The creator of the Cyberpunk 2077 VR mod CD Projekt recently hit with a DMCA strike has paused his Patreon page and pulled access to all his mods after receiving another strike from a different publisher.
Looks like the Ghostrunner developers also have an issue with paid mods running off their IP.
Granted, DRMs and the DMCA complicate things legally. Not morally though. Retro games don’t have licences though, and courts have ruled that the copy protection systems on those consoles are generally insufficient to count for legal purposes. do you oppose paid romhacks too?
Why should retro games have no licenses?
And I personally don’t oppose anything, just pointing to the laws and how I understand it.
Am I a lawyer? No!
Is my knowledge of such laws primarly only valid for germany and the EU? Yes
There could be a legal basis against romhacks, and even a bigger one if they are paid, but it could may be legal too. That is one of those cases where a court ruling would be helpfull to be sure.
Granted, DRMs and the DMCA complicate things legally. Not morally though. Retro games don’t have licences though, and courts have ruled that the copy protection systems on those consoles are generally insufficient to count for legal purposes. do you oppose paid romhacks too?
Why should retro games have no licenses? And I personally don’t oppose anything, just pointing to the laws and how I understand it. Am I a lawyer? No! Is my knowledge of such laws primarly only valid for germany and the EU? Yes
There could be a legal basis against romhacks, and even a bigger one if they are paid, but it could may be legal too. That is one of those cases where a court ruling would be helpfull to be sure.
I mean to say, there’s no T&C with retro games.
There can be, but most of the time yes.
And it depends on the definition of retro games. Retro games can include up to WiiU and Xbox360 era, there is a lot of T&C there.
But for the good old 8/16bit era, yes it is mostly unkown there.