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Zippy Bot@lemmy.zip · 2 months ago

cmeu@lemmy.dbzer0.com · 2 months ago

I was thinking the same thing. I remember playing doom on pc and it was pretty clear then who the rights holder is…

They just couldn’t remove access, so it felt a lot less like I was “renting” the privilege