Legendary Half-Life YouTuber plans class-action lawsuit against Ubisoft for killing The Crew - eviltoast
  • circuitfarmer@lemmy.sdf.org
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    11 months ago

    Imagine buying a T-shirt, and the manufacturer, without your prior knowledge or consent, could somehow render your shirt unwearable – that’s effectively what’s happening here. The only “gray area” might be that ultimately you don’t own a copy of the game anyway (since digital copies are effectively leased – a whole other issue unto itself), but regardless: more power to this lawsuit. Seriously shady shit getting tacitly accepted lately.

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      11 months ago

      “we lost our license to print this brands logo on our shirts, so you have to give it back now”

      Smh

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      11 months ago

      “Imagine everyone moves to electric vehicles, gas stations close down, and people start sueing Ford for releasing a gas car 30 years ago” is the better analogy.

      • mranachi@aussie.zone
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        11 months ago

        That’s a terrible analogy.

        It’s more like, imagine Fords required a connect to a server to run and they turned that server off, stopping a perfectly functional car you purchased from working.

        Then you sued them to force them to make the car work without the server.