Rockstar grabbed the crack made by Razor 1911 and put it on the Steam version of Midnight Club 2 instead of taking out the DRM themselves.
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.
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.
“Stolen” isn’t the right language to use for something that’s been intentionally made available free to anyone who wants it.
Yes it is. Just because you’re distributing your software for free, it doesn’t mean you’re implicitly giving others permission to