China's internet is upset that a knock-off of its darling video game, 'Black Myth: Wukong,' is listed on Nintendo's store
China's internet is upset that a knock-off of its darling video game, 'Black Myth: Wukong,' is listed on Nintendo's store
The new game for Nintendo's Switch has promotional art and a title that closely resemble that of the best-selling Chinese game.
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Copyright infringement sucks when it happens to you doesn't it China
Copyright sucks. Brought to you by copyleft gang
Uh, copyleft still depends on copyright. All it means is that licenses are free so long as the terms are followed, but it still relies on licensing. The actual opposite(s) of copyright is open-source and/or public domain.
Open source licenses also depend on copyright. The opposite of copyright is IP anarchy.
Copyright infringement in China is awesome! It allows one to buy things at a fraction of the cost because of such competition. A lot of western brands’ factories sell the product locally unbranded for 1/10 of the price and it’s awesome
Copyright infringement also means small creators get their lunch money stolen by big Chinese corporations. Copyright doesn’t just protect corpos.
Yeah the individuals deserve to be protected but I have no care for corpos losing to other corpos
How does the local economy fair against Western countries? Is it on par?
It's actually better, NGL
What’re you asking? This practice greatly benefits locals if you ask me :)
Sure, at the cost of the people doing the work to design the product not being compensated for their labor.
Yes, because that is where all the profit goes in Western companies, and not the CEO, upper management and stockholders...
You are not wrong in assuming that exploited labor is being under compensated, but different models of labor exploitation aside, people actually making value are not the people reaping the benefits.
Ok but it’s not done by a bunch of Robin Hoods, they rip off (read: steal and then destroy the economic capacity of) small/independent designers all the time too.
Oh absolutely, I was mainly targeting the notion that the way "legit" companies distribute the profits is somehow more fair.
If anything these markets show what the actual cost of production is, so it shows how much profit could have been distributed to those actually producing the goods. (Including designers, factory workers etc)
A lot more people could have sustainable incomes instead of CEOs getting their third yacht..
That's true, I would prefer the people doing the most work get the most reward. But currently they're getting none, so I would settle for some.
The ones designing the vast majority of IP are paid in wages, the ones who own the IP have not actually designed it, or played a minimal role, ie outlining what they want designed. Copyright is something that is truly unnecessary in general, it is at its best when protecting the vast minority of small producers who own their own designs and can actually afford to manufacture and sell them, but the bulk of the economy is not at all organized in such a fashion to begin with.
idk, purely copying western designs seems to be admitting they can't design anything new. Hell, they copied an entire Austrian village.
You're claiming that Chinese people cannot design anything new because they built a replica city? Way to admit you know nothing about anything China does and show your ignorant racism.
I'm claiming that if you think copying western designs is a positive, you're admitting that you can't create your own designs. I own some Chinese designed equipment that's pretty nice, but it came with the price tag you'd expect if you had to pay your engineers.
Didn't realize I'm arguing with a racist 18 year old lmao. Bye!