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It's actually pretty simple. If you find yourself in the same situation: 1. Rip disk 2. Send to archive.org 3. Mail disk to Blizzard. Blizzard will destroy th
by jpgvm 10y ago
It's actually pretty simple. If you find yourself in the same situation:
1. Rip disk
2. Send to archive.org
3. Mail disk to Blizzard.
Blizzard will destroy this copy or at least make sure it never circulates again, by sending it to archive.org you have relieved yourself of the burden of releasing it.
They may or may not choose to release it but they will at least keep it archived so that if Blizzard is to be lost then history will not be lost with it.
- scrollaway 10y agoI can't make you a legal guarantee of that, but Blizzard will not destroy the copy. It seems unlikely they'll release it any time soon given SC Remastered, but they're not idiots.
- jpgvm 10y agoRemoving from circulation permanently is basically the same as destruction for the purposes of archival.
- scrollaway 10y agoI highly doubt it's going to be removed from circulation forever. My guess is it'll be archived internally, the disc itself will end up in their campus museum, and at some point legal will sign off on releasing it to the public. SC1 is coming up on its 20th anniversary next year, who knows what they'll do for the occasion.
- acuozzo 10y ago> I highly doubt it's going to be removed from circulation forever. Agreed, but sometimes… Shit: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1937_Fox_vault_fire https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1937_Fox_vault_fire Happens: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1967_MGM_vault_fire https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1967_MGM_vault_fire Preservation requires distribution.
- scrollaway 10y agoOf course, and thankfully I know for a fact Blizzard has redundant backups of all their source control :) The disc would die in a fire certainly, but so would it if it were at the Archive.
- jrimbault 10y agoMore likely imo, someone will be charged with archiving it inside Blizzard and on their internal repos.
- jpgvm 10y agoBlizzard already has the source code, in fact it's actively being extended as part of a HD remaster right now. I have no doubt they are very happy to have the original copy back, it probably means quite a lot of the original developers and I would never dream of keeping it from them had it been up to me. I would definitely hope they keep the hard copy somewhere safe but history hasn't been kind to game source code.
- test1235 10y agoYou'd still get in trouble for making that copy and distributing it.
- seanp2k2 10y agoyou're not distributing it and I'd trust the people at the Internet Archive to keep it anonymous and Do the Right Thing.
- fredoliveira 10y agoDistributing to one entity is still distributing.
- crimsoneer 10y agoYes, and when Blizzard notice that exact same source code you have conveniently appeared on the internet a few months later from an anonymous source, I'm confident they won't inform the police and sue me to fuck.
- wtetzner 10y agoSo send it to Blizzard anonymously as well.
- rejschaap 10y agoI would replace step 3 with framing it nicely and hiding it in in a corner in my attic. A couple centuries from now it will end up in a pawn shop somewhere
- IsmaOlvey 10y agoAnd, importantly, never tell anyone about #2 (at least until you can be completely certain Blizzard won't take action against you).