• 🇰 🌀 🇱 🇦 🇳 🇦 🇰 🇮 @pawb.socialEnglish
    22·
    4 hours ago

    Warner Brothers would have your ass first for violating their copyright on Tom and Jerry.

    Also: Nintendo has gotta be the shittiest patent trolls ever. Like, I am used to hearing about the kinds that just patent a fuckton of random shit that does not already exist in the hopes someone actually invents the thing; but Nintendo has been applying for patents for things that already exist and are done by hella people, just to litigate their competition to death recently.

  • AllNewTypeFace@leminal.space
    14·
    4 hours ago

    IIRC, Sony paid Disney a small royalty for every MemoryStick with MagicGate DRM capabilities sold, because Disney owns the trademark on the word “Magic” in the context of entertainment media.

  • Kraiden@piefed.socialEnglish
    17·
    6 hours ago

    I wonder if they’re aware how their aggressive copyright stance is making them be perceived, or if they just don’t care.

    I’m guessing it’s the latter

    • Ryanmiller70@lemmy.zip
      10·
      4 hours ago

      They don’t care cause it won’t affect them financially. People get upset, but there’s so many that don’t care that it doesn’t matter. Just look at the backlash to the Switch 2 game prices only for it to become one of the best selling systems day 1. Then there’s the outrage over Pokemon Sword and Shield cutting tons of Pokemon and the lackluster visuals only for them to be some of the best selling Pokemon games.

    • CosmicTurtle0@lemmy.dbzer0.comEnglish
      20·
      6 hours ago

      Like most businesses, they’ve done the math.

      Whatever PR value they lose is nowhere near the amount of value they think they will retain.

    • Asafum@feddit.nl
      13·
      8 hours ago

      Ughhh and here I was just about to start selling Micheal Vick Simulator 2025 on Steam… Fucking Nintendo