Comment on AI is mass decompiling games. That's both awesome and scary.
zlatko@programming.dev 3 days agoIt’s not really copyright that you want to go away. It’s corporations exploiting the work of individuals. There are countries that have much saner, a lot more ethical laws around it.
The AI issue here is their theft, and since the theft is not addressed, it’s going to get ugly, and the big game producers will just lock games behind networks , so unless you’re online and likely paying a subscription, you ain’t gonna be pLaying thaT game.
VibeSurgeon@piefed.social 3 days ago
Decompilation offers you the possibility of cutting out network-required features, if you dream a little bigger.
jaycifer@lemmy.world 2 days ago
They’re not talking about individual features, they’re talking about locking the entire game behind a network (such as game streaming) so the game can’t be downloaded to be decompiled in the first place.
VibeSurgeon@piefed.social 2 days ago
It’s been tried before, but the fundamental limitations on networking- not to mention the compute you have to spend in data centers to run it - makes it pretty unlikely to happen, especially as a means of preventing piracy.
nilloc@discuss.tchncs.de 2 days ago
Aren’t we assuming the data center buildout is to monopolize compute and turn our home computing into dumb screens?
That’s what I think the hyper scalers are planning, especially after the LLM bubble pops.