“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.”
It might as well be his doom (pun intended). Can’t Activision file a lawsuit against him for uploading that on Github?
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Activision and Github are both part of the same company too. Maybe a different Git would have been better.
No? GitHub is owned by Microsoft
Edit: I’m wrong. Apparently Microsoft owns Activision blizzard?!
Oh no…
It’s 2026. Everything is owned by like 4 companies
Sorry you had to learn this way.
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).
Wait! Does that mean King doesn’t have croquis Wednesday’s anymore?
Yeah :(
I like Codeberg, but I don’t think they would allow a project of this size, especially given the liability.
Idea: we use torrents and go back to emailing eachother .patch files.
And still use git, tho? Cuz that’s kind of the whole point of these sites.
Could use git, sure. Would make it easier to merge longer tailed sets of changes for sure, though maybe harder to pass around anonymously, assuming you’re taking about repositories.
Well, now he must be quaking in his boots!
He heard the call and did his duty
But was he prepared to be under their overwatch?
He should get a medal for his honor.
That medal comes from a dishonored company, so it wouldn’t count
What a world…of warcraft.
Makes you want to escape to the outer worlds.
To sail there on the sea of thieves.
Red Dead Redemption 2
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.
Nah that’s not how that works. He might have obtained it legally and accidentally. But he made the decision to then distribute it. He can most definitely get sued for that. If you want to distribute basically anything, you need the right permissions / license for that.
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.
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.
Okay well would he at least be in less trouble than if he’d made any money off it?