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  • It was such an insane pricing policy, too. Charging per download opens the door to some extremely hostile manipulation opportunities for bigger companies.

    Imagine you’re an indie dev. You made a really great game and it’s doing well. But uh oh, I’m a wealthy AAA publishing company and I don’t like you cutting into my market share. I can just buy 100 copies of your game and setup 100 virtual machines to constantly download, uninstall, and redownload your game until you’re bankrupt. If that’s not causing enough damage I can get 1000 copies. Hell, I can probably get some of my employees to convince you to give me steam keys so I don’t even have to pay you upfront.









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    12 days ago

    Free AI training.

    Back in the day they’d give you two words in wonky text. One word they knew, one they needed your help with to improve their ability to scan books and documents into a digital format. They didn’t explicitly tell you what the purpose was, and wouldn’t tell you which is which, but if you knew what to look for you could figure out which is the “unknown” word and just put whatever you wanted into the captcha for it to mess with their dataset. Good times.