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Re:Someone dropped the source code for Far Cry 1 on archive.org by Vespasian on Saturday July 01, 2023 @10:28AM (#36550482)
That (maybe) would have worked in the olden days of physical disks or catridges. Today it is trivial to keep the game on steam with zero sales (or almost zero).

If lawmakers wanted to pass a law that actually made this happen they needed to stipulate a cut off date (and potential compensation) as well as rigid rules about what one can do with the released code.

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Re:Someone dropped the source code for Far Cry 1 on archive.org by account42 on Monday July 03, 2023 @10:40AM (#36573567)
> and potential compensation

Why would there be a need for compensation. Copyright is only granted in the first place so that more things will (eventually) enter the commons. Rolling back the perversion that is the current copyright terms doesn't need anything to balance it out since the current sitation is already so unbalanced in the other direction.

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