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I am not a native English speaker, but I doubt this being a reason why I didn't understand the point of this lawsuit, nor almost any sentence of this legal bureaucratese nonsense.

I can see the lawsuit will fall apart, because Valve doesn't have anything to do with it.
Developers and publishers make games, they hire composers to write music, or buy licences for existing music. Then they publish games in Steam, claiming all content in games was obtained legally. What Valve can do with it, except take down games that break law, when they get DMCA complaint?

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Hi, I hope Valve wins, and this parasite has to pay Valve's legal costs plus a very large compensation payment

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I hate lootboxes, but at least Valve allows to sell them on steam marketplace, and add funds to steam wallet. Weekly drops from CS2 funded almost all games i bought in the last 4 years lol. So for me it is a mutually profitable business.

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The PLM sounds nice!

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Quoting: mr-victoryHow are you self hosting? Is the server on your home network or on a hosting provider?

Quoting: SlayerTheChikkenYeah I'm self hosting matrix now.

In my opinion it's not really "self hosting" if it's not running on a machine you control, might as well slap it on AWS with cloudflare in front like everything else then :P That's just a personal opinion though..

But I'm using this https://github.com/element-hq/ess-helm as they finally added Element Call support which was the last major puzzle piece.

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How are you self hosting? Is the server on your home network or on a hosting provider?

Quoting: SlayerTheChikkenYeah I'm self hosting matrix now.

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Quoting: middle_pickupLMAO Just in time for everyone to delete their Discord account.

Yeah I'm self hosting matrix now with https://github.com/element-hq/ess-helm

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Quoting: middle_pickupLMAO Just in time for everyone to delete their Discord account.

Leaving it is like leaving whatsapp (or telegram or whatever depending on where you live) you end up deserted, though can be done if you just chat with your friends and aren't in any communities

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Quoting: PhiladelphusI did notice that video backgrounds were a thing recently while video-chatting with my brother. Nice to see that finally happen.

What does doing "\@everyone" actually do? It's unclear from the patch note.

It was working the same as @everyone (mentioning everyone giving them a notification), but without warning you that you're sending a very broad notification

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Quoting: SlayerTheChikkenJust letting you guys know the reason for the removal might have to do with it being defeated again, they are likely removing it from older titles before the high seas get to it for reputational reasons. Just speculation though.

I was actually thinking the same thing. voices38 has been doing God's work.

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Valve: "Wins" case against Rothschild patent troll
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Rothschild global influence:](https://files.catbox.moe/ba3ari.mp4)

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I did notice that video backgrounds were a thing recently while video-chatting with my brother. Nice to see that finally happen.

What does doing "\@everyone" actually do? It's unclear from the patch note.

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Sounds similar to what Owlcat did right?

Speaking of Stardock: Elemental Reforged leaves EA next week!! wooo!! Man the releases are just so many. TIME. WHERE IS MY TIME. I NEED MORE.

Today was Greedfall 2, and next week is Elemental Reforged. And I have like a dozen others that are recent too!

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I always thought the very definition of "indie" is NOT having a publisher...

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Quoting: Eocene84I mean, Valve knew what they were doing all this time. They had to have known they were playing with fire. They've been playing Russian roulette with this stuff, and the bullet may have finally struck. They could have and should have stopped years ago, but I have a feeling greed overruled rationality, as it usually does.

That being said, I doubt this lawsuit gets anywhere near billions. Hopefully it puts an end to this practice though. Hey, if Valve loses this revenue stream, then maybe they will be incentivized to make new games.

These are my exact feelings as well. Lets put an end to this miserable practice. It's for sure hurting people.

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Quoting: scainePure greed. Plain and simple. Just a bunch of copyright trolls.

Why be paid for our music once when we can bully storefronts to be paid for the exact same effort multiple times!?

Exactly. It goes beyond storefronts too. These organizations are bureaucratic parasites that unfortunately have been legally sanctioned to do this (at least, in Canada, they have).

I used to sit on a civil government board that oversaw a community hall. Our manager brought to us a demand that the facility pay a fee to cover music played or performed in the facility. This was the first I'd ever heard of such a thing.

The manager investigated further and discovered that not only was there a group with their hands out for playing pre-recorded music or for live performances but there was another parasite demanding "royalties" on behalf of the composers, authors and -- of all things -- the publishers too. Their ability to collect these "royalties" is actually backed by Canadian law. Furthermore, there is some sort of connection to the World Trade Organization as well.

While trying to recall the name of the initial group that contacted us, I discovered that, in Canada, there are FOUR federally-sanctioned nonprofits with their hands in the music royalties pie. It is obscene.

Studies have shown that very little of the fees actually make it to the composers and performers of the music. IMO, it is just a parasitic scam to enable the existence of these trolls.

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Quoting: Serious_TableSo they're going to start suing every other company that used Loot boxes, right? EVERY other company that used Loot boxes, RIGHT? Or is this selective bullshit

Corporations are risk averse. This is how the game is played. You go after the biggest offender to make an example of them. Then everyone else falls in line. Not saying it's how it should be resolved, but that's the way things usually happen in the US. Ideally, we would have a congress that actually passes laws in service of the people instead of corpos. Sadly, that isn't the case, so this is what we get instead.

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LMAO Just in time for everyone to delete their Discord account.

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Quoting: syylk

Quoting: pbSteam also sells soundtracks and has a built-in music player, maybe that's what they're trying to exploit?

You have definitely a point (or two, actually).

But I guess the soundtracks *are* licensed, by the producer/publisher of the soundtrack itself. Or else, the producer/publisher could not sell it in the first place!

About the music player, yes, that's a possibility. It means that every digital music player ever (including Windows Media Player, VLC, WinAMP, etc.) should license every possible song in the remote possibility it could be used to play one?

What about other stores selling videogames - dunno, Amazon, EGS, GOG, the various app stores? They should license every song in every product they sell as well?

Should the likes of Walmart get a licence for selling physical medias (CD)?! Yea! It's still a thing.

All that stuff is pure nonsense.

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Quoting: Serious_TableSo they're going to start suing every other company that used Loot boxes, right? EVERY other company that used Loot boxes, RIGHT? Or is this selective bullshit

Laughs in Magic the Gathering.

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I definitely noticed faster startup on web

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So they're going to start suing every other company that used Loot boxes, right? EVERY other company that used Loot boxes, RIGHT? Or is this selective bullshit

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I mean, Valve knew what they were doing all this time. They had to have known they were playing with fire. They've been playing Russian roulette with this stuff, and the bullet may have finally struck. They could have and should have stopped years ago, but I have a feeling greed overruled rationality, as it usually does.

That being said, I doubt this lawsuit gets anywhere near billions. Hopefully it puts an end to this practice though. Hey, if Valve loses this revenue stream, then maybe they will be incentivized to make new games.

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Quoting: elmapulI bet epic or microsoft are behind so many companies suing valve, especially ms, they mhave more to lose.

Considering how it was MS behind SCO suing Novell and IBM over Linux, I see a pattern of proxy-suits here...

[Ref: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SCO_Group,_Inc._v._Novell,_Inc. & https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SCO_Group,_Inc._v._International_Business_Machines_Corp. ]

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Quoting: pbSteam also sells soundtracks and has a built-in music player, maybe that's what they're trying to exploit?

You have definitely a point (or two, actually).

But I guess the soundtracks *are* licensed, by the producer/publisher of the soundtrack itself. Or else, the producer/publisher could not sell it in the first place!

About the music player, yes, that's a possibility. It means that every digital music player ever (including Windows Media Player, VLC, WinAMP, etc.) should license every possible song in the remote possibility it could be used to play one?

What about other stores selling videogames - dunno, Amazon, EGS, GOG, the various app stores? They should license every song in every product they sell as well?

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Will be surprised if this doesn't get thrown out. They are trying to extort Valve.

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There is already an xml method to add options...
https://gitlab.freedesktop.org/mesa/mesa/-/merge_requests/12135/diffs?commit_id=b9129496a295f3aef7d96540556eced25961f66a

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While I don't understand the deep technical stuff, overall this sounds like a big win for pretty much everyone right? The developers, maintainers, gamers, etc...?

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Did the update and lost all my games, on the main nvme partition. I was even asked to re-login. I'm currently reinstalling my Steam Games. No problem for non Steam games like my emulation setup, though.

I was wondering what to remove... Valve solved the issue! 😄

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Quoting: Jau

Quoting: pb

Quoting: _Mars

In 2007, PRS for Music took a Scottish car servicing company to court because the employees were allegedly "listening to the radio at work, allowing the music to be 'heard by colleagues and customers'".

From the Wikipedia page. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/PRS_for_Music#Legal_cases

It happened in other countries, too. My hairdresser has a plaque informing that the music is only for employees and the customers ought to abstain from listening to it. That's where it's headed...

Smart 😅
In France you pay SASEM for any public diffusion and they pay the rights owners. But you have to have a public diffusion and it's clearly defined by the law.

The Sacem is also a bunch of extortionists.

If you pay royalties directly to the rightsholders, the Sacem will still ask for its cut. And if you only broadcast royalty-free music available in the public domain or under the terms of a Creative Commons licence, then they can still ask for royalties for some goddamn reason.

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