Sony has started removing YouTube videos showing Concord running on fan-made custom servers, raising new questions about how far the company will go to shut down the community revival.

Sony is begging you: please forget about concord

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Imagine you create a product that is mechanically functional but fundamentally terrible. Only a tiny group is willing to pay for it, and even that isn’t enough to break even. You have no choice but to pull it from the market and discard it. Then the government steps in and starts distributing that product for free. This is your personal intellectual property, you no longer control it or own it.

Your comment is deeply frustrating. It shows a fundamental misunderstanding of copyright and intellectual property, which is frankly astounding.

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This is your personal intellectual property

In the US our Constitution only grants you a monopoly on your creation for a limited time before it ends up in the public domain.

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The constitution grants Congress the right to create public domain laws, and that’s it. With current law it’s decades away from applying to this game.

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I’ve noticed here on Lemmy that the general user base just doesn’t like copyright laws or have a complete lack of knowledge of what a copyright is how they function and why it’s beneficial to copyright works.

It’s actually really frustrating mainly because you get downvoted for supporting copyright which is insane.

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• The term endures for the life of the author plus 70 years.

• For works made for hire or anonymous/ pseudonymous works, the term is 95 years from publication or 120 years from creation, whichever expires first.

Dude. I noticed that there is a collective misunderstanding of copyright and intellectual property on Lemmy y’all need to read some wikis or something.

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“Imagine you create something that ends up being terrible, you can’t profit off it, and then people can get it for free!”

I don’t understand what the problem is here.

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Here lies the core of the disconnect. The property is not yours. When someone takes or uses something that does not belong to them, against the owner’s wishes, they have committed a violation. The owner’s reasons are irrelevant; it is their property.

Consider this scenario: you write a book you do not wish to publish. Then an external entity steps in and announces that they will publish it and distribute it for free. You would rightfully feel that your autonomy had been overridden.

This is why copyright laws exist. They can be exploited, like any system, but they remain the most effective framework we currently have.

Sony isn’t giving the game away for free you’re taking it by force.

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