They couldn’t just make YouTube suddenly stop working.

ffmpeg is published under the LGPL license, meaning that all of the published versions are free for anyone to use in anything, as long as they don’t modify the ffmpeg library.

The only leverage they have over YouTube is that they could stop allowing YouTube to use future versions. That could create headaches for YouTube if it turns out there’s major security issues, since then YouTube will need to either solve them with a wrapper / sandbox around the library, or write their own library, but any existing versions in use will always be usable by YouTube.

You think this even shows up on the radar of company execs?

Honestly, it’s fucking exhausting.

Cynicism is not cleverness and it is not informedness, it’s just reactionary bullshit that makes you sound edgy online.

Apple is such a piece of shit company.

Learn how to compete without behaving anti competitively or quit your fucking jobs. It’s not complicated.

No, Krafton’s explanation was clearer and plainer spoken.

Krafton may be lying or misrepresenting the situation, but their explanation is both simple and believable, if not necessarily the truth.

The GDPR is good and has absolutely changed how things are done. I’ve been involved with multiple companies having to change their European data practices because of it.

I don’t know why you have so little faith in the EU when it’s an actually functioning government that is passing new consumer protection legislation.

The problem with Brexit not the lack of clarity, it was that it was a fundamentally dumb idea motivated but dumbness.

It was a bunch of people who blamed every problem on the EU for no sound reason and thus they supported a self harming policy.

This is a situation where the policy is fundamentally sound, it just needs some clarity around implementation details. This is literally how government is supposed to work.

The way we bought it just requires the server code to be available to run, if does not require any specific company running servers. And running servers is not a suable offense.

Yeah, the three fired heads owned 90% of the shares, so they got $225M from the initial sale, and were due to get another $225M from the bonuses. That’s why Krafton still paid out $25M in bonuses after the uproar.

I mean their codebase more generally.

Krafton has claimed they asked for 30% more content for the early access version, which isn’t that minimal.

Subnautica isn’t just a survival game, but a story driven game as well, and given how janky their engine was, it’s not a surprise that they’d want to overhaul it from the ground up.

I genuinely don’t know what about your comment is supposed to be mocking.

You’re just describing the situation presented in purposefully more confusing language than the article.

The law is specifying the end user result. Keep the game we bought available to play in the way we bought it.

Questions about server binaries and copyright are implementation details for companies to work out.

That’s still inherently more specific than ‘that plus nebulous notions of workers rights’.

Also, that’s not nebulous in terms of end user expectation, that’s just nebulous in terms of technical implementation.

No. This is dumb. Activist movements get nowhere when they broaden their goals to encompass all things that would be nice to have. They become nebulous and impossible to appease.

Stay simple, stay focused. Win one battle at a time. Stop killing games.

The point is that no publisher demanded anything.

The developers made the game they wanted and launched it and didn’t go the way they wanted.

Splitgate was always a multiplayer only shooter though.

That really does not matter. Spend some time camping with no phones and notice how differently you feel and behave. Humans did not evolve to have smartphones and social media, it triggers numerous emotional responses without actually satisfying them, by its inherent nature.

Social media. You use it up spending time on Reddit and Lemmy etc.