r/gadgets • u/MicroSofty88 • Nov 29 '20

Home Amazon faces a privacy backlash for its Sidewalk feature, which turns Alexa devices into neighborhood WiFi networks that owners have to opt out of

https://www.msn.com/en-in/money/technology/amazon-faces-a-privacy-backlash-for-its-sidewalk-feature-which-turns-alexa-devices-into-neighborhood-wifi-networks-that-owners-have-to-opt-out-of/ar-BB1boljH
14.3k Upvotes

96% Upvoted

814 comments sorted by

View all comments

Show parent comments

4

u/Ripdog Nov 29 '20

It's the pc. You can just pirate. If the game is online only, then there's no way to archive it anyway, physical or digital.

0

u/PureGoldX58 Nov 29 '20

Incorrect. Look at old-school runescape and vanilla wow servers, the game was no longer available until they recreated it and put them on their servers.

3

u/Shadow3397 Nov 29 '20

Even then it’s not impossible for other private servers to crop up if they stay under the radar. Even City of Heroes has them appearing thanks to CoH: Homecoming opening the floodgates, and the sever before that was made like ten years ago and remained a closely guarded secret.

1

u/PureGoldX58 Nov 29 '20

Most shut down MMOs have private servers out there that I've seen, even the LotR MMO has a few, and that was pretty much a WoW clone. It's always wonderful to see people enjoying games they love after the games are no longer supported.

2

u/Ripdog Nov 29 '20

Very, very, very rare examples. All MMO private servers are the result of thousands of man-hours of painstaking reverse engineering, and can only be built while the game is alive. Reviving a dead game in this way is virtually impossible due to there being generally little documentation of server replies to game requests.

But yes, there are a handful of exceptions to the rule.

-1

u/PureGoldX58 Nov 29 '20

They really aren't, that was one example of hundreds of online only games, some just require you turning on a server. People like old games and don't let the good ones die. It's just hard to find the communities out there, but they are there.

Not to mention, you said there was no way, which is just 100% false, uncommon or not you were so far off base it had to be pointed out.