News for hackers. Stuff that matters.

qaucnnnsicuwbr

Re:Super Mario Bros. Commodore 64 Fan Port Hit with DMCA on Wednesday April 24, 2019 @03:18AM (#19736260)
I'm no copyright lawyer but couldn't they have issued a licence to use the trademark to the author if this was the case?

They could have supported this as a homage to the franchise, supported their fans creativity, and gotten lots of free publicity to boot.

Re:Super Mario Bros. Commodore 64 Fan Port Hit with DMCA on Wednesday April 24, 2019 @03:15AM (#19736244)
But is a port running on the Commodore _really_ competing? It's only playable by a small slice of players.

If anything, it shows fans are pasionate about the franchise and it's generated a lot of buzz around it in the last few days.