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Rockstar is selling cracked game copies on steam. (lemmy.world)
submitted 11 months ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]
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[–] [email protected] 22 points 11 months ago (2 children)

Is grabbed a euphemism for stole?

[–] [email protected] 27 points 11 months ago (2 children)

Id say it's more nuanced. The game is theirs? Some might say they stole their work... But the game is theirs and they never contracted or even gave permission for the work to be completed? I'd say it's unethical still since they have the resources to accomplish this on their own.

[–] [email protected] 14 points 11 months ago (1 children)

unethical

Lol we're lucky there isn't a keylogger trojaned in there. That's the next step for crackers. Get something in there that will activate when it recognizes it was repackaged on steam.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 11 months ago

Bitcoin miner, do it on a graphics-heavy game so you know the computers it infects are likely to have beefy GPUs

[–] [email protected] 5 points 11 months ago

It's literally stealing. If anyone steals any part of their software, usable or not, they'll sue them. This makes them hypocrites.

[–] [email protected] 9 points 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago) (2 children)

“Stolen” isn’t the right language to use for something that’s been intentionally made available free to anyone who wants it.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 11 months ago

It's not the right language for copyright infringement either, but it still gets used.

[–] [email protected] -1 points 11 months ago (1 children)

Yes it is. Just because you're distributing your software for free, it doesn't mean you're implicitly giving others permission to

[–] [email protected] 1 points 11 months ago

They’re not distributing the crack though. They’re distributing the game with the crack applied.

Domi think that should matter? Yes, of course. Does the law? That’s actually kind of a gray area.