#and then there's GOOD copyright infringement

[ask-crow-aus]

I don’t like copyright infringement if they’re doing it only to make money and not to help people. If you’re doing it in a way that helps others, and no, stealing from giant corporations (good) does not count here, then it’s fine.

prison is fucked up regardless but the fact that you can do a prison sentence for copyright infringement is especially insane to me. you deserve to lose your autonomy because we might have potentially made money from that thing. i imagined you did a crime against me so now one day you'll have to hear your son ask his mother who you are.

[guysonroblox]

[andstuffsketches]

finally watched Reign of the Supermen

[badaziraphaletakes]

As a rule, we don't post art, but I'm sorry, what the actual fuck is this??? ^

[identityquest]

redesign of my simple country lawyer

[hummingbee-o0o]

I...

(guys this is real, here's the ISBN and everything: ISBN 1435172507)

[bunabi]

A few years back there was a video circulating about Cullen’s VA doing some anti-woke nonsense and acting it out as his character. Was that you who did the edit of it? Because if so, I kinda wanted to see it again. I need a laugh 😅

Nah I didn't edit it 😭 that was all Greg's handiwork I fear

It's available on youtube somewhere I'm sure. Try searching 'Dear Cullenites' you're sure to find it that way.

[cringywhitedragon]

Looking away from the bad choice Nintendo chose to do with Palworld, they have done something good in terms of Lawsuits and went after some bootleg Gatcha games in China

Recently Nintendo won a $15 million dollar lawsuit against 6 companies that were producing and profiting off illegal bootleg Pokémon games.

These games, which are often Gatcha Games are regurgitated up onto the App Store or Google Play store in droves usually with the same premise (Take a traditional Pokémon game battle mechanics wise and make catching Pokémon locked behind a very very pricy and P2W Gatcha system designed to trick little Timmy into wanting more, sometimes there’s catching mechanics but no it’s all about that cold hard cash baby as after a certain point the “devs” just give up if there is even a story to begin with.)

You may have seen these in passing on YouTube or that one weird Mario Odyssey rip-off a few years ago.

The game that’s been placed front and center for everyone to see is a certain title called Pocket Monster Reissue (Yeah I have no idea what that title is supposed to mean either)

This was kinda the only video I could find on it. Yes it’s in Chinese but there are English versions of these games floating out there.

It’s your standard Pokémon Gatcha ripoff affair: Ash, Gary/Blue, and Oak (along with other popular characters) appear, it’s a rehash of Kanto because that’s what the kids want, megas and legendaries are oddly locked behind a very high paywall, stolen artwork, Engrish, etc… etc…

The whole nine yards or whatever…

Something you may not know is that it is usually pretty difficult for these games to be taken down because well… China’s kinda had a long history of ignoring international copyright laws to the point, especially when it comes to gaming, that when these things get onto the internet, can spawn memes because of a funny Swede’s reaction to a horribly colored Mario and the Flintstones theme song.

Because of this, and also the use of shell companies that bootleggers use to hide themselves behind, catching and shutting down these operations don’t tend to be the easiest things for ip owners to go after.

And trust me, these things rake in the cash because well… You’re literally ripping off one of the most popular media franchises there is.

This game in question was raking in at around $42 million in a single year alone, Nintendo filed this suit back in around 2021 seeking up to $72 million in damages alone.

Yes I critique Nintendo for some of their legal aggression because y’all need to chill with the fangames, but this is great news because these games are dangerous for a number of reasons.

Also to make matters even stranger, one of the defendants in the case is a manufacturing company. While this hasn’t been confirmed, this company was likely being used as a means to lander money through or something similar.

Main article cited: https://automaton-media.com/en/news/the-pokemon-company-wins-15-million-copyright-infringement-lawsuit-against-china-based-game-developers/

[kangpingyu]

why is gif making becoming a lost art in fandom spaces

[sentientsky]

anathema spin off series when!!!!!! (seriously i need it so much)

oh 100%!! anathema kicking ass, solving mysteries, saving the world??? aziracrow cameos?? ineffable bureaucracy thrown in there for good measure??? hell fucking yeah, dude!

[theflowerofthecommonwealth]

They must be leashed at all times. Otherwise chaos will commence.

Give your best wishes to Nick. He needs it.

[bobellafofella]

hello all!!! happy summer 😎 as i have been released from finals and have some free time on my hands i am wanting to work on something that's been on my radar for a while now --- a ko-fi/online shop!

as one lovely soul inquired about a while ago, i'd love to offer some version of my anne of green gables illustration, and so, question: would you buy a digital downloadable printout if i offered it? this would probably mean a high dpi file that could be printed out at home on paper of your choice! thank u and love u and peace

[vii-spider]

had some ideas for a pizza tower au/fangame/whatever earlier

[remythologise]

thinking fondly this morning of the creators of supernatural, who are good omens fans

[our-inspire-verse]

They deserved their own post.

[mossolantern]

shout out to that one homestuck brush set on the clip studio assets store that i was abt to buy but got taken down for before i could 😔