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China's internet is upset that a knock-off of its darling video game, 'Black Myth: Wukong,' is listed on Nintendo's store (www.businessinsider.com)

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[-] [email protected] 13 points 5 months ago* (last edited 5 months ago)

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.

[-] [email protected] 5 points 5 months ago

Open source licenses also depend on copyright. The opposite of copyright is IP anarchy.

[+] [email protected] -46 points 5 months ago

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

[-] [email protected] 15 points 5 months ago

Copyright infringement also means small creators get their lunch money stolen by big Chinese corporations. Copyright doesn’t just protect corpos.

[-] [email protected] -1 points 5 months ago

Yeah the individuals deserve to be protected but I have no care for corpos losing to other corpos

[-] [email protected] 10 points 5 months ago

How does the local economy fair against Western countries? Is it on par?

[-] [email protected] 1 points 5 months ago

It's actually better, NGL

[+] [email protected] -32 points 5 months ago

What’re you asking? This practice greatly benefits locals if you ask me :)

[-] [email protected] 13 points 5 months ago

Sure, at the cost of the people doing the work to design the product not being compensated for their labor.

[-] [email protected] 22 points 5 months ago* (last edited 5 months ago)

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.

[-] [email protected] 8 points 5 months ago

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.

[-] [email protected] 7 points 5 months ago* (last edited 5 months ago)

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.

[-] [email protected] 2 points 5 months ago* (last edited 5 months ago)

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..

[-] [email protected] 3 points 5 months ago

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.

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