• elgordofordo86@lemmy.world
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    1 year ago

    Id say it’s more nuanced. The game is theirs? Some might say they stole their work… But the game is theirs and they never contracted or even gave permission for the work to be completed? I’d say it’s unethical still since they have the resources to accomplish this on their own.

    • half_built_pyramids@lemmy.world
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      1 year ago

      unethical

      Lol we’re lucky there isn’t a keylogger trojaned in there. That’s the next step for crackers. Get something in there that will activate when it recognizes it was repackaged on steam.

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        1 year ago

        Bitcoin miner, do it on a graphics-heavy game so you know the computers it infects are likely to have beefy GPUs

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      It’s literally stealing. If anyone steals any part of their software, usable or not, they’ll sue them. This makes them hypocrites.