RE3(reversed source code for GTA3/VC) has received a DMCA takedown from Take-Two

https://github.com/github/dmca/blob/master/2021/02/2021-02-19-take-two.md

by zer0n • 5 years ago

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egeozcan2• 5 years ago

It's a shame. I doubt that they had any copyrighted work, it was just some reverse engineering.

zer0n• 5 years ago

They had some binary fonts and files with "game story"

ChrisLomont• 5 years ago

Reverse engineered code is still copyrighted by the owners. The proper legal way to get source is to take a clean room approach where one team reversed the code, writes a specification, and a second team rewrites the program from the spec without ever seeing the original code.

0_gravitas2• 5 years ago

I thought in order to copyright code, you need to disclose the source code as part of the registration process, no?

ptcampbell• 5 years ago

Wow. Do you have an example of this happening?

udbhavs• 5 years ago

Unrelated but this reminds me of temporal pincers from Tenet

mcjkrw• 5 years ago

How can that be proven? E.g. how can you prove legally that the team writing the code didn't see reverse engineered code?

Hamuko• 5 years ago

Their coding style guide includes this:

Don't just copy paste code from IDA, make it look nice

https://web.archive.org/web/20210214104959/https://github.co...

yrro• 5 years ago

Whoops. They should have taken a leaf out of Phoenix Technologies' book...

egeozcan2• 5 years ago

Well, I stand corrected.

0_gravitas2• 5 years ago

`<inflammatory-statement>The very concept of "Intellectual Property" is madness</inflammatory-statement>`

Anyone have a local copy of the repo they'd be willing to share?

bilegeek• 5 years ago

Go to the snapshot of the repo on Archive.org, download the ZIP.

dawidpotocki• 5 years ago

If you want a full git history, I made a mirror recently. It could lack a newest commit, cause it's only updated daily. https://git.dawidpotocki.com/mirror/re3

Psychotherapist2• 5 years ago

There is a repo with a few more recent commits here: https://git.rip/Obama/re3

lyptt• 5 years ago

I'm glad I set up a git mirror on my own home server. I've been looking forward to giving this a shot all week!

CodeArtisan2• 5 years ago

There have been rumors lately that Take-Two is going to announce a remake or remaster of both GTA3 and Vice City.

iknowstuff• 5 years ago

Do you mean published rumors or insider chatter?

tibbydudeza• 5 years ago

They made reddit and hacker news in the last 2 weeks. An inevitable outcome considering how much money Take 2 makes from the GTA franchise.

withmorten• 5 years ago

The readme actually links to the Steam store, so if anything, they'd make more money!

b55ac77db• 5 years ago

Made a torrent of the removed github repos I had downloaded (PC, Vita, Switch versions). Also includes Vita builds.

http://btcache.me/torrent/B55AC77DB29181235F17A0D78514409C3E...

magnet:?xt=urn:btih:b55ac77db29181235f17a0d78514409c3e127e90&tr=udp://tracker.openbittorrent.com:80&tr=udp://tracker.opentrackr.org:1337/announce

RE3(reversed source code for GTA3/VC) has received a DMCA takedown from Take-Two

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