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Chazore on 20 February 2021
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Captain_Yuri said:
Zkuq said:

I'm not sure that's a valid DMCA takedown, but I also really doubt anyone's got the resources and will to do anything about this. I kind of think it isn't valid, but reverse engineering is a bit of a problematic area in this regard. This is evident even from the license of the reverse engineered code: there was none because the people that reverse engineered the games said themselves that they don't feel like they're in a position to offer any kind of a license.

I'm not quite sure what Apple was thinking with that. My best guess is that they wanted to drag Valve into this because Valve is kind of in a similar position. Maybe Apple though Valve would side with them, either willfully or if dragged into this forcefully.

It's one thing to ask Valve to side with them but what Apple is asking Valve is to give them all their insider info which is nuts!

Exactly.

No company on earth would do this, no company on earth would even want to do this, because you're effectively giving away any edge you have, any ideas and what works away, to your competitor.

Imagine if one day, Apple decided to give or sell all that info to the likes of Google or hell, Epic, it'd be a shitshow of legal troubles and more court cases.

Apple is likely asking for assistance, since Google is busy trying to hang and shoot itself, so they clearly aren't going to side with Apple.

Valve should just deny and ignore this tbh, because it's strictly Apple vs Epic.



Mankind, in its arrogance and self-delusion, must believe they are the mirrors to God in both their image and their power. If something shatters that mirror, then it must be totally destroyed.