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RISK on Google Maps Shut Down
mrokkam writes "Hasbro owns the copyrights for the game of Risk, as the guy who wrote the google maps based Risk found out. This was featured on slashdot earlier. However, he does not seem too discouraged and asks people to submit ideas for other games using google maps that will not have such legal wrangles." One thing this reminded me of is how cool Risk is. My office is now in its 3rd round... Africa will be mine!
Where can I get a job in your office!
One thing this reminded me of is how cool Risk is. My office is now in its 3rd round... Africa will be mine!
Jerry: "A game of world domination played by two people who can barely run their own lives!"
I kid, I kid!
"There is no time, sir, at which ties do not matter," Jeeves, (Jeeves and the Impending Doom)
asks people to submit ideas for other games using google maps that will not have such legal wrangles
Um... turn the Google Maps upside-down and call it "Ksir"?
"The game of conquest in weird superman's world!"
What is important is that copyrights and trademarks be respected, otherwise there is no incentive to create boardgames that furthur human knowledge, culture, and society.
Imagine if we didn't have copyright law. Imagine a world without poker, bridge, snakes and ladders, blackjack, [insert one million fucking games better than risk, even tho risk does rule, here.]
I agree with copyright laws with limited term. I agree, even, with moderate trademark laws. I do not agree with anybody who suggests that the value of these laws to society at large increases with the magnitude of the legal strength they grant the owner.
"Old man yells at systemd"
Monopoly.
-Patrick
"They never stop thinking about new ways to harm our country and our people, and neither do we."
Speaking of copyright and whatnot - your sig should actually credit the late great Mitch Hedberg.
Clothes make the man. Naked people have little or no influence in society - M. Twain
Yes, without this great evil, we would have an avalanche of innovative "taking someone else's idea and product and sticking it on the internet" innovation! I mean, it's not like IP law helps companies, inventors, and the economy (by making useful research/production profitable, by protecting ideas and by precluding problematic price wars with new products, respectively)!
But gosh darn it, we want this thing, and THE MAN is telling us that we can't have it unless we pay him money! That's unamerican!
Damn dyslexia my.
You might want to have the doctor run some tests for Yoda-itis, too.
Five percent of one year's DoD budget puts us on Mars.
its a risk to call the game risk?
I am harvesting funny/good quotes. Please help by putting them in your sigs
How about chess? Or thermonuclear war?
So, one can't trademark /copyright the word "RISK", but the poor chap can't "risk" it.
But if we open source it, on a server deeply burried in China...
Make some really poor chap over there sys-admin, with no known adres/phonenumber
Call it "ZIMOR" (Zimor Is NOt Risk ) or something GNU like that....
Should keep the lawyers busy for a while.
Why are other peoples sig's always more witty ???
Africa is a deathtrap. Get out now.
You can be as mean as you want to be, as long as you're funny about it.