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If a steamy science-fiction visual novel sounds like something you’d enjoy – this title is sure to grab your attention!

3001: A Lust Odyssey is focusing on exploring the final frontier. The game is packed with romance and multiple references to popular sci-fi culture, as you play as a young male ensign and build up your career.

Now on GOG!
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Vainamoinen: It's not showing. If I click the link, I get a random selection of games. If I search for 3001 in the entire catalog, no results.
Yes, sadly that's "normal". GOG can't be bothered to implement an effective method of age verification. So instead, they use IP-based geo-blocking as a lazy alternative to comply with German youth protection laws.
Post edited June 02, 2024 by g2222
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MarkoH01: I got curious and skipped a bit through the free itch release ... it's not just stargate and star trek they used every big scifi franchise they could think of - they even included avatar (using the original subtitle font for the text in those scenes). They are basically asking for getting a copyright claim. There's a slim chance though that they asked for permission but somehow I doubt this.
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SargonAelther: I assume they are treating this as a parody, which falls under fair use, just like all those parody movies from the 1980-2010 period. No one sued Space Balls.

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wolfsite: Now I'm curious if a variant of Dark Helmet will appear.
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SargonAelther: It would be pretty cool to have a pathetic Vader type.
This, if you look at some of the live action Porn Parodies, they literally use props and names that are from the universe or very closely resemble the universe props. That's fair use
Even so, most companies don't even get pissy if you use their Assets, look at commercial 3D Fanart.
Nintendo is one of the few that sometimes get really idiotic about it.
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Vainamoinen: It's not showing. If I click the link, I get a random selection of games. If I search for 3001 in the entire catalog, no results.
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g2222: Yes, sadly that's "normal". GOG can't be bothered to implement an effective method of age verification. So instead, they use IP-based geo-blocking as a lazy alternative to comply with German youth protection laws.
Not even Steam can be bothered to implement such an idiotic verification. Germany needs to stop living in the 19th well ok.......20th century.
Post edited June 02, 2024 by Reaper9988
I swear, this place is getting more and more unbearable by the day. It sucks, man. I loved GOG so much and to see them fall so hard is insane.

Bring back Marcin Iwinski.
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mk47at: How similar can/may a parody be?
Depending where you live, there may be no such thing as parody law/free use.

Japan, for example has a very dim view of the idea.
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JakobFel: I swear, this place is getting more and more unbearable by the day. It sucks, man. I loved GOG so much and to see them fall so hard is insane.

Bring back Marcin Iwinski.
What parts are unberable, and who is Marcin?
Post edited June 02, 2024 by dnovraD
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mk47at: How similar can/may a parody be?
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dnovraD: Depending where you live, there may be no such thing as parody law/free use.

Japan, for example has a very dim view of the idea.
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JakobFel: I swear, this place is getting more and more unbearable by the day. It sucks, man. I loved GOG so much and to see them fall so hard is insane.

Bring back Marcin Iwinski.
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dnovraD: What parts are unberable, and who is Marcin?
The fact that they shovel this garbageware onto the site relentlessly. GOG "curation" means jack crap nowadays and these games prove that.

Marcin was the founder/CEO of CD Projekt. He was pressured out because of Cyberpunk's rushed release (which, itself, was the fault of the investors) and shortly after he left, they started changing all sorts of internal policies. Can't really go further in-depth since it'll inevitably be considered "political" subject matter.
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g2222: Yes, sadly that's "normal". GOG can't be bothered to implement an effective method of age verification. So instead, they use IP-based geo-blocking as a lazy alternative to comply with German youth protection laws.
My account is from 2010 ... how old do they think I am ... ?
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Oriza-Triznyák: I wonder if Paramount and MGM knows about this . ( copyrighted material ? )
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Reaper9988: Star Trek XXX exists ? Why would this now be problematic ?

Looks honestly pretty bland for Space XXX though.
I'll admit I'm not up to date on my Star Trek porn, but those screen shots scream "we're not even trying."

Granted, they scream that in a technical sense as well, so I guess it's on brand.
Wow! That is some IP usage right there.
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Vainamoinen: Is Germany censored again?
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BreOl72: Wait, what?
Germany is censored?
Mind to elaborate?
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Vainamoinen: It's not showing. If I click the link, I get a random selection of games. If I search for 3001 in the entire catalog, no results.
The games on GOG (or Steam, for that matter) that you can't see with a German IP, are games that have no USK certificate.

Now: GOG could still present those games to its Germany based customers...but to do so, it would have to either
- implement an age verification system, or
- implement its own (GOG particular) age rating system in lieu of the USK rating (like Steam did for many (not all yet) of these cases).

But GOG has no age verification system, and apparently also no intention to implement one, and -so far- they also haven't bother to implement their own age rating system.

So, a VPN is your best friend, if you want to see/purchase these games.
These are totally legal for German users/customers to use here on GOG, since the use of VPNs is completely legal in Germany.
So, neither you (by using a VPN), nor GOG (by allowing you access to its site through use of a VPN), is violating German law.

Apart from all that:
Germany is not "censored" (as you stated in your initial post) - it's simply "geo-blocked" (again: in cases where a game has no USK-Certificate).

"Censorship", respectively "being censored", is something completely different.
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SargonAelther: I assume they are treating this as a parody, which falls under fair use
That statement is partially correct, but not fully.

Yes, parody falls under fair use, that is true.

But what is not true is that parody is an excuse to steal an unlimited amount of another IP's elements without permission.

Fair use has its limits, and the makers of this game are way over those limits.
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SargonAelther: I assume they are treating this as a parody, which falls under fair use
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Ancient-Red-Dragon: That statement is partially correct, but not fully.

Yes, parody falls under fair use, that is true.

But what is not true is that parody is an excuse to steal an unlimited amount of another IP's elements without permission.

Fair use has its limits, and the makers of this game are way over those limits.
What do you care?
You don't want to play it anyway.
To boldly...

LOL
Porn, the final frontier :P.
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SargonAelther: No one sued Space Balls.
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BreOl72: Because Mel Brooks asked George Lucas, whether he could make fun of his franchise.
Lucas said: "ok - but under one condition, only: no merchandise!"
Well, if you know the movie, you know how Mel reacted to that condition. XD
If he actually did that, then it was almost certainly done out of courtesy, rather than anything else, as Parody falls under fair use.

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Breja: The difference is that in Space Balls the Death Star was a giant maid with a vacuum cleaner and Millenium Falcon was an RV with wings. In this game DS9 is DS9 and the Enterprise is the Enterprise. Not even a token effort was made to change the models.
Space Balls mocks many other movies, not just Star Wars. It also mocks Star Trek, Alien, Planet of the Apes, etc, and he was a lot less concerned with changing those. In the case of alien, he even hired the same exact actor who played the first victim of the chest burster in the original Alien, to reprise his role, so he could say "Oh no, not again".

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Reaper9988: This, if you look at some of the live action Porn Parodies, they literally use props and names that are from the universe or very closely resemble the universe props. That's fair use
Even so, most companies don't even get pissy if you use their Assets, look at commercial 3D Fanart.
Nintendo is one of the few that sometimes get really idiotic about it.
Indeed, even besides live action porn parodies, the early 2000s were full of parody movies, such as Scary Movie series, Superhero Movie, Epic Movie, etc, that barely changed anything, often using the exact likeness and names of various characters.

People just forgot about those and / or got too used to Nintendo being in a constant state of butthurt. While there is a chance that someone could get butthurt enough to take this game down, I doubt it would have come out on both Steam and GOG if that chance was significant.
Post edited June 03, 2024 by SargonAelther
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Breja: The difference is that in Space Balls the Death Star was a giant maid with a vacuum cleaner and Millenium Falcon was an RV with wings. In this game DS9 is DS9 and the Enterprise is the Enterprise. Not even a token effort was made to change the models.
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SargonAelther: Space Balls mocks many other movies, not just Star Wars. It also mocks Star Trek, Alien, Planet of the Apes, etc, and he was a lot less concerned with changing those. In the case of alien, he even hired the same exact actor who played the first victim of the chest burster in the original Alien, to reprise his role, so he could say "Oh no, not again".
Yeah, and that was (focus now, cause this is highly complex) the joke. There is no "not again" line without John Hurt. Where is the joke in just using the same exact models of starships and stations? It's not a parody, there is no joke, it's just lazy stealing and using the "my games has boobs in it" clause as a get out of jail free card.
Post edited June 03, 2024 by Breja