World of Final Fantasy is as close to a Pokemon rip off as you can get, and they didn’t get sued.

Edit. And now I think about it, the mobile game of Rick and Morty was very much a reskin of Pokemon.

It was the best of times, it was the blurst of times!?

Even Matrix 4?

We must be thinking of different films…

How do they detect it?

Are we talking commercial VPN like Nord or Proton? What about something like Tailscale to connect to your home network?

GeoWizard?

Or ask a neighbour to collect your mail, and take in your bins.

I used to use gpo timers to cycle my lamps to simulate occupancy, home alone style.

If you shroud the receiver you would block all but the closest bad actors

I think there’s no hard rules. I think in Australia, with the Dallas Buyers Club fiasco, the judge said a fair compensation for pirating a copy of the film was the price of the DVD, but because the studio were trying to sue a single individual for millions they threw the case out.

As far as know there is no precedent for piracy punishments on individuals. The best they can do is ask your ISP to send you a strongly worded letter.

It sounds like it is potentially more precise. You can use software to extrapolate the input without the typer realising their typing is being watched.

In this case the difference is that you don’t need to be in the same room as the typer

Wow was a difficult one to make. You’ve got the cliche of humans vs orcs, but in the context of Warcraft the orcs aren’t pure evil antagonists. How do you make a swords and magic story where neither side are the bad guys?

What can’t you play?

The charges have nothing to do with the content he uploaded. Are people so ready to give their opinion on AI that they assume AI must be the reason he’s getting charged?

For me, console gaming was for when my desktop rig was doing a video export or 3d render. It was when I wanted to sit on the couch and not be too invested in what I was playing with.

I think the Botting of streams to game the royalties is the bit they don’t like.

Obviously it would be a beach of t&cs

Can someone explain the reference to me?

Sure. Substitute “Lemmy” for whatever fediverse service it is mingling with.

If threads is incorporated into the larger fediverse, sure you’ll get a bump in dau, but threads will eventually dominate the user base. Then if they devide to cut ties with Lemmy sites, the fediverse basically loses 90% of engagement overnight.

One version is that a T800 model 101 want back in time and terminated him.