“The Directive on the legal protection of computer programs does not allow the holder of that protection to prohibit the marketing by a third party of software which merely changes variables transferred temporarily” to working memory, judges said in a statement.
There was once a time when developers disclosed cheat codes to the users for free, then we went to “buy cheat codes “boosters” for our game in the ingame shop” and now Sony went “we own the game AND whatever is in your RAM, you can’t alter it”.
For everyone saying “but what is with multiplayer games” - they are not affected. The publisher/developer can still have in its TOS that you can’t use third party software that can give you an advantage over others, they just can’t keep you from changing your single player game’s RAM to what you want.
It blows my mind that in the US and the UK (and probably other countries) that voting isn’t a requirement. In Australia everyone 18 and over is legally required to vote. In practice, this really just means turning up to the polling booth and getting your name checked off the list, you can still do a non-vote, but you actually have to get off your ass and do something. If you’re part of society, I believe you should have to vote.
If you care so little for your community that you can’t even spare ten minuets of your life, you don’t have any right to complain about whatever the result is. People who refuse to vote do my head in.
Here in Spain sometimes just half of the people have voted.
There may be no good options, but as you have stated, if you don’t vote, you have no rights to complain later.
The one problem with this logic is that it doesn’t account for voter suppression. If we take the Us as an example, there is rampant voter suppression through gerrymandering, closure or relocation of polling stations, and regular old polling day intimidation. When one of the political parties is actively making it difficult to vote, the idea that those who didn’t vote forfeit their right to complain becomes deeply complicated.
What some parties are doing in America is disgusting, and I dearly hope they get locked in a deep cave and forced to listen to Coldplay.
There were people in Africa who were forced to vote for a particular party on fear of death. It’s basically that same as you mention, and I’m sure Trump would do it if he thought he could get away with it. Having the ability to vote taken away from you is not the same as not voting.
If you have the ability to vote and don’t, you have no right to complain about who is running the country was more my point.