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• Yet again, incompetence being the only thing saving us from fully entrenched fascism

  on Hackers Got Inside a Flock Camera. Its Data Shows How the System Really Works in c/technology@beehaw.org · 17 Sep 2026

• Warcraft is notoriously low margin by present-day live service standards, but it sure looks like they are getting there: the new race comes with $30 price tag and beta access is only in the $60 or $80 tiers.

  Wild prices considering a product heavily built on top of existing assets.

  on BlizzCon 2026 Announcements Summary in c/games@lemmy.world · 13 Sep 2026

• The answer to both is variations on public domain works can be protected by trademark and copyright. Type A isn’t Korobeiniki, it’s a new work. It’s the same reason why Disney’s Snow White is protected by copyright (for a little while longer, anyway), but the original work it is based on is not.

  You want this kind of protection. Otherwise works would effectively be held by the original artists in perpetuity, as a lack of protection even after they enter the public domain chills any investment in variation on those works that might lead to significant cultural impact.

  I encourage you to read up on the basics and the reasons why these laws exist in the first place. This sort of thing is how we end up with misinformation like “piracy is legal if you own the original game” and “it’s 100% legal to jailbreak a video game console.”

  on White House removes ‘Build the Wall’ game from website after Tetris company posts copyright warning in c/games@lemmy.world · 10 Sep 2026

• The somewhat sloppy English localization is going to raise some eyebrows too. Guess they didn’t want to bother.

  on Terranigma announced for PS5, Xbox Series, Switch 2, PS4, Switch, and PC in c/games@lemmy.world · 26 Aug 2026