Just bought this on ebay. What should I do with it?

Return it to blizzard right now and whatever you do, DO NOT COPY THAT FLOPPY

>>385218582
I've never understood the whole thing with this. Did Blizzard seriously not keep a fucking copy of the original source code? It literally existed only on a disc that got lost?

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>The guy actually returned it to Blizzard
>Blizz gives him like $40 in store credit

>>385218889
They probably did have the source code.
They just dont want the public having that source code.

>>385218947
they also flew him to blizzcon with all expenses paid

>>385218991
>They probably did have the source code.
>They just dont want the public having that source code.
Good point, senpai. Explain this for autists though: what exactly can you do with the source code that you can't do by just modding the game and accessing the code that already freely exists?

>>385219131
Besides simple stuff like art changes, modding a game requires changing the code.


You can either reverse engineer it with hex editing and shit which will take you a very long time, or use the source code and makes changes to things in no time at all.

>>385219074
still not worth it imo

This retard should have just made a copy of the disc, given it back to them, and then released the code a year later through some anonymous source. What a fucking cocksucker.

>>385219519
no, of course it wasn't worth it. but he didn't just get $40.

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there is virtually nothing of value on that disc

>>385219609
>Implying a multi billion company can't track you down
I hope you're not this stupid

>he doesnt uplaod it in parts disguised as something else
wew

>>385219609
if the source code got out then he would literally be the first person they look into, since he was the last person known to be in possession of the disc.
i mean, they'd still need to prove it was actually him, but i understand why he wouldn't want to take the risk.

>>385218582
This was posted on reddit silly.

>>385220351


>make a replica of the disc
>put it on ebay for 10$ buy it now
>buy it with alt account

>start spreading the ebay link around
>release the source code

>>385219074
poor guy

>>385218582
You should wonder why you wasted money on it in the first place

>>385220493
>sell it for 10 bucks
>actiblizzard now stuff your ass so full of legal fees and summons you cant shit for a year

>>385220737
>>385220493
>make copy
>give original back
>later after you did your hookers and blow with blizz leak it somewhere
>say it wasnt you

>>385220737
First-sale doctrine. He'd be fine.

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>>385219913

>>385221151
would that hold up since blizzard (the copyright holder) didn't actually sell him the source code?

THAT FUCKING REDDITOR GAVE IT BACK FOR LIKE 50 DOLLARS WORTH OF OVERWATCH TRASH FUCK YOU FUCK YOU FUCK YOU

>>385218889
Probably some dev got it home and forgot about it. Since they've made the remake and 1 patch recentrly, I assume they have the source code, they just don't want it public so others won't be able to export the remake files and use them on modified original client or something.

>>385221151
The code is not his. He was in possesion of disk, but that doesn't make him the copyright holder. Even if he sold the disk, he sold it without the approval of copyright holder, which is ActiBlizzard

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>implying this wasn't set up by Bliz to get attention and hype for the starcraft remake
Oh yeah, he just happened to find the gold master source code in the middle of a random bundle that he bought on ebay. and the owner's parents unknowingly sold it.

I mean, fuck even the dumbest of parents can see that the gold disk is the marketable item here and would have looked it up beforehand.

>>385220870
>say it wasn't you
Ohhhhhh of course. I'll have to think of that next time I do something illegal.

>>385222001
yeah, works great, just dont get caught

>>385219991
sure they can't if you never posts on reddit

>find starcraft source code
>first thought is to go to reddit
>"hey guise, look what i found :DDDD"
>has to return it to daddy blizzard
>"c-can i have something, master?"
>they have to give the guy something because i'll look bad if they don't
>just give him overwatch garbage and a free pass to blizzcon

what an idiot

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>yfw the comments in it are all full of super racist bants and that's the only reason blizzard cares so much

It's literally their mengsk confession adjutant

>>385222315
WTF I LOVE BLIZZARD NOW

>>385219074
Wooow

well what are you supposed to do with it? keep it and worship it? you couldn't show it to anyone without getting busted where did he even get it

>>385218889

they probably lost their source code

wouldn't be the first time, Sega lost basically everything from the 90's and they're not the only ones

>>385220351

he should have had a fucking brain and just put it on dropbox or something anonymously and never told anybody he had it in the ifrst place

>>385222659
sell it for a nice profit to someone on assemblergames and have him worry about it and release the content out if he wanted to

>>385222757
this
dumbass blew a golden opportunity for internet points

>>385219913
except to all the people who could break starcraft free of bnet and make it so the game isn't tainted and eventually shut down to make way for "SC remastered featuring loot crates for $9.99 a pop get your zerg skins here"

it would have also given some insight into how bnet worked in general, we might have seen some higher quality d2 pservers out of it.

>>385218582
nothing becase that CD is fucking dead after 19 years

>>385223381
t. blizzard

>>385223151
Yea how about this person makes their own starcraft like game then?
That's not illegal
No need to droll over a 20 year old game fag

>>385219074
Knowing blizzard they flew him in with the luggage and then made him help setup the con.

>>385222659
>go to a public wi-fi spot
>leak it through tor
>clean your hard drive

literally impossible to prove it was him

>>385222315
>getUnitName VCE
>//Fucking nigger worker is slow as shit, hotfix in VCE.cpp

Lmao

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Pardon me if this is a dumb question, but assuming he wanted to upload it somewhere anonymously how could he have done so in a reasonable manner? If blizzard really wanted to track his ass down, they could/would do it, right?

>>385219131
>what exactly can you do with the source code that you can't do by just modding the game and accessing the code that already freely exists?
Did you even once in you life tried to understand some disassembled / decompiled code with machine generated labels / function names etc.?
Now compare with being able to read the original dev commented source.

Who gives a fuck what he does with it? Are you seriously clamoring for fucking vanilla Starcraft (not even Brood War) mods/the engine? What the fuck would ANYBODY do with that? The only thing we'd see are like 50 "Starcraft: Rebalanced" mods and maybe one or two platformers as a proof of concept tech demo. People acting like this is some sort of major sin that the guy didn't want to get fucked in the ass in jail for 20 years just to appease some retards on the Internet is insane.

>>385218582
I would have copied it and handed to as many people as possible. Huge ammounts of copies so nobody realise it was me at the end.

>>385223731

wouldn't be that hard if you actually cared

>>385223381
Sounds like a mob hit

>>385223731
see >>385223606

>>385223381
wot? I still have my burned copies of SC1 (98) and D1 (97) that I made with a friend's retail copies. Works perfectly. And that's on a shitty CD-R.

>>385223606
Nigga he's still buying CDs in 2017, this guy is probably a technically illiterate retard. He is not going to put himself at risk releasing the source code for a twenty year old game so that retards can make STARCRAFT GOLD 2017 ***NEW*** v7

>>385223818
you win the most retarded anon of the day award, congrats

>>385218947
I wonder. How much could he have blackmailed them for? A few 100k? A million? More? Less?

>>385224058
Nothing. It's legally their property and they'd sue his ass to get it back without any chance of losing the case.

>>385219131
see beamdog and the iwdii sc

>>385224058
0 you fucking idiot, it's their goddamn property. If I steal a million dollars from a bank, put it in a briefcase then sell it to you for 40 dollars at a garage sale the court won't say "Well he bought it for 40 dollars at some fucking garage sale, the money is clearly his".

>>385223092
>Anonymous dropbox
>Awarded internet cred

The guy got an all expenses paid trip to blizzcon.

That's more than he would have gotten from an anonymous leak.

>>385224382
Stealing is way different than finding something randomly. The disc wasn't stolen as far as we know. It would be like finding a painting worth millions that no one is looking for at a garage sale. Would the artist be entitled to his painting even though it was never stolen?

>>385224631
he probably could've gotten at least one thousand dollars if he wasn't retarded

>>385224631
FUCKING
THIS

If I had the choice between getting a free vacation and knowing that I released the source code to the shitty non-Brood War version of Starcraft and never being able to tell anybody about it at risk of getting found out and being sued up the ass, I'd choose the vacation over anything else.

>>385223092
If he leaked it with his identity then you know blizzard would go after him.

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Just did this sick case mod with one of my dads old xboxes, what do you guys think?

>>385224819
Hi blizzard

>>385224757
Yes because it obviously was fucking stolen; if you're trusting somebody with the Starcraft GOLD SOURCE CODE, I think it's pretty clear that they were pretty high up the corporate ladder and didn't want the code to end up in a garage sale.
If Vincent Van Gogh (Blizzard) had a painting (Starcraft Source Code) hanging up in his house (Blizzard's headquarters), went to sleep, woke up to find it missing (stolen), then twenty years later heard that painting was at a garage sale for 20$, it still fucking belongs to Van Gogh, it doesn't matter how many times it was exchanged.

>>385224631
>>385224819
>Not getting both
Plausable deniability

>>385223092
>source code has been missing
>never gets uploaded or leaked
>Guy gets the source code
>gets leaked after
Yeah, no. He'd be fucked.

>>385218582
>Just bought this on ebay
Sure you did.

https://us.battle.net/forums/en/starcraft/topic/20753737754

>>385225349
It must suck to be so autistic and out of touch as to not get the joke like everyone else in the thread did.

>>385223092
>Get massively sued into oblivion by Blizzard.

Yeah ruin your entire financial future to look cool on the internet. You'd have to be a complete fucking dumbass.

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>>385225461
I choose to not play along with your shitty fucking threads that add nothing. Don't be upset, sweetie

>>385225539
uhmm sweetie, don't you have some dino chicken nuggets to eat?? Run along and let the mean talk silly boy

>>385223151
>He doesn't know that SC1 didnt need b.net to run or play multiplayer

>>385221825
That's exactly what the first-sale doctrine protects. He'd be allowed to sell the disk regardless of who owns the copyright of it's contents. He's just not allowed to release the code. But he wouldn't be liable if the person he sold it to released it.

>this all happens right before a big Starcraft rerelease
>goes straight onto Reddit for maximum internet exposure
>all those comments on how the loot is so good and Blizzard is so great

It couldn't have been any more of an obvious publicity stunt if they had tried. This is the same company who "leaked" the Necromancer by just uploading an image to their website and taking it down an hour later a few days before Blizzcon revealed it.

>>385224995
>destroyed a devkit for an i3 1050ti "rig"
What a fucking retard. Could have sold it and made an i7 1080ti rig

>>385224995
I will never not be angry

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>>385218582
>>385224995

To be honest If I'd ever find something like this IRL. I would also shill it to /v/ and reddit and then break it/deliver it to the developer on purpose just to see all the salty tears here.

Just imagine the fucking (You)s and the rage you'd cause. That'd be worth more than all the money in the world.

>>385226780
>I got two dozen (You)s!
>this is the most validation as a person I've ever received
>the fire of human recognition will surely outlast any material possessions I could have purchased

You're what we call an idiot, anon. Have one on the house.

>>385227179
Nope the source code CD and xbox devkit are still talked about to this day and probably for decades to come. This would be absolutely worth it.

Has to be something of similar caliber like finding the source code to Ocarina of Time or something.

>idiot replies with most obvious idiotic response
Wew lad, good for you

>>385227519
If I ever found an Ura Zelda prototype I'd livestream me smashing it

>>385227958
Exactly you get it.

If you'd leak the source code online people talk about it for 1 week. It would get into news sites and reddit front page. And then everyone would move on.

If you'd sell it you'd make some good money and go on holiday 2-3 times.

But if you'd do something like proving you have it and then smashing it on livestream you'd become a legend. People would talk about it for decades to come. Every time a Zelda thread gets made it would get mentioned by at least someone.

>>385219131
I don't know that much about programming, but I think it's kinda like trying to modify your car without being able to open up the hood.

>>385219913
IT'S PAYNE

>>385224189
>copy that CD
>only show the copied CD on the web, never original
>blizzard wants it back
>"it's our property, it clearly was stolen"
>lol nope
>somewhere there might be a stolen CD from yours, but this one isn't, this is just a copy I bought from some flee market

It's so easy not caving in.

>>385230586
>lol nope
>somewhere there might be a stolen CD from yours, but this one isn't, this is just a copy I bought from some flee market
Do you expect that shit to fly?

>>385230669
Sure, why not?
What are they gonna do about it? Cry that the source code contained on that CD is theirs? Well, no shit, Blizzard, but the CD would still be mine!
Also, I wouldn't tell them my adress anyway so where would they send their lawyers?

>>385223731
>Get laptop out of old laptop pile (You do have one, right?)
>Install gahnoo linucks
>Go to local library/starbucks/anywhere that isn't >close to your place of residence
>Upload .iso to pomf.cat
>Leave laptop in car so there's no footage of you using the internet in the store
>Post thread on /v/ "STARCRAFT 2 SOURCE CODE GET IT WHILE IT'S HOT"

Simply, he never should have advertised he had it.
If he just leaked it anonymously the code would have gotten out and he could later just publicly go OWO whats this if he ever actually wanted to get something for the disk.
Epeen isn't worth shit if it gets you lawyered up.

>>385230897
Yeah the files on theirs are to legally release or not. It is not on the person to give the CD though.

>>385230914
Alternatively:
>Copy disk xjuangorillion
>Mail it to a bunch of guys from assembler forums, betaarchive, reviewers, LGR, Druaga1 etc
>Cat is out of the bag
>Leak it
>Blizz gives up trying to find who it was

>>38522678 0
>doing it for (yous)
>on a board thats been on a steep decline for the past 7 years
>filled with redditors
number rolling kek praising /b/ DON shitter fucking die. you dont deserve this you.

>>385218582
Never understood what the issue with that was.
At least post the idiot who destroyed a rare inhouse devkit for the original xbox to score some upvotes from fellow PCMR kids. Didn't he even start lying afterwards how his father tried selling it on reddit but nobody cared?
>>385223381
Maybe if it was exposed to sunlight all the time

>>385230914
Couldn't you just buy a cheap-ass smartphone and upload it from there? Having the phone running in your pocket while you go shopping and use their public WLan?
As long as you don't put a SIM card into and don't use any accounts on it, t he smartphone should be completely anonymous, right?
And if anyone was to go to the trouble of checking the security tapes from the store, all they'd see is a chill dude shopping in a mall, instead of a weird geek wearing a Starcraft shirt typing furiously on an old thinkpad.

>>385222682
Either lost or just deleted. Game back than was all about getting it out and forgetting about it to move to the next thing. Plus HDD were expensive as fuck and only held a few Gigs at best. So cost wise it didn't make sense to have all that space for source codes.

>>385220110
>tfw hundreds of people really uploaded source codes of games under different names
>everyone thinks they're some kind of virus and stay away from them
>upload site goes down sometime in the future and the code is lost forever for public

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>>385226780
>this anon wants his legacy to be people saying "Hey, remember that one retard?"

>>385218582
the other thread isn't even dead yet, couldn't you have just waited another hour or two?

>>385233151
welp, fuck me, it just died.

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>>385226780
you must live an existence even more pathetic and pointless than starving children in third world countries.