"I came across this at a very sad point in my life, it was on a hard drive on a vintage computer I bought off Amazon," Marshall explains on the expansion's GitHub page. "Literally this essentially saved my life, I was going through a divorce and just happen[ing] to come across something like this was insane."

you are viewing a single comment's thread
view the rest of the comments
[–] 59 points 3 months ago (24 children)

It might as well be his doom (pun intended). Can't Activision file a lawsuit against him for uploading that on Github?

  • source
  • hideshow 24 child comments
  • [–] 29 points 3 months ago (10 children)

    Activision and Github are both part of the same company too. Maybe a different Git would have been better.

  • source
  • parent
  • hideshow 10 child comments
  • [–] 41 points 3 months ago* (5 children)

    No? GitHub is owned by Microsoft

    Edit: I'm wrong. Apparently Microsoft owns Activision blizzard?!

    Oh no...

  • source
  • parent
  • hideshow 5 child comments
  • [–] 24 points 3 months ago (1 child)

    How on earth did you miss that? It was in the news for years, the biggest buyout with 69 BILLION dollars. It's actually Activision-Blizzard-King, King being the company responsible for mobile game hits like Candy Crush (that's why its in your start menu).

  • source
  • parent
  • hideshow 1 child comment
  • [–] 5 points 3 months ago (3 children)

    I like Codeberg, but I don't think they would allow a project of this size, especially given the liability.

  • source
  • parent
  • hideshow 3 child comments
  • [–] 5 points 3 months ago (2 children)

    Idea: we use torrents and go back to emailing eachother .patch files.

  • source
  • parent
  • hideshow 2 child comments
  • [–] 7 points 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago) (3 children)

    Seeing as he obtained it legally, albeit by accident, I think it would be whoever sold the hard disk that's at fault. Granted, IANAL and the American legal system is fucky.

    Edit: Yeah I'm not a lawyer.

  • source
  • parent
  • hideshow 3 child comments
  • [–] 9 points 3 months ago

    He doesn’t hold the copyright so has no right to distribute it. Like if you bought a manuscript from a book you don’t have the right to print copies of it and distribute it. Since you only are the owner of that specific manuscript not the copyright and distribution rights of the actual content.

  • source
  • parent
  • [–] 5 points 3 months ago (1 child)

    Just finding something by accident doesn't give you the right to publish it.

    If you found someone manuscript in the drawer of a desk you bought, you would not gain the right to publish it, it still belongs to the person that wrote it. Physical possession has nothing to do with the right to distribute, that is IP law that goes back a hundred years.

  • source
  • parent
  • hideshow 1 child comment
  • [–] 17 points 3 months ago (8 children)

    Well, now he must be quaking in his boots!

  • source
  • parent
  • hideshow 8 child comments
  • [–] 9 points 3 months ago (7 children)

    He heard the call and did his duty

  • source
  • parent
  • hideshow 7 child comments
  • [–] 2 points 3 months ago* (6 children)

    But was he prepared to be under their overwatch?

  • source
  • parent
  • hideshow 6 child comments
  • [–] 1 point 3 months ago (5 children)

    He should get a medal for his honor.

  • source
  • parent
  • hideshow 5 child comments
  • [–] 3 points 3 months ago (4 children)

    That medal comes from a dishonored company, so it wouldn't count

  • source
  • parent
  • hideshow 4 child comments
  • [–] 2 points 3 months ago (3 children)