Games & Commerce

Dark and Darker Supreme Court ruling nears; focus on scope of protecting game development outputs

South Korea\'s game industry is watching a Supreme Court ruling due on April 30 in the dispute between Nexon and Ironmace over \"Dark and Darker\". The industry focus is on how far courts recognise non-public development outputs accumulated during development and how they separate copyright from trade secrets. Lower courts rejected copyright infringement but upheld trade secret infringement. They also rejected a request to ban the game’s service, citing an expired protection period.

Crypto

Bitcoin $40,000 drop? On-chain analyst says it is statistically almost unprecedented

On-chain analyst James Check pushed back against market forecasts that bitcoin could fall to $40,000, calling the scenario statistically almost unprecedented. He said such a level would sit at the 0.4th percentile of the historical distribution for daily closes when measured with a mean reversion index that combines key on-chain indicators. Check compared $40,000 under current conditions to bitcoin trading below $2 in 2011, while noting probabilities are never zero.