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Comment by gaius_baltar | Hacker News Reader

Fat Fritz 2 is distributed in the Steam Store [1], which is under US jurisdiction. Should not this be a good use for DMCA take down?

[1] https://store.steampowered.com/app/1587750/Fat_Fritz_20_SE/

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> Fat Fritz 2* engine with a massive new neural network

Ah yes, the $80 Stockfish engine.

If a game gets DMCA’d, can the players who bought it still continue playing?

Maybe but the person they purchased it from wasn’t authorized to distribute it or authorize them playing it.

They'll probably get a refund like with that unlicensed 1984 ebook incident.

Yes. I have several hundred Steam games that have been removed from the store (dozens due to DMCAs), and the only game I'm aware of having ever been removed from user's libraries was The Culling 2.

appropriately named, it seems

Never heard of ChessBase or the game before, but interesting choice on them to copy the Microsoft Word look and feel for their game haha.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ribbon_(computing)

Microsoft lets any program use that UI: https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/win32/windowsribbon...

I've only seen a few programs take up the offer though. Probably because the style is almost synonymous with MS Office as you've noted

Notably AutoCAD also uses ribbon=style interface, though I'm not sure if they use MS implementation or their own.

I used AutoCAD a while back and it wasn't the MS ribbon UI but custom.

One point of writing for macos or Windows is to follow the system guidelines.

So a good program should look and feel similar to other programs

Worth pointing out that ChessBase isn't strictly a game, it's more a research tool aimed at pros and club players. That said, it is a pretty poor UI even for those purposes.

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