Why didn’t Nintendo sue over those videos of ICE “catching them all” with the Pokémon anime theme over it.
The White House removed a MAGA-themed game called Build the Wall from its website after the Tetris Company issues a statement online alluding to copyright infringement
Submitted 2 weeks ago by Fossy@programming.dev to games@lemmy.world
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QueenHawlSera@piefed.social 2 weeks ago
thingsiplay@lemmy.ml 2 weeks ago
Maybe they are working on it. First a cease and desist letter. If they do not comply or respond, then collecting evidence, preparing an attack. This is not a small company they would sue against, and Nintendo does not want to lose it. It takes time.
capt_wolf@lemmy.world 2 weeks ago
I sure hope so. Last night I also saw an Ocarina of Time rip off, complete with Zelda music, saying something outrageously wrong like “Trump is working hard…” Not that I waa gonna buy it anyway, but I’m definitely going to be pissed if they let that shit slide after everything they’ve done to the world of emulation.
Jomega@lemmy.world 2 weeks ago
Music rights are notoriously convoluted. It’s possible that TPCI doesn’t even own the theme anymore. (Or might not have to begin with. Believe it or not, that happens sometimes.) They’d probably be all over this if they did.
FearMeAndDecay@literature.cafe 2 weeks ago
The thing that annoys me the most about this website is that the base idea is cool. A website where kids can play free browser games that are either artistically or gameplay-wise connected to government. Like if they were the kind of games you’d play in a civics class to have fun while you learn about how the government runs and functions. Instead this idea is being ruined by making it partisan and reprehensible
NikkiDimes@lemmy.world 2 weeks ago
And blatantly racist!
thermal_shock@lemmy.world 2 weeks ago
Easier to spread hatred through games. Subliminal indoctrination.
SabinStargem@lemmy.today 2 weeks ago
I could envision some games. Say, a “Theme Polling” game, where you have to build and manage polling sites, giving people enough water, processing ballots, staffing, and so forth. A “Mail, Please” game, where we handle the mail and send it to the right places on time.
Maybe license Factorio or hire the devs, so that kids can get an idea of what goes into supply chains.
FearMeAndDecay@literature.cafe 2 weeks ago
Exactly! It could’ve been so cool!
thingsiplay@lemmy.ml 2 weeks ago
I hope these games are preserved by archivists. Not because I care about the game content itself, but for history.
kuiskaaja@lemmy.ml 2 weeks ago
yeah it’s good to have them to document just how absurdly dumb these years were when the orange was in office
thermal_shock@lemmy.world 2 weeks ago
Me too. History will try to rewrite all this hatred and make him look like fucking superman.
Amuro_eat@lemmy.blahaj.zone 2 weeks ago
More circus to distract the masses
DaddleDew@lemmy.world 2 weeks ago
How is there a Tetris Company that owns the rights to this? Hasn’t the actual creator of the game never gotten anything for it?
Ertain@feddit.online 2 weeks ago
Yes, the rights went back to Alexey Pajitnov many years ago. IIRC, he set up the Tetris Company to hold the rights.
thingsiplay@lemmy.ml 2 weeks ago
Ah, I never looked this up. Didn’t know he was the person who created the Company. That’s nice.
SarahValentine@pawb.social 2 weeks ago
TACOtris!
NaibofTabr@infosec.pub 2 weeks ago
Mr. Gorbachev, tear down this wall!
umbraroze@slrpnk.net 2 weeks ago
I can’t believe they posted a Tetris clone to begin with.
Tetris is a game where the perfection is taken away from you. You will only be left with your mistakes, mistakes that haunt you and which keep piling up when pressure increases and it just keeps happening until you lose. You are left with an imperfect wall.
Also it’s a game from Russia.
So, definitely a metaphor for the Trump administration and the border wall.
RightHandOfIkaros@lemmy.world 2 weeks ago
I am curious to know what exactly the copyright infringement was? There are a vast myriad of Tetris clones, none of which the Tetris Company have taken down. Copyright isn’t something you can pick and choose when to enforce it, copyright holders are legally obligated to enforce it on every infringement, or they lose the copyright. Was the game using Tetris IP music or something?
missingno@fedia.io 2 weeks ago
Copyright isn't something you can pick and choose when to enforce it, copyright holders are legally obligated to enforce it on every infringement, or they lose the copyright.
This is a myth. You're thinking of trademark genericization, but even that can only happen in very extreme cases.
Snazz@lemmy.world 2 weeks ago
I thought that was exactly how copyright works. It is infeasible to keep track of every infringement, so a policy like that is unenforceable.
Also its not out of the question that those myriad of tetris clones each secured some sort of agreement with the tetris company.
RightHandOfIkaros@lemmy.world 2 weeks ago
Apparently, the Tetris Company is a copyright troll / vexatious litigant.
According to Tetris Holdings LLC v Xio Interactive, the 10x20 play area and block shapes are somehow copyrighted, despite these being declared public domain previously.
Therefore all Tetris clones are somehow illegal. Absolutely insane.
thingsiplay@lemmy.ml 2 weeks ago
I thought that was exactly how copyright works. It is infeasible to keep track of every infringement, so a policy like that is unenforceable.
That’s why DMCA takedowns exist, even automated after an Ai recognizes a song in example. As this has some bad side effects in an automated process or even persons and companies misusing it either willingly or by not understanding, it will remain a problem. DMCA exists because it is unfeasable to keep track of every infringement, and an instant action is taken just in case it is true.
ThePowerOfGeek@lemmy.world 2 weeks ago
Taron Egerton is going to have to reprise his role as Henk Rogers in…
Tetris II: Blocking The Whitehouse
Tollana1234567@lemmy.today 2 weeks ago
should be hosting WHeres epstein’s perpetrators game.
Texas_Hangover@lemmy.radio 2 weeks ago
Pussies.
tanisnikana@lemmy.world 2 weeks ago
I want healthcare and food.
tacotroubles@lemmy.world 2 weeks ago
Sorry we only have money for killing brown children and propaganda
SatansMaggotyCumFart@piefed.social 2 weeks ago
We give money to the billionaire job-creator class so they can create jobs, dodge taxes and fuck kids.
deliriousdreams@fedia.io 2 weeks ago
Not true. We also apparently have McDonalds money.
Signtist@bookwyr.me 2 weeks ago
The government doesn’t care what you want. Politicians only care about themselves, which is why we need to make sure that they’re only safe and happy when we’re safe and happy.
HadzTheChronicest@piefed.social 2 weeks ago
“we need to make sure that they’re only safe and happy when we’re safe and happy” I agree and this reminds me of what happened in Sri Lanka:
_"On July 9, 2022, thousands of protesters stormed the official residence of Sri Lankan President Gotabaya Rajapaksa in Colombo, known as Temple Trees, following months of civil unrest over the nation’s severe economic crisis. Demonstrators broke through police barricades and tear gas, flooding the colonial-era palace, swimming in its pool, and occupying its offices while chanting slogans against the leadership” _ They stormed their politicians house. They had no power in their homes and when they stormed the Presidents place they found they had power and the aircons are all on and all this expensive stuff around the house. It was disgusting to see the president using aircons and spending money on material things when his people are in an economic crisis. It was a breath of fresh air to see people doing something about the incompetence of their leaders. The rest of us need to do the same.
Fredselfish@lemmy.world 2 weeks ago
No shit its fuck up our government is running a website with propaganda games. Beyond the pale the amount of 30% of country will continue to accept.
My kids have blown anxiety that we all learned the world is run by baby raping pedophiles but we are expecting to continue to go to work and school as if this is all normal. I am just fucking done and wondering when we going revolt. What will it take?
Ribbons@lemmy.blahaj.zone 2 weeks ago
We see you. We hear you.
releases shitty knockoffs of Dr. Mario and BurgerTime
adhdsergio@lemmy.world 2 weeks ago
Best I can do is you can have $1tn defence freedom budget and $5000 if the reps win the midterms
tigeruppercut@lemmy.zip 2 weeks ago
Yeah, but almost definitely not the latter
thermal_shock@lemmy.world 2 weeks ago
10 millions points required