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
Comment on The full source code for GTA 5 has been publicly leaked
SzethFriendOfNimi@lemmy.world 10 months agoBecause even the possibility that you implemented somebody else’s proprietary code from memory or inspiration opens up a lot of legal issues.
And while you may win there’s no winners when you or your employer has to pay your side of legal fees. It’s best to just avoid it to make that process easier.
Korne127@lemmy.world 10 months ago
sukhmel@programming.dev 10 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)
joemo@lemmy.sdf.org 10 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.
SzethFriendOfNimi@lemmy.world 10 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.”
Console_Modder@sh.itjust.works 10 months ago
Ok, that’s what I thought you meant by the original comment but I wanted to make sure.
Thanks
Nilz@sopuli.xyz 10 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.
reddithalation@sopuli.xyz 10 months ago
oh interesting. kinda impossible to ensure all the contributors have never seen it though.
LanternEverywhere@kbin.social 10 months ago
Depends on which country you're in. I would bet if you do it in Russia there will be zero consequences.
doingthestuff@lemmy.world 10 months ago
The consequence of living in Russia is you will die in occupied Ukraine.