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AI Slop Is Ripping Off One of Summer’s Best Games. Copycats Are Proving Hard to Kill
"Peak" has sold millions of copies and is Aggro Crab’s biggest hit to date. That makes it a prime target for cloning.
Intellectual property attorney Kirk Sigmon says clones are already difficult to tackle legally; copyright protection doesn’t extend to a genre, aesthetic, or even gameplay mechanics. Platforms ultimately hold the power when it comes to ridding a storefront of clones, though smaller developers bear the brunt of the work in filing a report and sorting out who to talk to. In early August, the company posted on X that it would rather users “pirate our game than play this microtransaction-riddled [Roblox] slop ripoff,” in reference to one copycat.
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