Comment on Palworld Developer Reveals The Pokémon Patents Nintendo Claims It's Violating

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• piecat@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  Patents shouldn’t exist! Mostly.

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  • partial_accumen@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    Patents shouldn’t exist! Mostly.

    We had a history before patents/copyright were enforced. It was pretty brutal for anyone trying to make a living with their creations. Take a look and see if you want to return to that.

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    • Grass@sh.itjust.works ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

      yeah now its brutal for anyone trying to make a living and excellent for anyone who already inherited a living and has more money than they could use in multiple lifetimes. I’d hate to go back to when it was just brutal for anyone trying to make a living.

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      • otp@sh.itjust.works ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

        I think the problem would be similar. The rich and powerful would be the only ones to profit off of inventions and innovations.

        We still have indie game devs today. Imagine if any company could just copy an indie game and scale it up/polish a bit and get all the sales.

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      • partial_accumen@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

        yeah now its brutal for anyone trying to make a living

        What patent or copyright is preventing you from making a living?

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    • starman2112@sh.itjust.works ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

      A shitty solution for a shitty situation is not a good solution

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      • partial_accumen@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

        A shitty solution for a shitty situation is not a good solution

        Feel free to share your revolutionary idea that will still incentivize people to create without creating a “shitty situation”.

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  • TheEighthDoctor@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    Patents are not the problem, they serve as a way to share the knowledge of a creation with everyone while protecting your company for a REASONABLE TIME to compensate for the RnD costs.

    The problem is the distortion of the concept to fit late stage capitalism delights.

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• ouch@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  I concur. I hope this goes to court and the judge throws those patents out.

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  • merthyr1831@lemmy.ml ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    that’s the only hope, because Nintendo knows that as long as it goes to court, they can bleed out the palworld developers with endless legal attrition. I’m sure they know that these patents aren’t concrete; they’re just an easy way to drag people to court who can’t afford to fight back

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