MazonnaCara89@lemmy.ml to Piracy: ꜱᴀɪʟ ᴛʜᴇ ʜɪɢʜ ꜱᴇᴀꜱ@lemmy.dbzer0.comEnglish · edit-211 months agoUbisoft has quietly pulled Assassin's Creed IV: Black Flag from Steamwww.xfire.comexternal-linkmessage-square34fedilinkarrow-up1218arrow-down14
arrow-up1214arrow-down1external-linkUbisoft has quietly pulled Assassin's Creed IV: Black Flag from Steamwww.xfire.comMazonnaCara89@lemmy.ml to Piracy: ꜱᴀɪʟ ᴛʜᴇ ʜɪɢʜ ꜱᴇᴀꜱ@lemmy.dbzer0.comEnglish · edit-211 months agomessage-square34fedilink
minus-squareours@lemmy.filmlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up23·11 months agoIs it piracy? He owns a license for the game. Are Ubisoft or Rockstart Games pirates for using scene cracks themselves?
minus-square520@kbin.sociallinkfedilinkarrow-up7·edit-211 months ago Is it piracy? He owns a license for the game. Technically it’s not. They don’t even need a new copy of the game, just the cracked .exe file. Are Ubisoft or Rockstart Games pirates for using scene cracks themselves? Arguably so, as they did not get the scene group’s permission to redistribute their works.
Is it piracy? He owns a license for the game.
Are Ubisoft or Rockstart Games pirates for using scene cracks themselves?
Technically it’s not.
They don’t even need a new copy of the game, just the cracked .exe file.
Arguably so, as they did not get the scene group’s permission to redistribute their works.