I think the intellectual property regime is an inhuman abomination and advocating in its favour should be a criminal act.
If it is not destroyed, AI companies will use it to completely enslave us.
AI companies ARE already the government, we should strive to disempower them at every turn before it’s too late.
If you’re not going to address the contents then I’m putting you on my blocklist
How will it be installed once the deal closes?
Assuming default settings, the EA App runs a background service with elevated privileges (often as TrustedInstaller on Windows), and automatic updates are enabled by default. That means:
So, once the acquisition closes, any architectural changes to anti-cheat or telemetry mechanisms can be deployed silently as part of routine patching cycles. This does not require a new game release or user intervention.
Has it already been installed?
This is a fair assumption under standard security threat modeling practices.
Security best practices assume that any installed kernel-level driver is capable of full system access, including:
So yes, if you’ve installed a modern EA game, the capability is already there. The only real change under a new ownership model is intent.
Could this be a concern if the acquirer wasn’t Saudi Arabia’s PIF?
The kernel-level threat model doesn’t change based on ownership, the capabilities remain the same. But the motivations and likely use cases absolutely do.
It is a factual and well-documented reality that Saudi Arabia is:
In that context, PIF’s ownership of a widely installed, privileged software platform, with millions of endpoints and baked-in telemetry infrastructure, is not just theoretical risk, it’s an active national security concern.
It’s reasonable to assume that whatever institutional restraint EA may have had about using anti-cheat for more than gameplay integrity may now be loosened, or removed entirely.
Does this apply to all EA games? Is it properly disclosed?
EA claims that kernel-level anti-cheat is used “selectively”, primarily in high-profile online multiplayer titles. However:
So while it’s technically true that not all EA games use kernel anti-cheat, the lack of disclosure and difficulty in verifying makes it functionally impossible for the average user to know which games are safe, especially given the bundled update system that can install new software silently at any time.
Games purchased outside the EA App (e.g., on Steam or Epic) often still require the EA launcher to run, meaning kernel drivers can still be deployed through those channels.
disconnect the glass fiber that is flashing heinous light into my house and be happy with whatever still lives
Will you do retain this attitude when all of culture has been put behind the dignity-wall and requires a neuralink brainchip for digital rights management purposes ?
What will you do when the last DRM unencumbered piece of entertainment is playing with a bunch of rocks and sticks ?
Well the original title is “Video gamer Electronic Arts to be bought in largest-ever private equity buyout valued at $55 billion” Which only points to “wow this is large exchange of capital”
And the text of the article is just investor-centric propaganda like
"PIF, which was currently the largest insider stakeholder in Electronic Arts, will be rolling over its existing 9.9% investment in the company. "
or meaningless puff like
“The IPO came seven years after EA was founded by former Apple employee William “Trip” Hawkins, who began playing analog versions of baseball and football made by “Strat-O-Matic” as a teenager during the 1960s”
Ultimately concluding with “By going private, EA will be able to retool operations without worrying about market reactions.”
“Hickey is unsure if the transaction is in shareholders’ best interest.”
“The financial backing and resources of the investor consortium should enable EA to increase its focus on long-term growth opportunities that may have been viewed as too risky or expensive as a public company,”
In other words no mention whatsoever of the ethical, cultural consideration nor even touching of the largest stakeholders in the transaction, the IP License Holders and their interest in allowing a foreign enemy nation administrative access to their computer kernel beyond their own user privileges.
This is nothing less than dereliction of duty by this “apnews” company, obviously misdirecting the attention of the reader and quieting their non-sense inapplicable fears such as return on investment levels for the C-Suite and the interest of “Freedom Capital Markets”.
These rootless bugpersons are colonizing our attention, spamming their virulent thoughts to distracts us from real, imminent dangers while our hostile leaders are selling us out to the highest bidder, instead of being lined up against a brick wall next to a deep communal ditch.
I use windows 10 and debian 13 on proxmox 9 !
? I see this another post in the community with the same article
No, that post you mention, was posted 2 hours ago
my post https://lemmy.ml/post/36863093/21361452
Was posted 5 hours ago and came first
Certainly, the true reason of the deletion is that my title was too evocative of the underlying consequences of this purchase.
Rather than the establishment-spun neutral titled crafted my the mind washing specialists at the pseudo-journalistic outfit of “apnews”
Who did not seek to cause trouble for shareholders.
I’m sure if pushed the moderators would have rules-based legalese with completely above board reasonnable reasons for the deletion of my post, it’s not even worth asking what they were. they even have catch-all overbroad rules for this exact purpose anyway. We live under the constant crush of censorship even in these nominally decentralized spaces.
A great fire is well over due.
Well, it’s a driver and it runs in the kernel with system level privileges. I imagine as long as it remains installed the computer will be vulnerable to whatever is in there. And it’s undecypherable compiled code so we can’t tell what it is doing. I suspect shady bits will use the TPM cryptoprocessor to hide any malicious code so we’ll never know what is in there.
Even if you uninstall it, it just says it is uninstalled but it’s not like you can verify if it really uninstalled it or just renamed the files to something innocuous.
I will re-install windows entirely as if it had been infected by malware, and I just hope there’s a way in Steam to identify all EA games and block them from every installing even by accident
Oh no, you are mentally mutilating me !
BTW, later BASIC dropped line numbers…
I wonder if ABAP has line numbers though, it wouldn’t surprise me
I remember, it was really terrible, we had severely regimented time schedules controlled by clocks and bell. We had to go there with hours-long bus rides. I remember watching the clock, watching every second tick while one person was talking to everyone about really profoundly boring things which they could not and would not articulate the relevance of beyond an immediate examination and far of idea of “the labout marketplace” in which we would all compete against one another to avoid homelessness and death. I could read on the computer at home about the things they were saying, it was obvious at the time this information would have no practical use whatsoever to anyone but I could not imagine an alternative so I kept going until they gave me some papers after 13 years of this. Of course now I understand why, we were doing appearance of productivity, as training for our future as obedient workers who would do what they were told. The subject of the matter was not the point, it was being moulded into docility. This is why there was no clarity as to what use the information lectured about would have. It only needed to appear to be productive and useful, it did not have to be relevant or interesting as we were a captive audience, fearful of this homelessness situation we would find ourselves in if we disobeyed. This was the social stalemate that kept us from being sent to the mines IMMEDIATELY, we were supposed to be grateful and happy that we didn’t have to work in the field, picking rocks and vegetables in the field with the undocumented immigrants.
We were a captive audience, this is why it didn’t have to be interesting, that was not the point, the teacher tried really hard, I could see it hurt them to be our jailors, they tried to make it fun, but we knew we were in prison even if we couldn’t articulate it. The teaching prison guards had their empathy eventually dried out and shrivel, they tried spending their own money to make it tolerable for us and they were met with disinterested ungratefulness, no recognition from us nor the bosses. The cheerful colourful decorations of our jail cells somehow made things worse, like something was wrong with US for being unhappy with the situation.
my nesting partner just licks my teeth clean
I have to agree, I could not justify it to myself.
If I were reduced to begging.
As someone infected with toxic masculinity, I am supposed to be self-sufficient and “a provider of surplus value”
So in the face of this failure, to at least maintain and defend a cardboard box home from the attacks of the police
I would discontinue my homeostatic metabolic processes.
I can tell from the statistics that many people come to the same conclusion.
And when not enough people come to that conclusion, our numbers get thinned out by states who engineer a world war
so as to cull the excess human population.
This is how a State maintains order and our physical security, you see, they are doing this for our own good
Makes sense, couple first times they use the weapon, they are clumsy, hamfisted about it and they leave obvious clues of inauthenticity. But each time they learn how to blend in and become more and more subtle until it becomes impossible to prove that is not authentic, that something isn’t “happenning”.
And when the nuance is so blurred anyone trying to point to it, gets diagnosticated
“paranoid delirium disorder type persecution”
And given anti-psychotic pills until they agree, it was just a delusion,
“nothing ever happens actually doctor”
So, bots automatically detect the sensitivity for emotional response in humans, then they repeat and amplify this response toward sensitive issues until it becomes a movement, a roiling positive feedback loop or anger
The only counter we currently have to state power is leveraging other states, getting them to fight one another until they’re so damage that they let go of their fascistic plans to enslave and tag the entire population. Russia isn’t going to politely send delegate to advocate against total state surveillance, they’re doing it, every state is turning fasch and doing it. They are to embolden, to empowered and they don’t respect of fear the population.
The only way to counter this trend is by distracting them with an existential crisis. They need “something” to save us from, when we are too safe and they are too powerful, they start treating us, as the enemy, as their pets, as their farm animal, cattle, we can’t stop them doing that but we can send them to clash against enemy states to dissipate their violent, dominating, malignant energy
SAP anti-competitiveness mainly steams from how twisted they are that they mutilate the mind of their users, making them unable to use other software.
In this way this is similar to the BASIC programming language, but SAP ABAP language is even moreso.
Here is a quote about this
“It is practically impossible to teach good programming to students that have had a prior exposure to BASIC: as potential programmers they are mentally mutilated beyond hope of regeneration.”
No, because all intellectual property should be abolished and proponents of the copyright regime should be hunted down with crossbows.
See you in 10 years when Raspputin sells you out again.
These scientists must be quite dumb.
Off metro cop always regret giving me sass, they usually regret for the end of their lives.