Comments by "Mikko Rantalainen" (@MikkoRantalainen) on "Reason studios demonstrates why piracy is completely justified by disabling paid, lifetime licenses" video.

Some companies already follow GDPR only for EU citizens. If you are a citizen of the USA, your data will be hold hostage and sold to 3rd parties whenever the service provider feels like it.
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@eliahabib5111 I totally agree that the only way to do business internationally and avoid honoring GDPR is to ask every customer "Are you a citizen of any member country of the European Union?" and if the customer answers yes, deny access if you don't want to honor GDPR. I personally think it would be better idea to just comply with GDPR but some companies disagree here.
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@bertram-raven Why do you think that non-European company providing service for non-European customers should have any legislative pressure from GDPR? Yes, if the company is European or if it provides services for European citizens, then they must follow GDPR.
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@Erowens98 Do you think that a company would be in danger if they explicitly asked the customer if they are a EU citizen and the customer later gains EU citizenship without telling about it to said company? I would assume that the court would decide that the company had no reasonable way to know about the changed status. If the customer contacts the company and tells about the status, then the company would be forced to comply (by removing all data about the user if they do not want to comply with GDPR).
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1:15 DRM sucks, news at eleven.
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The problem is that companies pretended to sold perpetual licenses when it was never their intent in reality. It seems that many companies have become less fraudalent and switched to more transparent "subscription model only" style of licensing where the total cost of ownership gets insanely expensive really fast. But at least those companies are no longer lying about the licensing terms. I would recommend using open source software for all purposes instead but I understand that not all software is available as open source software, so sometimes you have to make a compromise.
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