Comment on Palworld Developer Reveals The Pokémon Patents Nintendo Claims It's Violating

• partial_accumen@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  yeah now its brutal for anyone trying to make a living

  What patent or copyright is preventing you from making a living?

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  • ayyy@sh.itjust.works ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    Uhhhh…. You are aware of what topic you are posting in, right?

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    • partial_accumen@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

      Uhhhh…. You are aware of what topic you are posting in, right?

      Are you the Palworld developer then? This is preventing YOU from making a living?

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      • ayyy@sh.itjust.works ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

        en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Empathy

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• otp@sh.itjust.works ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  I think the problem would be similar. The rich and powerful would be the only ones to profit off of inventions and innovations.

  We still have indie game devs today. Imagine if any company could just copy an indie game and scale it up/polish a bit and get all the sales.

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  • riskable@programming.dev ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    Imagine if any company could just copy an indie game and scale it up/polish a bit and get all the sales.

    You’re describing the entire mobile games industry. You think all those top apps in the app stores are 100% original? No. They copied other games.

    Also, patents have nothing to do with that. Software is covered by copyright.

    Furthermore, “back in the day” manufacturing was expensive and required huge factories to build stuff (in quantity). The barrier to entry was enormous! People were mostly uneducated and there was not much in the way of “shared engineering knowledge”. Ten thousand people could look at a car engine and have no friggin clue how it worked. That’s why patents were necessary: Disclosure

    These days disclosure has become irrelevant. Any engineer can look at an invention or product and figure out both how it works and how it was made. At the very least, they can figure out a way to make it. Just look at all the Youtube channels where every day people are making complicated machines, parts, and electronics! The mysteries are gone. Disclosure is unnecessary.

    Since the entire point of patents was disclosure why do we still need them?

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