimate owner is a “Steam Cars Inc key” and therefore all existing laws do not apply.

Both sides bad. Amirite?