Emulation and modding are about to be revolutionized

[HoloDust]

sc94597 said:

HoloDust said:

As someone who would love to see more decompile/recompile ARM ports akin to OpenCE, can't wait.

As someone who predicts lot of "devs" with questionable morality decompiling games, stealing code and then releasing such games, which will, among other things, probably trigger draconian measures from AAA publishers in how they deliver games in the future...yeah, not so happy.

Again, I am against IP. I think "stealing code" makes as much sense as stealing a theorem or the concept of "tree." Legally, of course one can distinguish it, but morality-wise it seems far more onerous to have "ownership" of ideas and all of the violent enforcement and inequality that that entails

I am not sure what AAA publishers can do about this other than not release executables by going full streaming, which is really just cutting off one's nose to spite one's face. What they earn by hampering pirates they lose many times over by having inaccessible distribution of their games. 

Yeah, that's where we'll disagree - climbing houses in Assassin's Creed is a concept, which shouldn't be under copyright laws protection (like idea of the tree), but using someone's code that someone wrote (and its not open sourced) from decompile and using it exactly in your own game is theft from my POV.