• Jo Miran
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    789 months ago

    2024 will be known as the year of the return.

  • @[email protected]
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    99 months ago

    Correct me if I’m wrong, but doesn’t Nintendo HAVE to sue for IP infringement or lose control over their IP? If I remember correctly, Japan has some fucked up IP laws.

    • Ender of Games
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      309 months ago

      Short answer, no. Long answer, also no.

      You need to defend patents and trademarks, else you lose them. You don’t have to protect copyright- works you create are yours, indefinitely (creator’s life plus 70 years plus some company still exists plus whatever BS Disney comes up with next). Piracy certainly doesn’t involve the first two, at all.

      If Japan’s IP laws are f’ed up, it’s because it supports “holders” too much, enables patent trolls and gives corporations too much power.

    • @Ultraviolet
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      139 months ago

      No. The only case where you can lose “IP” (a deliberately misleading term that lumps together several completely unrelated legal constructs, none of which are property) is in the case of a trademark being diluted to the point that no reasonable person can be expected to know it’s a trademark. Things like heroin, trampoline, escalator, dumpster, dry ice, etc. That’s it. Copyrights and patents, which are different things from trademarks, aren’t lost until they expire.

  • Babou
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    -899 months ago

    “Preservation efforts” 😂

    The game mentioned in the lawsuit is quite new and still being sold. I doubt over a million people were playing it to “conserve” it.

    • Franklin
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      9 months ago

      This is a troll account above, just a PSA before anyone thinks they’re going to be able to engage in thoughtful debate

    • @Squeak
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      319 months ago

      You realise this is satire?

      • Babou
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        -549 months ago

        Yes, but the news story and the community reaction it’s based on is real.

        • @Squeak
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          I just read it. I can’t even see a game mentioned. What are you going on about?

          Satire is usually based on real life…

            • @Squeak
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              49 months ago

              Ok. But the article is satire. The reason Nintendo sued is obviously not to enshrine people’s name for game preservation… that’s the joke.

            • TWeaK
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              -29 months ago

              Nintendo also didn’t sue every single person involved in video game preservation. Thatsthejoke.jpg

              The “community reaction” you’re referring to doesn’t exist. People by and large are saying “no surprise, they did it while the console was still on sale, and they tried to make money doing it”.

                • TWeaK
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                  -29 months ago

                  You were exactly the one I meant to reply to. You’re criticising what is clearly a joke as if it were a real position and inventing controversy with a scarecrow argument.

            • Babou
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              -209 months ago

              The downvote squad doesn’t care about facts