Awwww, my friends and I would lose our fun of spit roasting the Big Black Destroyer types in front of 80 people and watch as he panics and fumbles for a way out of that humiliating pose when he colds us
My view has always been that the copyright issue is slightly overblown. But if it is the reason behind not implementing certain features, maybe the way forward is to create some kind of legal framework where the player assumes legal responsibility for design content and the platform/game itself is absolved.