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  • No, you would not get a sedition conviction for that. (Should I use drag instead of you?)

    Pirating movies is not a criminal offence in most of Europe, it’s a civil one, you would get sued, not indicted. Not even all criminal acts qualify for opruiing, just those directly against public authority. So basically you need to be asking people to defy the orders of police or elected officials. Asking people to shit in the Seine for Macron wouldn’t count either. Asking people to protest is also safe, so is asking people to steal from a shop. Only if the police says “please don’t”, and you do it again is what might be a problem.

    Also, the punishment for the first 2 convictions range from a warning through a 500 EUR fine to 60-90 days of mandatory public work. The third time is what carries a mandatory 2-3 year jail sentence. So it’s not a we’ll put you away forever law.

    Also, mind that this is an anti-Nazi law, similar to the German ones on Volksverhetzung. This is the law needed to hold someone like Trump accountable for stochastic terrorism.

    All that said, I think in this case the activists are right, and an EU court appeal might work for them.





  • I’d add Digital Combat Simulator to Il-2, it’s not just that they are great sims, they pretty much are the only sims out there besides maybe Falcon.

    That said, game studios are getting out of Russia as well.

    One aspect that isn’t being discussed though is that Eastern European gaming culture very heavily favours PC gaming over consoles. My guess is that it’s because hackability / crackability is valued, and people are uses to have to make do with less. That’s also why a huge percentage of the piracy scene is from Eastern Europe and Russia specifically.

    Just look at how even a comparatively westernised studio like CDPR is doing with consoles. And how most of Eastern European games are hard-to-get-into, use-your-whole-keyboard titles.

    I’m just saying is that Russia deciding that they will do domestic consoles is about as braindead as if Afghanistan decided to do domestic subcompact EVs. Hard to start up an industry with very little domestic demand. I feel that the idea came from a bubble of privileged rich in Moscow who are largely separated from mainstream Russian culture.