• Didros@beehaw.org
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    15 days ago

    Doubt that any company would get away with this. Maybe only biggest hundred or so

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      15 days ago

      This is literally what Nintendo is doing right now.

      They filled this suit, and only THEN filed for a bunch of extra patents they didn’t already have in order to increase the damages they could claim from Pocket Pair for being in violation.

      I already think patents for game design mechanics are idiotic an unethical, but this is absolutely insane.

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        15 days ago

        Yeah, I said “get away with” and you said “they are doing” these can both be true, and I even provided the reason, too big to fail.

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          14 days ago

          Not only are they getting away with it, it looks like they’ll continue to benefit from it.

          I’m not sure what reality you’re living to think they’re not.

          • Didros@beehaw.org
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            13 days ago

            Future tense is used for denoting events that have not happened yet. And also, why do you care so much? The world is fucked sixty five ways till Sunday, so why the focus here?

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              12 days ago

              What do you think will happen to them, because they pulled this?

              so why the focus here?

              I can pay attention to more than one thing. These greedy corporations abusing legal systems is why the world is so fucked. Trying to handwaved this as not mattering sounds like you admit you’re wrong