I don't think they wrote the comment because of the impact to Valve. After all, they said legal rather than ethical and the page already seems to be gone (hopefully just a temporary hosting thing due to popularity rather than a takedown thing, but it will soon become the latter regardless).
If you want these kinds of things to stay up long enough for many people to see/use them you have to work around the legal limitations (regardless of whether they make ethical sense). Most commonly, make the site apply as a diff to the original content/assets the user provides.
But what about the people who aren't idiots and can read sarcasm without the /s? I reflexively downvote ever comment I come across with a /s. People aren't idiots until you treat them like one.
Ah yeah the famously equal acts of pirating a game VS promoting illegal unregulated gambling for millions of people (and that's just the tip of the iceberg).
That's why corporations can get away with everything.
Yup. I was going to finally buy half life 2 today but now I’ve seen this I guess I won’t need to.
Hard times at Valve, I suppose they’ll have to find more children to start gambling with them.
I don't think they wrote the comment because of the impact to Valve. After all, they said legal rather than ethical and the page already seems to be gone (hopefully just a temporary hosting thing due to popularity rather than a takedown thing, but it will soon become the latter regardless).
If you want these kinds of things to stay up long enough for many people to see/use them you have to work around the legal limitations (regardless of whether they make ethical sense). Most commonly, make the site apply as a diff to the original content/assets the user provides.
lmao :)
Someone has to look out for the big guys! /s
looks like you forgot to add /s tag to your comment :swh
But what about the people who aren't idiots and can read sarcasm without the /s? I reflexively downvote ever comment I come across with a /s. People aren't idiots until you treat them like one.
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2 wrongs don't make a right.
Ah yeah the famously equal acts of pirating a game VS promoting illegal unregulated gambling for millions of people (and that's just the tip of the iceberg).
That's why corporations can get away with everything.
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And something being illegal doesn't make it wrong.
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It's only legal if you are a billion dollar AI company
Is that why I can't access the site?
It works on chromium-based browsers at least
Works in Chrome, Firefox, & Safari from my testing (well done). If there is an site access problem it's probably something on the network side.
legality != morality
In which jurisdiction?
Every signatory of the Berne convention or member of the TRIPS agreement, and most others too.