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> a compromise would be needed to balance Atari’s commercial interests (which of course they are entitled to pursue as the rights holder) No, fuck 'em. They ha
by Lammy 7mo ago
> a compromise would be needed to balance Atari’s commercial interests (which of course they are entitled to pursue as the rights holder)
No, fuck 'em. They had nothing to do with developing the game, and in a sane copyright structure a thirty-year-old work would be public domain by now.
- blizdiddy 7mo agoAgreed. Publishers need to be knocked off this absurd moral high ground. If merely being rich is enough for me to profit off of Miles Davis songs for decades after his death, copyright is just another wealth redistribution to the rich. Steal all the games and music, and any ghoul that claims I’m stifling creativity can compare their compositions to mine.
- Dylan16807 7mo agoWell, they shouldn't be entitled but they are entitled.
- maybewhenthesun 7mo ago> in a sane copyright structure You are not wrong. But alas we don't have that. ANd in the reality we live in this collaboration is way better than the alternative.
- blizdiddy 7mo agoWe know what the law is… the law is bullshit. Is it easier to imagine the end of the world than the end of capitalism?
- AndrewDucker 7mo agoWhat you can imagine has very little to bear on what they can get away with without being legally shut down.
- passivegains 7mo agoI mean, yeah. There's enough nukes locked and loaded around the globe to end human civilization as we know it in minutes. Nobody's made a bomb that can fix socioeconomics.
- maybewhenthesun 7mo agoNo. Or maybe yes (with the current US government the end of the world is quite easy to imagine... ) But what I can imagine has very little to do with what actually happens.
- Aurornis 7mo ago> They had nothing to do with developing the game OpenTTD started as an effort to translate the original game’s assembly into higher level code. It was not a clean room implementation. The original code was used as a base.
- Lammy 7mo agoWho gives a shit? It's from 1995 and nu-Atari had nothing to do with it.
- AndrewDucker 7mo agoCopyright from 1995 has not expired.
- Lammy 7mo agoAnd now we have looped back around to my original comment. I'll give you a moment to scroll up and read it again.
- WarcrimeActual 7mo agoBut it's not and we don't live in fantasy land. Your approach would have it shut down tomorrow.