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So. For those of you who didn't pay attention to the details of the legal spat between Krafton and Unknown Worlds, allow me to give you some details of the finest legal comedy of a generation.

Krafton CEO looks at the hype surrounding Subnautica 2, goes over the contract between Krafton and Unknown Worlds, realizes he'll have to pay out bonuses and freaks out because shelling out those bonuses will make him look like a pushover.

CEO goes to his legal department, asks them to come up with a plan to weasel out of paying bonuses. Legal tells him the contract is iron-clad and to accept the loss.

CEO refuses to take the loss, asks ChatGPT for a plan. ChatGPT says the exact same thing the legal department did.

CEO demands a plan from ChatGPT, which dutifully spits out a plan at this point because clearly the CEO is a goddamn idiot.

CEO deletes the chat logs, failing to understand that 'delete' doesn't permanently remove things.

CEO follows plan, and is surprised when Unknown Worlds sues for breach of contract despite being told by both humans and an LLM that is exactly what would happen.

Court does not go well for Krafton's legal department. It comes out that after ignoring the sound legal advice of human beings, the CEO went to ChatGPT and asked for a plan. When asked for the logs by the court, Krafton's legal team states they were deleted, thus that it's simply herersay. Judge goes "Oh, that's okay, we'll have our IT folks recover them." Krafton's legal team is astounded that's even possible.

The chat logs are recovered. It comes out that even ChatGPT was in agreement with Krafton's legal department, and only spat out a plan after being asked a second time.

The judge, now thoroughly done with the stupidity of Krafton's CEO at this point, rules in favor of Unknown Worlds. Her ruling doesn't simply undo the scheme, but effectively leaves all control over Subnautica 2's development in the hands of Unknown Worlds, including the early access release date, reducing Krafton to just publishing out of contractual obligation. Krafton must also return all social media platforms for Unknown Worlds and Subnautica 2 to Unknown Worlds' control. Financial damages will be determined at a later date.

Krafton proceeds to violate the court order in less than 72 hours by trying to set an early access release date before returning Unknown Worlds' social media platforms.

Summary: In trying not to look like a pushover, Krafton's CEO now looks like a complete idiot who's going to have to fork over bonuses, plus court-mandated damages, plus whatever comes out of violating the court's orders. Krafton's legal department may as well come to court dressed as clowns after this. I suspect Unknown Worlds might buy the rights to Subnautica back after all this and either relegate Krafton to just publishing or find a different publisher for future games altogether.

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There's a terrific thread on Reddit about how much this is going to cost Krafton:

tl;dr if Subnautica 2 sells under 3m, Krafton doesn't lose any money, if it sells between 3m and 12m copies they are losing a TON of money, and if Subnautica 2 sells more than 12m copies do they begin to even approach making money again.

For the record:

firefoot22

inthefallofasparrow

snowkissedmonsters

Also on age verification: I have been on this website since 2011. Unless you think I started blogging at age 2, you KNOW I'm an adult.

dreamerinsilico

#the fact that 'can prove access to an online account at least 12 years old' or even 'account to be verified is itself fully 18 years old'#AREN'T accepted methods of age verification is such a telling sign of what the real purpose of age-gating laws is:#data harvesting and deanonymization and the buildout of state-controllable ways to restrict both content and internet access itself en masse (via @shinelikethunder )

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custard3unny

look at my senior officers dawg the space station is going to blow up 💥🤯🤣

tekknonerd

the-big-mood

I didn’t realize there were so many people getting destroyed by mattresses 😂

theswordofdamntheseknees

I love these so much.

genjichu

teathattast

beautifulscreaminglady

doomsday-dj

There was recently a copyright infringement case in YA and I need everyone to know that the following sentence was in the legal decision:

“Hot, sexy, dangerous boys, central to virtually all young adult romance novels, cannot be copyrighted.”

kuttithevangu

“Regarding setting, the court held that both works taking place in Alaska high schools was not protectable because Alaska is a public place and setting a teen novel in a high school is a common genre convention.”

Freeman v. Deebs-Elkenaney | Loeb & Loeb LLP

kogiopsis

I've read the entire decision (skimming over the purely legal precedent/definitions bit) and here are some of my favorite bits:

bemusedlybespectacled

“indeed, it seems that the Pacific Northwest (Twilight) is a common locale for finding vampires and werewolves at a high school” oh my god

derinthescarletpescatarian

Can't wait to run across this drama summarised in a three hour video essay

tekknonerd

After reading those highlighted sections above, I expect the video essay to be created by the defence lawyer.

bey

Don’t invite me anywhere last minute I enjoy doing nothing so I need to know ahead of time if my plan to do nothing needs to be changed

bana05

This is legit and people don’t realize it.

noahwyles

“hey what are you doing?” “nothing” “oh great! so you are avaliab-” “no you don’t understand. I’m doing nothing.”

embyrr922

I’m doing nothing. Actively. It’s important.

heroofthreefaces

This is essential nothing I’m doing.

octophat

imposterogers

I’ve been a stevebucky shipper since 2011 when I watched the first avenger and said “hold on a second” but the whole “you’re just mad your ship didn’t go canon” is still such a crazy argument that sprung up after endgame. like first of all I didn’t think they’d fuck nasty on the big screen, but I did expect them be friends and navigate the 21st century together— which is NOT a crazy expectation considering three films of canon to prove it. but then it’s like so you have no problem w steve leaving sam? going to a woman who had canonically moved on and told him to move on? living in the 50s behind a white picket fence and abandoning all his morals? cooking boiled potatoes and whistling while segregation is going on and his best friend is actively being tortured? while hydra infiltrates shield & world government? HOW did that seem like a happy ending???

imposterogers

it’s “happy” only if you abandon canon, turn off critical thinking, and see it as a self insert au. because maybe you would go and get the girl and live in this ‘perfect’ little bubble, and maybe you would want captain america to bust down the door and sweep you off………but it doesn’t make sense for the actual characters. they wouldn’t do that or like that, and for steve that ending would have been a nightmare.