That’s fair. But, like, you couldn’t build that exact game back from the crack, could you? Like, you can’t decompile to hex and understand everything in a game that complex usually. The cracks tend to be getting past DRM, but rarely allow you to fundamentally-alter the source code, or learn to make the exact same game within six to eight hours of release. This is new paradigm and pretending it’s the exact same as before is, I think, gently, a little disingenuous.

Would you spend 13 years making GTA VI if it was going to be cracked day 1? Why bother? Just let the users vibe code it.

But we could share in communities. We can do it locally. I can say to my neighbor, “Hey, my GPU is cold half the time, do you want to set up a shared host to split the load?” It’s still a solution, but it’s bottom-up. Yes, it would be more work, and a little less convenient. But the idea that only private corporations have the solution to this is not realistic. It’s a question of priorities.

Saying “you don’t need your own RAM” is the “let them eat cake” of this generation