Comment on Police in Japan have arrested a 36-year-old man on suspicion of selling illegally modified Pokémon save data to customers online

• frezik@midwest.social ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  Even if we agree with copyright law as is, that’s hardly a valid analogy. Save files alone are not a complete game.

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• ChaoticNeutralCzech@feddit.de ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  Suppose I’m playing an 80’s RPG on real legal hardware and I’m tired of grinding for XP. I use a cart reader to dump the save file, write a save file I downloaded from the web and finish the game. I don’t even have to access any copyrighted data to do this!

  Unless you think data that amounts to

  {
    "rtc": 1713006754,
    "savestates": [
      {
        "name": " Red",
        "xp": 1760,
        "pokemon": [
            {
              "species": 115,
              "name": "Fluff",
              "hp": 24
            },
            {
              "species": 92,
              "name": "Bonk",
              "hp": 11
             }
          ]
       }
    ]
  }
  `
  
  (abriged example in JSON-y format) is copyright-protected, that is.
  

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• LadyAutumn@lemmy.blahaj.zone ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  Unironically, yes. Copyright law in its present form should be completely removed.

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