Comment by chrisdotcode
10 years ago
What if the developers... forget to password-protect the server that hosts the source code, installers, etc. Can the law touch cases of... negligence like this?
10 years ago
What if the developers... forget to password-protect the server that hosts the source code, installers, etc. Can the law touch cases of... negligence like this?
The source code is on github. Has been, for years.
https://github.com/osgcc/no-one-lives-forever
Yes. Copyright still exists regardless of how the content is obtained.
I can hand you a disk full of my source code, but unless I give you permission to reproduce it it'd still be illegal to reproduce.
Otherwise all the property rights of anyone can be nullified just by one person with access to it, clearly that's impossible in our legal framework.
Yes. Copyright infringement is copyright infringement. The penalties for willful infringement are higher, but for unwitting infringement they are not zero, and IIRC for infringement for profit there's a high statutory minimum fine.
If you don't mind breaking the law, it's probably a bit more efficient to just torrent it.
Currently very few people are seeding or leeching NOLF, which is a bit surprising with this article.
https://kat.cr/usearch/no%20one%20lives%20forever/
Pirate Bay has 21 seeders but yeah, there's not exactly an abundance of peers there. Really glad I picked up a bargain bin copy about 10 years ago
In this case, they already have the source code; someone along the way just gave it to them.
No, but they can always be ...fired.