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I thought this would happen. They changed some of the pieces and such but a great deal of the games on omgpop are obvious copies of the original games like bomb
by zitterbewegung 18y ago
I thought this would happen. They changed some of the pieces and such but a great deal of the games on omgpop are obvious copies of the original games like bomberman. I bet they will be sued over other games also.
- jrockway 18y agoSued, but will they lose? It's not illegal to clone products. Consider OO.org and Office, bash and cmd.exe, etc., etc. Same ideas, totally different implementation. If we start calling ideas "trade dress", there will basically be no legal way to ever make anything again. Additionally, the claims from the Tetris Company are very vague. "Geometric playing pieces formed by four equally-sized, delineated blocks." If other industries allowed this, we'd have nothing today. Imagine Dell suing IBM because IBM made a "portable computer with a screen attached to the keyboard by a hinge". Just because you can come up with words to describe something you've made doesn't mean you have the exclusive right to make that thing forever. (I could come up with an example like this for nearly every real-life object I own, and every piece of software I use.)
- moe 18y agoI could come up with an example like this for nearly every real-life object I own, and every piece of software I use. Same train of thought here. Most of their criteria could be applied to almost any 2d puzzle game in existence.
- whughes 18y agoMost falling-block 2D puzzle games in existence copied Tetris anyway.. I suppose they're only bothering to go after the easy targets or the lucrative ones.
- zitterbewegung 18y agoTetris has a long record of winning court cases about tetris.
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