Comment on The full source code for GTA 5 has been publicly leaked

• LanternEverywhere@kbin.social ⁨6⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  Depends on which country you're in. I would bet if you do it in Russia there will be zero consequences.

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  • doingthestuff@lemmy.world ⁨6⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    The consequence of living in Russia is you will die in occupied Ukraine.

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• Korne127@lemmy.world ⁨6⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  when you or your employer has to pay your side of legal fees

  Where I live, the losing side must pay for all legal fees

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  • sukhmel@programming.dev ⁨6⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    That is if you will have enough to keep going until you win. Having to pay a hundred grands for years may be a price to just prove you’re innocent, after that you’ll be refunded (sometime)

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• joemo@lemmy.sdf.org ⁨6⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  There’s no way this is true. I can literally think of similar code as what’s in GTA V, I have never opened the link. Does that open me up to a law suit? That’s crazy.

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  • SzethFriendOfNimi@lemmy.world ⁨6⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    Directly, probably not. But if you work on an engine team or on a game and there’s some future lawsuit implying that the methods and techniques match their stuff then it will be costly. Companies would rather just avoid the potential liability.

    Here’s an article discussing some aspects of Nintendo leaks being risky for those who work on emulators

    vice.com/…/using-leaked-nintendo-source-code-pose…

    "Such dumps wouldn’t be of use to the project due to it being illegal to obtain and use code contained within said dumps,” they said via Twitter DM. “Using code from dumps like that can taint the project and be active grounds for Nintendo to pursue legal action against it.”

    “Having a 16 plus year old emulator project go up in smoke isn’t something I’d want to happen. I’ve already seen a few comments on Reddit saying something along the lines of, ‘Well, why don’t you just make use of it but change it up a little before using it’, which, uhh, is a profound lack of perspective,” Lioncache said. “Legally, you generally don’t get a second chance about these sorts of things if legal action actually gets taken.”

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• Console_Modder@sh.itjust.works ⁨6⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  Ok, that’s what I thought you meant by the original comment but I wanted to make sure.

  Thanks

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• Nilz@sopuli.xyz ⁨6⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  Also to add to this, you are disqualified from contributing code to the WINE project if you’ve seen parts of the Windows source code for this exact same reason.

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  • reddithalation@sopuli.xyz ⁨6⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    oh interesting. kinda impossible to ensure all the contributors have never seen it though.

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