Valve already gave Half-Life 2 away for free, and released the source code of the HL1 engine.

Is it technically illegal? Yeah, but Valve isn't losing out on any money, and there's no way they're going to risk the negative PR blowback they'd get for a takedown.

Besides, IP law is dead. The rise of AI made it pretty clear that you can steal literally anything without consequences.

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Cthulhu_ 25 minutes ago | parent | next [-]

Giving things away for free (at one point) is not the same as making it public domain or relinquishing your (copy)rights. Source available is not the same as open source. Open source code does not mean open source assets/product. I find it weird that this needs to be explained in this community.

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dminik 2 hours ago | parent | prev | next [-]

GoldSrc (HL1 engine) is very much not open source (or even source available). There's at least one open source remake (which is possibly illegal due to using the SDK) but no official release.

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nba456_ an hour ago | parent | prev | next [-]

>Besides, IP law is dead. The rise of AI made it pretty clear that you can steal literally anything without consequences.

God, AI keeps making life better than I could've ever imagined!

	▲	zombot 21 minutes ago \| parent [-]
		It only works like that for the Big Thieves. Us regular folks get screwed over just like before.

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flordaman an hour ago | parent | prev | next [-]

No no, you can't steal anything without consequences, only big corperations who are making slop machines(tm) can.

	▲	account42 26 minutes ago \| parent [-]
		Turns out "too big to fail" doesn't just apply to reckless financial behavior.

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foldr 31 minutes ago | parent | prev [-]

HL2 is not free: https://store.steampowered.com/app/220/HalfLife_2/