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littlecranky67 4 hours ago

So nobody to come after you for copyright violation if you run a community-patched (a.k.a. cracked) version of the game?

mh- 4 hours ago | parent [-]

Well, no. Just like other purpose-built vehicles (like the ones for motion picture productions), they will transfer rights to other entities before shutting down.

Akronymus 3 hours ago | parent | next [-]

And then lose the rights to those franchises/codebases/etc? I don't think that'll realistically happen.

littlecranky67 3 hours ago | parent | prev [-]

How is something like that not considered when a law like that is passed?

agoodusername63 3 hours ago | parent [-]

Despite the good intentions of SKG, their efforts are being heavily shaped by the intense lobbying against them.

This law has a lot of weird omissions and obvious loopholes because industry lobbyists want it that way for their clients. It's a very clever law in the studio and publisher's favor. It changes pretty much nothing. The worst GaaS plagues on the industry will be able to keep trucking along as usual and the few service games remaining that have an upfront cost will slap on the tiniest singleplayer function to meet the law. Hell a model viewer might even meet it, or at the very least bait people into trying to waste time in court over it.

All while making nice headlines implying that SKG is making meaningful progress (they're not)