Hi, I watched a report on BBC news about inappropriate community hosted clone sites of the original Club Penguin ran by Disney. If you want to catch up, here's article about the case: https://www.bbc.com/news/technology-52677039
While I was watching the report, I was wondering how did the authors of the community sites get away with running them in the first place and how is it, that there are multiple clone sites like this? I thought, that Disney is quite strict with their intellectual property.
Are they safe because the whole thing has been backwards engineered? (They are using the original artwork, so i doubt that) Is the "comunity server" some kind of unofficial open source?
If you know something about this, please share. I§m quite fascinated about the whole thing.Thank you.