Admin privileges aren't the same thing as a kernel-mode driver. Steam does require admin to be installed, but it does not install a kernel-mode driver.
This would be true if the only alternative to piracy is not using said content or software. If paying is a valid alternative to a nonzero fraction of pirate users if piracy was not an option, then the piracy does affect the creators economically.
> Doesn't work for me in the Netherlands. Down since this morning.
Same for me. It is accessible from my home network (AS206238) and from public transport wifi (AS202189), but not from any other network I can currently access (AS201975, AS50266).
> * I want to call my friend in Germany. What time is it for her? I guess I'm UTC-7 and she's UTC+1, so she's 8 hours ahead of me. I know that everybody around the world typically wakes up between 6 and 9 AM and goes to sleep between 8 PM and midnight, and she's an early bird, so she should be awake.
> Without timezones:
> * I want to call my friend in Germany. It's the same time here as there. It rises at 13:00 here, but she's a quarter of the way way around the world. I have to look up their typical waking hours. She's an early bird, so is she on the early side of that, likely. What time does the sun rise there? How much does that change over the seasons?
This is actually the same thing. In both cases you have to know or look up that there's an 8 hour difference between the two of you.
The bits about the seasons and being an early bird apply equally to both cases, so it's not really relevant to the comparison.
> In PHP 8.0.X before 8.0.28, 8.1.X before 8.1.16 and 8.2.X before 8.2.3, password_verify() function may accept some invalid Blowfish hashes as valid. If such invalid hash ever ends up in the password database, it may lead to an application allowing any password for this entry as valid.