Let’s hope they also do something meaningful about it.

A few million dollars in fines will not fix it. Making it a felony, convicting and punishing the people responsible (extraditing them if necessary), might.

To be clear, I think the original Pirates! actually was Sid Meier’s work. I’m not sure about this remake.

Running it wasn’t exactly straightforward. My CD-ROM copy was a no-go, but I managed to get the GOG version working in a 32-bit Wine prefix with DXVK. (I’m on linux.) Remaining problems are lack of wide-screen support (so I run it in a full-height window) and pauses between various scenes (which I might be able to solve with an older Wine version). It’s playable already, though; I’m glad I put in a little effort.

Other linux users wanting to try it might want to use Lutris, which seems to have install scripts for it, or a console emulator. Or maybe the Steam version works fine through Proton? I haven’t tried it.