How "crypto bros" appropriated Flappy Bird

Originally published at: How "crypto bros" appropriated Flappy Bird - Boing Boing

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Ugh. I get wanting to free up abandoned trademarks, but this is just skeevy as hell.

The code could also be covered by copyright, if they somehow got ahold of the actual code. But yeah, unless Nguyen complains, they’ll probably get away with it.

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Pyramid scammers also engaging in thievery through legal technicality? Shocked, I tell you!

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… aren’t most of those “graphical assets” actually owned by Nintendo :thinking:

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There needs to be some way to flip them the bird.

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