Yeah, once one country has done it, the rest can join in with a flick of a switch.

The big sites are only too happy to hoover up and sell even more data about you.

It will be.

Zero knowledge proof is a thing, but we all know that’s not what they’re going for.

It does feel a little like going after Al Capone on tax evasion, but here we are.

There’s other games that do the sued for things, and they didn’t get sued. Tem Tem, etc. World of Warcraft’s pet system was very Pokemon-like.

Palworld isn’t even like Pokemon games. It’s Ark Survival Evolved with a Fortnite look and Pokemon instead of dinosaurs, as far as I can tell.

Blatantly swiping the art style and several Pokemon designs, and plastering it all over their marketing clearly pissed somebody at Nintendo off. They decided to sic the lawyers on them for something, even if it wasn’t what they were angry about.

That yellow Gengar with a machine gun on all their advertising for starters.

It’s like when you go to Aldi and see their knock-off products. Although Tunnock’s don’t have a copyright on stripes, diamond shapes, red, gold, chocolate, wafers, or caramel, there’s no accident that their own brand can be mistaken for the real thing if you’re not paying attention.

And sure, it may well hold up in court, but it’s still going to be expensive finding that out.

“Oh no, this is terrible” cry the social media sites, while working out just how much your passport details and home address are worth to advertisers.

I’m not defending Nintendo, because they are a shithouse of a company, but I do feel Pocketpair could have avoided all these wasted legal fees by not just blatantly copying a bunch of very recognisable Pokemon, and at best recolouring them, or giving them another Pokemon’s ears.

But what about “clean coal”? Checkmate, Atheists!

Isn’t that just because iOS rules mean Firefox is just reskinned Safari? Or do Apple allow other browser engines now?

How many of those 3 billion Chrome users were on desktop though? Mobile is the default for most of the world.