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LiamPowelltoday at 4:08 AM1 replyview on HN

> As far as I'm concerned, if the player wants to cheat he's just exercising his god given rights as the owner of the machine.

By this same logic: As far as I'm concerned, if the game developer only wants to allow players running anticheat to use their servers then they're just exercising their god given rights as the owner of the server.


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matheusmoreiratoday at 4:20 AM

This is just yet another example of the remote attestation nonsense where your computer is only "trusted" if it's corporate owned. If you own your machine, you "tampered" with it and as a result you get banned from everything. You get ostracized from digital society.

My position is this is unfair discrimination that should be punished with the same rigor as literal racism. Video games are the least of our worries here. We have vital services like banks doing this. Should be illegal.