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They’re past 95k now, go UK gooooo!!

I bet he would capable of saying it was his merit and we should all be grateful to him :D

We got big streamers like Asmongold and PewDiePie support, we even got the the attention of Elon Musk (not sure if it’s a good thing or not lol).

As for spreading the word, we are coordinating on Discord to try and reach as many as possible without spamming.

Yes, you need to be an EU citizen to sign and provide identity verification.

UK citizens have a separate “parallel” petition to sign.

Non-EU citizens can’t sign unfortunately, but they can still help by showing support and spreading the work, every bit helps :)

Well done Austria!!!

Go go go !!! We can make it !!! :D

I personally don’t think that “just playing” on a pserver is enough to realize what’s in it, you need to compile and setup one to truly understand.

For those wondering, you can check projects like TrinityCore, AzerothCore or CMangos, those are the most popular ones.

What? The client is free and downloadable by anyone, it’s not protected in any way, never has been, ownership is checked server-side on your account.

It’s not piracy, it’s copyright violation, they’re both crimes but they’re very different things.

Piracy is when you break a protection system, if you do it or if you take something on which a protection has been broken, you commit the crime.

If you just take copyrighted material you don’t break any law, rightfully so, otherwise you wouldn’t be able to watch any movie, read any book, listen to any music, etc. because they’re all copyrighted (intellectual work).

But if you publish said material without the authorization of the original author, you commit the crime.

I don’t know all MMOs emulators out there but I know WoW very well. Nothing has ever been stolen from Blizzard, private servers are ALL based on emulators written from scratch by the community by reverse engineering the client, they’re all opensource and hosted on GitHub. The code is legal.

The code alone tho is not enough to run a server, you also need data and some assets the are copyrighted, NOT protected, there’s no protection system involved, not even on the WoW client that has always been free and downloadable by anyone (ownership of the game/expansions is checked server-side).

If you take those things and run them on your own PC you don’t break any law - you would if you needed to break some protection system but there’s none on WoW.

But if you publish them you violate the copyright, that’s what private servers do.

You know, I wondered why PS was so strongly opposing this initiative since I thought he shouldn’t be affected by it … until I read his game terms linked on Steam:

This License will end automatically if you breach any of the terms. When this License ends you must stop all use of the Application and destroy and erase any copies you have.

Oh boy, that’s why lol.

Pirate WoW? What do you mean?

WoW server emulators are all opensource and hosted on GitHub, what’s there to pirate?

Of all the titles you could choose …

The article is interesting in that it talks about pushing towards open versions of kernel modules, instead of legacy ones, and of much broader scope that the literal 2 lines you chose as title.

Why not keeping the original?

Absolutely! I’m always amazed at what people have been able to achieve with WoW emulation, it feels like a miracle to me.

Even if Blizzard decided to sunset WoW, we could still play all first 3 versions of the game, people can even setup servers on their own PC and play them like they were single-player games, there are even mods that add bots or tune instances to make them soloable.

More recent versions are much more difficult to emulate unfortunately so none of them has the same level of playability of vanilla/tbc/wotlk and probably never will.

Then there are much less “lucky” games, in that the interest about them is so much smaller than WoW that there’s not enough manpower to reverse engineer them, it’s sad.

If we could have at least the server specifications, it would help community so much in preserving all MMOs.

While contacting people I personally know I’m calling it “right to ownership”, I don’t have pictures tho, just talking to people.

I’m EU and - in my personal opinion - people here generally understand “consumer rights” better than “expiration dates”, it may not work as well in every country.

Thanks :)

The company I work for did the same, it’s not easy to completely replace an onpremise virtual farm but we’re working on it :)

I did this when I started to use Lemmy during the reddit protest, to explain the general concept of the fediverse to reddit refugees not used to decentralized platforms: https://imgur.com/a/fediverse-redditors-fiLOmI7

It’s probably not exactly what you’re looking for but could it be a start?

It’s not ready yet (preview state) but NexusMods is developing an app for managing all their mods: https://github.com/Nexus-Mods/NexusMods.App, for Linux they’re releasing both an appimage and a standard setup.

Didn’t Ubuntu propose the same a while ago and had to step back because of all the backslash?

Is the change coming from Red Had this time? They’re enterprise only so it’s possible they don’t care about home users whom are the ones still in need of 32bit libraries, I think big enterprises would use Windows virtual machines for that.

I’m not personally impacted since I use Linux MX on my gaming desktop (Debian based) and Debian stood up during the Ubuntu debacle to state they have no intention whatsoever to remove 32bit libraries in the foreseeable future, but it’s certainly a blow for a lot of people, I hope Fedora change their mind about it.

It is mind-blowing indeed! Especially when they said it would take 11 of those maps to show the distance between a proton and en electron, it’s inconceivable how empty even the matter we’re surrounded by is.