> A very common theme I see among groups who commit time to these game remake/remaster/port passion projects is that they seem quite willfully ignorant of what

> A very common theme I see among groups who commit time to these game remake/remaster/port passion projects is that they seem quite willfully ignorant of what the law is and shocked when the obvious outcome comes to pass. [..]I think this suggests just how strongly emotionally attached people can become to games they grew up with. I have also seen it in non-game projects, e.g. retro OS reimplementations. I am not even sure where this misconception comes: that you can just decompile the original software, rearrange the source files a bit and that's it! . Even otherwise smart people actually believe this. It's incredibly damaging and pervasive thinking; by now I have to mistrust all new "miracle" contributors that come up with significant amounts of code.