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How crypto bros wrested Flappy Bird from its creator (arstechnica.com)

submitted 2 months ago by inlandempire@jlai.lu to c/games@sh.itjust.works

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[–] Kolanaki@yiffit.net 11 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago)

So now they're gonna take on the liability of copying someone else's work, which is why the original creator kinda disappeared; they were worried about getting sued over both the concept (which he stole from a rather unknown game that released a year prior to Flappy Bird) and the use of the pipes taken straight out of Super Mario.