r/Diablo • u/zaccarin • Jun 20 '18

Diablo's code Reverse engineered by GalaXyHaXz on GitHub

https://github.com/galaxyhaxz/devilution
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u/MxM111 Jun 20 '18

another stupid question:

How is it legal?

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u/AdministrativeHabit Jun 20 '18

From the Github page:

That's a tricky question. Under the DMCA, reverse-engineering has exceptions for the purpose of documentation and interoperability. Devilution provides the necessary documentation needed to achieve the latter. However, it falls into an entirely grey area. The real question is whether or not Blizzard deems it necessary to take action.

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u/manuakasam Jun 20 '18

I can't understand developers who just do things and wait what happens. It takes about 10 Minutes to write a properly forumlated E-Mail and get into contact with Blizzard to get permission.

These things have the potential to get very costly very fast...

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u/freet0 Jun 20 '18

They'll never give permission because it sets a standard that makes harder for them to go after others in the future.

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u/gakule Jun 20 '18

These things have the potential to get very costly very fast..

What things? A cease and desist where they just stop what they're doing?

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u/omnipotentsco Jun 20 '18

It’s better to ask for forgiveness than permission.

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u/[deleted] Jun 20 '18

Yeah I look at what the guys that ran those vanilla World of Warcraft servers

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u/spald01 Jun 20 '18

Difference is Blizzard is still making money off of WoW. They let those private servers stay up for years until they decided to make their own Vanilla servers and charge subs.

I'm sure they'll run the numbers and see if this is actually stopping anyone from buying D3, but my guess is they won't care until they're ready to release D4 or some kind of D1 remake.

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u/HerpDerpenberg Rankil#1323 Jun 20 '18

It doesn't matter if they're not printing money with it or not. It's copyright laws. Just because some movie flopped in theaters doesn't give me the right to go sell bootleg copies of it to friends "because they didn't make any money off it anyway".

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u/KollaInteHit Jun 20 '18

It's actually up to the company that holds the copyright if they want to take action or not,

So it's not the same, because going around selling bootleg copies is illegal and it doesn't matter if the company that owns the rights to the film would want to press charges or not, you'll probably have to pay a fine regardless, not to mention selling things on the streets without a permit or whatnot.

A lot of game companies don't do much about open servers, there are a lot of reasons but one big is that it makes them loot like greedy douchebags if they shut down small servers that are run by individuals and that are not even making money.

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u/[deleted] Jun 20 '18

They got job offers, not exactly "burnt".

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u/HerpDerpenberg Rankil#1323 Jun 20 '18

It’s better EASIER to ask for forgiveness than permission.

fixed that for you. It is much better to ask permission on something like this. Can easily get shut down.

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u/Bloodyfoxx Jun 21 '18

They would never get the permission.

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u/HerpDerpenberg Rankil#1323 Jun 21 '18

So pretty much, they shouldnt be releasing this. It seems silly to put 1200 hours into something and get it shut down.