Comment on Top EU Court’s Advisor Explains Why Video Game Cheats Are Not Copyright Infringement

• MossyFeathers@pawb.social ⁨2⁩ ⁨years⁩ ago

  The symbols would be copyrighted, but the actual behind-the-scenes value (i.e. 20/100, 62.5/1200, etc) isn’t. That’s what they’re referring to.

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  • notfromhere@lemmy.ml ⁨2⁩ ⁨years⁩ ago

    I mean what if you didn’t use 20/100 for the value, you used a symbol (in the code as the value). Would it still apply?

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    • MossyFeathers@pawb.social ⁨2⁩ ⁨years⁩ ago

      …yes? Changing the language or the way it’s presented doesn’t change the math behind the scenes. That’s not how computers work.

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      • notfromhere@lemmy.ml ⁨2⁩ ⁨years⁩ ago

        I’m not explaining it properly. Imagine instead of 100 hp, there is apple bananas. That isn’t really a mathematic representation in the same way that the cheat code can change. It would be a copyrighted work of art. It wouldn’t be trivial to build an hp system to do this (in fact it would be a large undertaking), but I am not asking about practicality, just what the law would find.

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