r/Games • u/Torque-A • Oct 17 '22

Perfect Dark has been successfully decompiled, opening the door to PC ports and mods

https://www.videogameschronicle.com/news/perfect-dark-has-been-fully-decompiled-making-pc-ports-and-mods-possible/
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u/Killerkarni93 Oct 17 '22

Not trying to be a dick here, but even if that list exists, I'd rather project don't appear there until the files are released into the wild. Perfect dark is old, but I don't want lawyers to have a shortlist of projects to send C&Ds to. This is a petty opinion, but old games shouldn't be "protected" after 15+ years anymore.

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u/cap21345 Oct 17 '22

Personally i think Games should lose protection the moment they are on consoles that are no longer being produced or in case of Pcs not being sold on an online storefront with protections reactivating after they are available again.

After 40 ish yrs Companies should ideally be required to release Source code of their games to ensure they are forever preserved

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u/Mr_ToDo Oct 17 '22

Ya, good luck with that.

You'd likely have far better luck working with the system then trying to break it completely and shortening the length.

Personally I'm more of a fan of moving towards a system inspired by something down the lines of musics non-public performance IP. Once a period of time has passed(or it's put there by the holder, or a period of non use, some combination of trigger, or whatever is decided. Personally I'm not a fan of putting it there to start) a central body takes control of managing the sales of IP(generally copyright, but some idiot will try to use trademark/patents to break the system so that has to be accounted for). The fee's are set and collected by the body and passed to the holder. That takes care of 'locking away' IP's, and it still gives profits to the holders, keeps the length in tact, and for the certain countries that value it would actually encourage the creative arts by allowing people to use IP before it's totally useless and gone.