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Do you think Rockstar is omniscient?

Seriously. There is actually zero way Rockstar would ever know even if you outright stole some of the code unless you were to admit it. And definitely not if you got some inspiration from it.

The derivative code will get compiled. What are they going to do, pick apart the machine code from every game released from now on to see if it somehow matches a chunk from GTA? And then somehow track down and prove that one of the probably dozens of employees who worked on the game looked at this leaked source code? Good luck with that.

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Not sure about Rockstar, but this seems like something Nintendo would do lol.

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Nintendo would replicate that FTC Family Guy episode if they could.

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Yeah there’s no chance anyone would even know unless you straight up copied enough code that the same bugs and weird physics behaviors show up in your game.

You can get in trouble for having it on your hard drive because it’s copyright infringement, but not for looking at it on a website.

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