Guy Finds StarCraft Source Code and Returns It to Blizzard

Re:Guy Finds StarCraft Source Code and Returns It to Blizzard by jhasse on Thursday May 04, 2017 @10:40AM (#14265147)

If I steal your house, that means that you lost it. The same isn't true for the code, as Blizzard would still also have it (along with the right to distribute binary copies of it, which is a million times more valuable).

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Re:Guy Finds StarCraft Source Code and Returns It to Blizzard by jhasse on Thursday May 04, 2017 @12:52PM (#14266440)

What would be the damages for Blizzard if he had released the code?

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Re:Guy Finds StarCraft Source Code and Returns It to Blizzard by tripzilch on Friday May 05, 2017 @12:15PM (#14274551)

are you conflating ethics and law again, or do you honestly believe that a corporation, a legal construct, has moral rights like a human??

because I can make up constructs all day that suffered more damages either way.

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Re:Guy Finds StarCraft Source Code and Returns It to Blizzard by jhasse on Friday May 05, 2017 @12:22PM (#14274608)

> are you conflating ethics and law again, or do you honestly believe that a corporation, a legal construct, has moral rights like a human??

No.

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Re:Guy Finds StarCraft Source Code and Returns It to Blizzard by braveo on Thursday May 04, 2017 @11:36AM (#14265615)

this distinction does not matter, if you steal my code and release it I can sue for damages exactly the way I would if you were to somehow steal my house.

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