• AlexWIWAEnglish
    574·
    10 months ago10 months ago

    Yes they do. And they’d need to look at your source code to prove you copied theirs. It’d be basically impossible to prove unless you were stupid enough to have the GTA V source code on your work machine.

    Peep the code on a website, and they’ll have no evidence and the case will get dismissed for being frivolous. Do you think Rockstar is omniscient? People look at the source code, then leave the company for a competitor every week.

    Code can’t even be patented, so unless you copy some propriety process for computing physics or something, that they have a patent on, then they really have no legal standing.

    This meme of “don’t look at it” is very ignorant to the reality of professional software development. Our memories aren’t wiped when we switch jobs and they’d have to prove you didn’t pick that idea up from another job, a forum, a colleague, or even a dream.

    • ayayaEnglish
      260·
      10 months ago10 months ago

      Do you think Rockstar is omniscient?

      Seriously. There is actually zero way Rockstar would ever know even if you outright stole some of the code unless you were to admit it. And definitely not if you got some inspiration from it.

      The derivative code will get compiled. What are they going to do, pick apart the machine code from every game released from now on to see if it somehow matches a chunk from GTA? And then somehow track down and prove that one of the probably dozens of employees who worked on the game looked at this leaked source code? Good luck with that.

      • AlexWIWAEnglish
        80·
        10 months ago10 months ago

        Yeah there’s no chance anyone would even know unless you straight up copied enough code that the same bugs and weird physics behaviors show up in your game.

        You can get in trouble for having it on your hard drive because it’s copyright infringement, but not for looking at it on a website.

      • AnsisEnglish
        40·
        10 months ago

        Not sure about Rockstar, but this seems like something Nintendo would do lol.

        • AlexWIWAEnglish
          10·
          10 months ago

          Nintendo would replicate that FTC Family Guy episode if they could.

    • ladEnglish
      41·
      10 months ago

      Our memories aren’t wiped when we switch jobs

      Now that’s the real problem here /s

      Also, this already been a trope in a movie

        • ladEnglish
          10·
          10 months ago10 months ago

          For wiping memory of ex-workers? Or for illegal non competitive contract items? You lost me somewhat

          Ah, nevermind, I got your point. Yes it happens and it doesn’t always happen fairly