{"id":28546,"date":"2013-12-17T13:00:34","date_gmt":"2013-12-17T21:00:34","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.quartertothree.com\/fp\/?p=28546"},"modified":"2013-12-17T14:11:34","modified_gmt":"2013-12-17T22:11:34","slug":"motor-rock-throwback-simpler-time-plagiarism","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.quartertothree.com\/fp\/2013\/12\/17\/motor-rock-throwback-simpler-time-plagiarism\/","title":{"rendered":"Motor Rock is a throwback to a simpler time of plagiarism"},"content":{"rendered":"

Motor Rock is $6.99 on Steam<\/a>. It’s an isometric racer in the same style as Blizzard’s old Rock ‘n’ Roll Racing. That’s not particularly newsworthy, but what does raise an eyebrow is the development team’s blatant repurposing of Blizzard’s game. (Note that until recently, the game was actually called Rock’n’Roll Racing 3D.) Here are some choice bits from their official FAQ<\/a>:<\/p>\n

Primarily we looked up to Rock’n’Roll Racing which was released on the Sega Mega Drive\/Genesis and the Super Nintendo game consoles and became a real hit. Rock’n’Roll Racing 3D is inspired by and developed in the traditions of the original game.<\/p>\n

Question: And with copyright will not have problems? How about Blizzard?
\nAnswer: We haven’t received a formal complaints. Playing a non-profit, and it’s based on the old brand. Much closer to the game, we will write to the Blizzard, just in case. I hope that we will not closed down.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Hey, they sent Blizzard a letter! I’m sure that’s good enough, right? If you want it, I’d advise you to get Motor Rock before Blizzard’s lawyers get wind of this game.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Motor Rock is $6.99 on Steam. It’s an isometric racer in the same style as Blizzard’s old Rock ‘n’ Roll Racing. That’s not particularly newsworthy, but what does raise an eyebrow is the development team’s blatant repurposing of Blizzard’s game. (Note that until recently, the game was actually called Rock’n’Roll Racing 3D.) Here are some […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1684,"featured_media":28547,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[27],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-28546","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news"],"yoast_head":"\nMotor Rock is a throwback to a simpler time of plagiarism - Quarter to Three<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/www.quartertothree.com\/fp\/2013\/12\/17\/motor-rock-throwback-simpler-time-plagiarism\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Motor Rock is a throwback to a simpler time of plagiarism - Quarter to Three\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"Motor Rock is $6.99 on Steam. It’s an isometric racer in the same style as Blizzard’s old Rock ‘n’ Roll Racing. That’s not particularly newsworthy, but what does raise an eyebrow is the development team’s blatant repurposing of Blizzard’s game. (Note that until recently, the game was actually called Rock’n’Roll Racing 3D.) Here are some […]\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:url\" content=\"https:\/\/www.quartertothree.com\/fp\/2013\/12\/17\/motor-rock-throwback-simpler-time-plagiarism\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:site_name\" content=\"Quarter to Three\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:published_time\" content=\"2013-12-17T21:00:34+00:00\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:modified_time\" content=\"2013-12-17T22:11:34+00:00\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:image\" content=\"https:\/\/www.quartertothree.com\/fp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/12\/rocknrolling.jpg\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:width\" content=\"700\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:height\" content=\"428\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:type\" content=\"image\/jpeg\" \/>\n<meta name=\"author\" content=\"Nick Diamon\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:label1\" content=\"Written by\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:data1\" content=\"Nick Diamon\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:label2\" content=\"Est. reading time\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:data2\" content=\"1 minute\" \/>\n<script type=\"application\/ld+json\" class=\"yoast-schema-graph\">{\"@context\":\"https:\\\/\\\/schema.org\",\"@graph\":[{\"@type\":\"Article\",\"@id\":\"https:\\\/\\\/www.quartertothree.com\\\/fp\\\/2013\\\/12\\\/17\\\/motor-rock-throwback-simpler-time-plagiarism\\\/#article\",\"isPartOf\":{\"@id\":\"https:\\\/\\\/www.quartertothree.com\\\/fp\\\/2013\\\/12\\\/17\\\/motor-rock-throwback-simpler-time-plagiarism\\\/\"},\"author\":{\"name\":\"Nick Diamon\",\"@id\":\"https:\\\/\\\/www.quartertothree.com\\\/fp\\\/#\\\/schema\\\/person\\\/12f74bb66e4067a53ee9fc77e02c27d7\"},\"headline\":\"Motor Rock is a throwback to a simpler time of plagiarism\",\"datePublished\":\"2013-12-17T21:00:34+00:00\",\"dateModified\":\"2013-12-17T22:11:34+00:00\",\"mainEntityOfPage\":{\"@id\":\"https:\\\/\\\/www.quartertothree.com\\\/fp\\\/2013\\\/12\\\/17\\\/motor-rock-throwback-simpler-time-plagiarism\\\/\"},\"wordCount\":211,\"commentCount\":6,\"image\":{\"@id\":\"https:\\\/\\\/www.quartertothree.com\\\/fp\\\/2013\\\/12\\\/17\\\/motor-rock-throwback-simpler-time-plagiarism\\\/#primaryimage\"},\"thumbnailUrl\":\"https:\\\/\\\/www.quartertothree.com\\\/fp\\\/wp-content\\\/uploads\\\/2013\\\/12\\\/rocknrolling.jpg\",\"articleSection\":[\"News\"],\"inLanguage\":\"en-US\",\"potentialAction\":[{\"@type\":\"CommentAction\",\"name\":\"Comment\",\"target\":[\"https:\\\/\\\/www.quartertothree.com\\\/fp\\\/2013\\\/12\\\/17\\\/motor-rock-throwback-simpler-time-plagiarism\\\/#respond\"]}]},{\"@type\":\"WebPage\",\"@id\":\"https:\\\/\\\/www.quartertothree.com\\\/fp\\\/2013\\\/12\\\/17\\\/motor-rock-throwback-simpler-time-plagiarism\\\/\",\"url\":\"https:\\\/\\\/www.quartertothree.com\\\/fp\\\/2013\\\/12\\\/17\\\/motor-rock-throwback-simpler-time-plagiarism\\\/\",\"name\":\"Motor Rock is a throwback to a simpler time of plagiarism - Quarter to Three\",\"isPartOf\":{\"@id\":\"https:\\\/\\\/www.quartertothree.com\\\/fp\\\/#website\"},\"primaryImageOfPage\":{\"@id\":\"https:\\\/\\\/www.quartertothree.com\\\/fp\\\/2013\\\/12\\\/17\\\/motor-rock-throwback-simpler-time-plagiarism\\\/#primaryimage\"},\"image\":{\"@id\":\"https:\\\/\\\/www.quartertothree.com\\\/fp\\\/2013\\\/12\\\/17\\\/motor-rock-throwback-simpler-time-plagiarism\\\/#primaryimage\"},\"thumbnailUrl\":\"https:\\\/\\\/www.quartertothree.com\\\/fp\\\/wp-content\\\/uploads\\\/2013\\\/12\\\/rocknrolling.jpg\",\"datePublished\":\"2013-12-17T21:00:34+00:00\",\"dateModified\":\"2013-12-17T22:11:34+00:00\",\"author\":{\"@id\":\"https:\\\/\\\/www.quartertothree.com\\\/fp\\\/#\\\/schema\\\/person\\\/12f74bb66e4067a53ee9fc77e02c27d7\"},\"breadcrumb\":{\"@id\":\"https:\\\/\\\/www.quartertothree.com\\\/fp\\\/2013\\\/12\\\/17\\\/motor-rock-throwback-simpler-time-plagiarism\\\/#breadcrumb\"},\"inLanguage\":\"en-US\",\"potentialAction\":[{\"@type\":\"ReadAction\",\"target\":[\"https:\\\/\\\/www.quartertothree.com\\\/fp\\\/2013\\\/12\\\/17\\\/motor-rock-throwback-simpler-time-plagiarism\\\/\"]}]},{\"@type\":\"ImageObject\",\"inLanguage\":\"en-US\",\"@id\":\"https:\\\/\\\/www.quartertothree.com\\\/fp\\\/2013\\\/12\\\/17\\\/motor-rock-throwback-simpler-time-plagiarism\\\/#primaryimage\",\"url\":\"https:\\\/\\\/www.quartertothree.com\\\/fp\\\/wp-content\\\/uploads\\\/2013\\\/12\\\/rocknrolling.jpg\",\"contentUrl\":\"https:\\\/\\\/www.quartertothree.com\\\/fp\\\/wp-content\\\/uploads\\\/2013\\\/12\\\/rocknrolling.jpg\",\"width\":700,\"height\":428},{\"@type\":\"BreadcrumbList\",\"@id\":\"https:\\\/\\\/www.quartertothree.com\\\/fp\\\/2013\\\/12\\\/17\\\/motor-rock-throwback-simpler-time-plagiarism\\\/#breadcrumb\",\"itemListElement\":[{\"@type\":\"ListItem\",\"position\":1,\"name\":\"Home\",\"item\":\"https:\\\/\\\/www.quartertothree.com\\\/fp\\\/\"},{\"@type\":\"ListItem\",\"position\":2,\"name\":\"Motor Rock is a throwback to a simpler time of plagiarism\"}]},{\"@type\":\"WebSite\",\"@id\":\"https:\\\/\\\/www.quartertothree.com\\\/fp\\\/#website\",\"url\":\"https:\\\/\\\/www.quartertothree.com\\\/fp\\\/\",\"name\":\"Quarter to Three\",\"description\":\"All games, all the time. Except for the bits about movies.\",\"potentialAction\":[{\"@type\":\"SearchAction\",\"target\":{\"@type\":\"EntryPoint\",\"urlTemplate\":\"https:\\\/\\\/www.quartertothree.com\\\/fp\\\/?s={search_term_string}\"},\"query-input\":{\"@type\":\"PropertyValueSpecification\",\"valueRequired\":true,\"valueName\":\"search_term_string\"}}],\"inLanguage\":\"en-US\"},{\"@type\":\"Person\",\"@id\":\"https:\\\/\\\/www.quartertothree.com\\\/fp\\\/#\\\/schema\\\/person\\\/12f74bb66e4067a53ee9fc77e02c27d7\",\"name\":\"Nick Diamon\",\"sameAs\":[\"http:\\\/\\\/admin\"],\"url\":\"https:\\\/\\\/www.quartertothree.com\\\/fp\\\/author\\\/nick-diamon\\\/\"}]}<\/script>\n<!-- \/ Yoast SEO plugin. -->","yoast_head_json":{"title":"Motor Rock is a throwback to a simpler time of plagiarism - Quarter to Three","robots":{"index":"index","follow":"follow","max-snippet":"max-snippet:-1","max-image-preview":"max-image-preview:large","max-video-preview":"max-video-preview:-1"},"canonical":"https:\/\/www.quartertothree.com\/fp\/2013\/12\/17\/motor-rock-throwback-simpler-time-plagiarism\/","og_locale":"en_US","og_type":"article","og_title":"Motor Rock is a throwback to a simpler time of plagiarism - Quarter to Three","og_description":"Motor Rock is $6.99 on Steam. It’s an isometric racer in the same style as Blizzard’s old Rock ‘n’ Roll Racing. That’s not particularly newsworthy, but what does raise an eyebrow is the development team’s blatant repurposing of Blizzard’s game. (Note that until recently, the game was actually called Rock’n’Roll Racing 3D.) Here are some […]","og_url":"https:\/\/www.quartertothree.com\/fp\/2013\/12\/17\/motor-rock-throwback-simpler-time-plagiarism\/","og_site_name":"Quarter to Three","article_published_time":"2013-12-17T21:00:34+00:00","article_modified_time":"2013-12-17T22:11:34+00:00","og_image":[{"width":700,"height":428,"url":"https:\/\/www.quartertothree.com\/fp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/12\/rocknrolling.jpg","type":"image\/jpeg"}],"author":"Nick Diamon","twitter_misc":{"Written by":"Nick Diamon","Est. reading time":"1 minute"},"schema":{"@context":"https:\/\/schema.org","@graph":[{"@type":"Article","@id":"https:\/\/www.quartertothree.com\/fp\/2013\/12\/17\/motor-rock-throwback-simpler-time-plagiarism\/#article","isPartOf":{"@id":"https:\/\/www.quartertothree.com\/fp\/2013\/12\/17\/motor-rock-throwback-simpler-time-plagiarism\/"},"author":{"name":"Nick Diamon","@id":"https:\/\/www.quartertothree.com\/fp\/#\/schema\/person\/12f74bb66e4067a53ee9fc77e02c27d7"},"headline":"Motor Rock is a throwback to a simpler time of plagiarism","datePublished":"2013-12-17T21:00:34+00:00","dateModified":"2013-12-17T22:11:34+00:00","mainEntityOfPage":{"@id":"https:\/\/www.quartertothree.com\/fp\/2013\/12\/17\/motor-rock-throwback-simpler-time-plagiarism\/"},"wordCount":211,"commentCount":6,"image":{"@id":"https:\/\/www.quartertothree.com\/fp\/2013\/12\/17\/motor-rock-throwback-simpler-time-plagiarism\/#primaryimage"},"thumbnailUrl":"https:\/\/www.quartertothree.com\/fp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/12\/rocknrolling.jpg","articleSection":["News"],"inLanguage":"en-US","potentialAction":[{"@type":"CommentAction","name":"Comment","target":["https:\/\/www.quartertothree.com\/fp\/2013\/12\/17\/motor-rock-throwback-simpler-time-plagiarism\/#respond"]}]},{"@type":"WebPage","@id":"https:\/\/www.quartertothree.com\/fp\/2013\/12\/17\/motor-rock-throwback-simpler-time-plagiarism\/","url":"https:\/\/www.quartertothree.com\/fp\/2013\/12\/17\/motor-rock-throwback-simpler-time-plagiarism\/","name":"Motor Rock is a throwback to a simpler time of plagiarism - Quarter to Three","isPartOf":{"@id":"https:\/\/www.quartertothree.com\/fp\/#website"},"primaryImageOfPage":{"@id":"https:\/\/www.quartertothree.com\/fp\/2013\/12\/17\/motor-rock-throwback-simpler-time-plagiarism\/#primaryimage"},"image":{"@id":"https:\/\/www.quartertothree.com\/fp\/2013\/12\/17\/motor-rock-throwback-simpler-time-plagiarism\/#primaryimage"},"thumbnailUrl":"https:\/\/www.quartertothree.com\/fp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/12\/rocknrolling.jpg","datePublished":"2013-12-17T21:00:34+00:00","dateModified":"2013-12-17T22:11:34+00:00","author":{"@id":"https:\/\/www.quartertothree.com\/fp\/#\/schema\/person\/12f74bb66e4067a53ee9fc77e02c27d7"},"breadcrumb":{"@id":"https:\/\/www.quartertothree.com\/fp\/2013\/12\/17\/motor-rock-throwback-simpler-time-plagiarism\/#breadcrumb"},"inLanguage":"en-US","potentialAction":[{"@type":"ReadAction","target":["https:\/\/www.quartertothree.com\/fp\/2013\/12\/17\/motor-rock-throwback-simpler-time-plagiarism\/"]}]},{"@type":"ImageObject","inLanguage":"en-US","@id":"https:\/\/www.quartertothree.com\/fp\/2013\/12\/17\/motor-rock-throwback-simpler-time-plagiarism\/#primaryimage","url":"https:\/\/www.quartertothree.com\/fp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/12\/rocknrolling.jpg","contentUrl":"https:\/\/www.quartertothree.com\/fp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/12\/rocknrolling.jpg","width":700,"height":428},{"@type":"BreadcrumbList","@id":"https:\/\/www.quartertothree.com\/fp\/2013\/12\/17\/motor-rock-throwback-simpler-time-plagiarism\/#breadcrumb","itemListElement":[{"@type":"ListItem","position":1,"name":"Home","item":"https:\/\/www.quartertothree.com\/fp\/"},{"@type":"ListItem","position":2,"name":"Motor Rock is a throwback to a simpler time of plagiarism"}]},{"@type":"WebSite","@id":"https:\/\/www.quartertothree.com\/fp\/#website","url":"https:\/\/www.quartertothree.com\/fp\/","name":"Quarter to Three","description":"All games, all the time. Except for the bits about movies.","potentialAction":[{"@type":"SearchAction","target":{"@type":"EntryPoint","urlTemplate":"https:\/\/www.quartertothree.com\/fp\/?s={search_term_string}"},"query-input":{"@type":"PropertyValueSpecification","valueRequired":true,"valueName":"search_term_string"}}],"inLanguage":"en-US"},{"@type":"Person","@id":"https:\/\/www.quartertothree.com\/fp\/#\/schema\/person\/12f74bb66e4067a53ee9fc77e02c27d7","name":"Nick Diamon","sameAs":["http:\/\/admin"],"url":"https:\/\/www.quartertothree.com\/fp\/author\/nick-diamon\/"}]}},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.quartertothree.com\/fp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28546","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.quartertothree.com\/fp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.quartertothree.com\/fp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.quartertothree.com\/fp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1684"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.quartertothree.com\/fp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=28546"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.quartertothree.com\/fp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28546\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":28567,"href":"https:\/\/www.quartertothree.com\/fp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28546\/revisions\/28567"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.quartertothree.com\/fp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/28547"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.quartertothree.com\/fp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=28546"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.quartertothree.com\/fp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=28546"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.quartertothree.com\/fp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=28546"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}