• SuperSpruce
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    2 days ago

    Full price EA games with F2P-style microtransactions and ads

    And this isn’t useless, but I can’t believe that to rent Photoshop for $20/mo, your creative projects are not your IP…

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        2 days ago

        I don’t think that’s true.

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            2 days ago

            Sorry but the same article links to an update that backtracks.
            There’s just no way this would ever pass without them losing all their business customers, any legality of such disclaimer aside.

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              I stand corrected. Still though, it shows that they at least wanted to have this happen, which breaks my trust in them.

                • Norah (pup/it/she)@lemmy.blahaj.zone
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                  Yes, that’s kind of the point. They wanted to steal every artist that uses their software’s work, and then use it (or sell it) to train AI to put those artists out of work.

                  It feels like the epitome of “short term profits at the cost of long term gain”. No one’s going to be using your software if you put them out of work. But I guess when you’re a monopoly the only direction to go is down.