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Rockstar is selling cracked game copies on steam.
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this post was submitted on 05 Sep 2023
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Rockstar grabbed the crack made by Razor 1911 and put it on the Steam version of Midnight Club 2 instead of taking out the DRM themselves.
Is grabbed a euphemism for stole?
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.
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.
Bitcoin miner, do it on a graphics-heavy game so you know the computers it infects are likely to have beefy GPUs
It's literally stealing. If anyone steals any part of their software, usable or not, they'll sue them. This makes them hypocrites.
“Stolen” isn’t the right language to use for something that’s been intentionally made available free to anyone who wants it.
It's not the right language for copyright infringement either, but it still gets used.
Yes it is. Just because you're distributing your software for free, it doesn't mean you're implicitly giving others permission to
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.