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makeshiftreaper@lemmy.world 3 weeks agoYou’re citing examples from the 6th, 4th, and 18th centuries and arguably the last one isn’t even about intellectual property
Even ignoring the blatant “what aboutism” if your justification for why it’s ok to steal video game ideas is because some Byzantians were mean to you 1400 years ago just know that nobody is going to take you seriously
TheOctonaut@mander.xyz 3 weeks ago
If you think that historical context doesnt inform culture, you must be an American, in possession of neither.
DeusUmbra@lemmy.world 3 weeks ago
So, you’re saying that it is the Chinese culture to steal from others because they were stolen from? That sounds racist as hell.
TheOctonaut@mander.xyz 3 weeks ago
No, but this might shock you, other countries have different definitions of what theft is. Theft is taking something from someone.
The funny part being that it is literally enshrined in American law that game mechanics can’t be copyrighted, so its not even in the definition of theft in America either.
DeusUmbra@lemmy.world 3 weeks ago
Game mechanics can be Patented in the US, just look at the Nemesis system.
Also, just because a country decides that their definition of a thing is different than everyone else’s, doesn’t make it correct. Just look at Russia, they have so many different forms of lying to justify lying in everyday life, but that doesn’t make corruption OK.
On top of that, you were the one who defended this fairly blatant plagiarism by pointing to examples of theft.
prole@lemmy.blahaj.zone 3 weeks ago
I mean … this guy does have a point.