Comment on The full source code for GTA 5 has been publicly leaked
joemo@lemmy.sdf.org 10 months agoThere’s no way this is true. I can literally think of similar code as what’s in GTA V, I have never opened the link. Does that open me up to a law suit? That’s crazy.
SzethFriendOfNimi@lemmy.world 10 months ago
Directly, probably not. But if you work on an engine team or on a game and there’s some future lawsuit implying that the methods and techniques match their stuff then it will be costly. Companies would rather just avoid the potential liability.
Here’s an article discussing some aspects of Nintendo leaks being risky for those who work on emulators
vice.com/…/using-leaked-nintendo-source-code-pose…