What’s wrong with accepting payment for playing a sport? I really don’t see a problem of somebody trying to earn a living by doing that

Selling a game based off of the hard work of a game engine: good
Selling a mod based off of the hard work of intellectual property: bad

Is that too reductive? It’s the same industry: game dev

Copyleft “fanfics” are what we call the entire SCP universe. CC-BY-SA is just like the GPL. Notice it’s not CC-BY-SA-NC (NonCommercial). Labor, even if it’s “mods” or “fanfics” is still labor. What, suddenly your work grew in value because it was based off of a different license agreement? The hard work didn’t change, yet it suddenly legitimately grew in value?

If i ever made a game, im making sure everything is released cc by sa and a FLOSS software license for the source code. Because fuck the mentality that says your work isn’t valuable simply because I didn’t give you a license to “my stuff”

People get mad when payment is expected for labor

That’s called regulatory capture and is a prominent feature of capitalism. Many big companies will form a regulatory cartel in the name of safety, but position themselves as the arbiters of safety and anyone who doesn’t invest as much as them is an enemy of safety

I remember when armed Pinkertons were sent to a normal guys house by a corporation for having a few pieces of paper with stolen artwork on them only a year ago.

Some guy got some magic the gathering cards early so wizards of the coast did what any reasonable group of people would do and violently intimidated the guy until he gave up his goods.

Definitely agree, but some people remain ignorant of that part of history, so you gotta use fiction to let them know that art mimics reality and that supposed fictional dystopias are here if you look close enough, and will absolutely be here if we don’t realize it soon

Cyberpunk corporate wars becoming reality.

You laugh but it just enables private militaries aka private police

Some games are not meant to be power fantasies tho, and that is absolutely okay

Free as in speech vs free as in beer (someone other than me should probably make a better version of this). Of course the cathedral is better, and if all mods were heavily incentivized to GPL then it wouldn’t likely be a problem. People like sticking with defaults in my experience.

You can trademark the word poop though