3 ms·

I really ask, why the people do remakes (and mods) of games and risk to be taken down for copyright violations. I think, it would be much more sensible to inves

by wolfgke 12y ago

I really ask, why the people do remakes (and mods) of games and risk to be taken down for copyright violations. I think, it would be much more sensible to invest this creativity into creating new games that aren't burdened with copyright pitfalls.

DanBC 12y ago
"Super Mario 64 HD" gets over 250 HN points. "Cool Game I Made Using Unity" gets, well, not that much.
- wolfgke 12y ago
  This clearly shows that people love copyright violations. Why aren't they at least consequent and lobby for far more liberal copyright laws. One says "put your money, where your mouth is". I say "put you lobbying, where you HN upvoting is".
Rapzid 12y ago
Most of these project fold like a cheap suite and could potentially fall under fair use as they are not selling anything.