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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

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Submitted ⁨⁨6⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago⁩ by ⁨Fossy@programming.dev⁩ to ⁨games@lemmy.world⁩

https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/white-house/white-house-removes-build-the-wall-video-game-tetris-copyright-warning-rcna596770?cid=sm_npd_nn_tw_ma

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  • FearMeAndDecay@literature.cafe ⁨44⁩ ⁨minutes⁩ 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

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  • tanisnikana@lemmy.world ⁨6⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    I want healthcare and food.

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    • tacotroubles@lemmy.world ⁨5⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

      Sorry we only have money for killing brown children and propaganda

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      • deliriousdreams@fedia.io ⁨26⁩ ⁨minutes⁩ ago

        Not true. We also apparently have McDonalds money.

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      • SatansMaggotyCumFart@piefed.social ⁨3⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

        We give money to the billionaire job-creator class so they can create jobs, dodge taxes and fuck kids.

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    • Signtist@bookwyr.me ⁨3⁩ ⁨hours⁩ 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.

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    • Fredselfish@lemmy.world ⁨5⁩ ⁨hours⁩ 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?

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  • thingsiplay@lemmy.ml ⁨2⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    I hope these games are preserved by archivists. Not because I care about the game content itself, but for history.

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    • kuiskaaja@lemmy.ml ⁨1⁩ ⁨hour⁩ ago

      yeah it’s good to have them to document just how absurdly dumb these years were when the orange was in office

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  • QueenHawlSera@piefed.social ⁨3⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    Why didn’t Nintendo sue over those videos of ICE “catching them all” with the Pokémon anime theme over it.

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    • thingsiplay@lemmy.ml ⁨2⁩ ⁨hours⁩ 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.

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      • capt_wolf@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨hour⁩ 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.

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    • Jomega@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨hour⁩ 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.

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    • spankysalmon@fedinsfw.app ⁨2⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

      Nintendo is also fascist

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      • green_link@lemmy.world ⁨20⁩ ⁨minutes⁩ ago

        aww someone is big mad because a copyright holder won’t let them steal video games. probably got big mad when they were banned from their online service for playing a pirated game online. poor baby can’t afford to buy a video game? oh no. get a job and touch some grass

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  • Texas_Hangover@lemmy.radio ⁨45⁩ ⁨minutes⁩ ago

    Pussies.

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  • Amuro_eat@lemmy.blahaj.zone ⁨5⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    More circus to distract the masses

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  • DaddleDew@lemmy.world ⁨5⁩ ⁨hours⁩ 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?

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    • Ertain@feddit.online ⁨5⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

      Yes, the rights went back to Alexey Pajitnov many years ago. IIRC, he set up the Tetris Company to hold the rights.

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      • thingsiplay@lemmy.ml ⁨2⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

        Ah, I never looked this up. Didn’t know he was the person who created the Company. That’s nice.

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  • NaibofTabr@infosec.pub ⁨4⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    Mr. Gorbachev, tear down this wall!

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  • SarahValentine@pawb.social ⁨6⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    TACOtris!

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  • RightHandOfIkaros@lemmy.world ⁨5⁩ ⁨hours⁩ 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?

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    • missingno@fedia.io ⁨4⁩ ⁨hours⁩ 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.

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    • Snazz@lemmy.world ⁨4⁩ ⁨hours⁩ 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.

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      • RightHandOfIkaros@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨hours⁩ 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.

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      • thingsiplay@lemmy.ml ⁨2⁩ ⁨hours⁩ 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.

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  • ThePowerOfGeek@lemmy.world ⁨5⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    Taron Egerton is going to have to reprise his role as Henk Rogers in…

    Tetris II: Blocking The Whitehouse

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