Social media is full of weird video game mashups. Where are they all coming from?

Artificial intelligence tools like Claude can now decompile video game software overnight to reveal underlying source code. Users rely on these tools to assemble game mashups and run console titles on personal computers for free. For legal professionals and digital artists, this lowers technical barriers to large-scale copyright infringement and threatens studio control over proprietary software.

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