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

• Grass@sh.itjust.works ⁨13⁩ ⁨hours⁩ 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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  • partial_accumen@lemmy.world ⁨8⁩ ⁨hours⁩ 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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  • otp@sh.itjust.works ⁨11⁩ ⁨hours⁩ 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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• starman2112@sh.itjust.works ⁨10⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

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

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  • partial_accumen@lemmy.world ⁨8⁩ ⁨hours⁩ 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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    • starman2112@sh.itjust.works ⁨8⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

      I don’t need to come up with any revolutionary ideas, the open source folks are already creating without patenting their creations

      Here’s a revolutionary idea: universal basic income. No need to prevent other people from monetizing your idea if you don’t need to monetize your idea in the first place

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      • partial_accumen@lemmy.world ⁨8⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

        I don’t need to come up with any revolutionary ideas, the open source folks are already creating without patenting their creations

        The largest contributors to Open Source make their money from patents and other IP. As in, they can afford to give away lots of time and effort because they make their money with IP. If IP were to be eradicated as you’re proposing, all those contributions to Open Source by those largest contributors would evaporate. Here’s the largest Open Source contributors from 2017-2021.

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