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Re:Guy Finds StarCraft Source Code and Returns It to Blizzard by Dylan16807 on Thursday May 04, 2017 @03:26AM (#14263167)
The "out of China" part is the problem there. That's a problem that's pretty much irrelevant to a question of whether or not to distribute copies of data files.

And I didn't say that cultural importance is an automatic justification. The new star wars movie also has cultural importance, but there would be large downsides to free-for-all piracy of it during its release year. Downsides that don't exist with 20 year old source code.

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Re:Guy Finds StarCraft Source Code and Returns It to Blizzard by yomly on Thursday May 04, 2017 @04:06AM (#14263314)
This is more like if an annotated original script of A New Hope were to find its way into the hands of a fan and s/he gave it back to Disney instead of copying it.
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Re:Guy Finds StarCraft Source Code and Returns It to Blizzard by eridius on Thursday May 04, 2017 @03:24PM (#14267885)
You don't have the right to determine whether someone else's source code is old enough that it's "ok" to steal. Not the legal right, and not the moral right either.
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Re:Guy Finds StarCraft Source Code and Returns It to Blizzard by Dylan16807 on Thursday May 04, 2017 @03:34PM (#14267968)
Obviously I don't have magic law-changing wishes from a lamp. Are you telling me I don't get to have an opinion wrt lawmaking? Because that would be kind of rude and antithetical to a democratic government.
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