• thingsiplay@lemmy.ml
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    1 day ago

    As long as this is for single player games, I have no problem people cheating. But why does this need a patent?

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      1 day ago

      Because incredibly stupid things can be patented, companies want to get in before other parties (often patent trolls) patent ideas, and also to build up their own warchest of patents, even if they never exercise them. It’s a forced war because of a broken system.