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You can now play Grand Theft Auto Vice City in the browser

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Re: You can now play Grand Theft Auto Vice City in the browser

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Post by aeonfox »

hiccuphippo wrote: post #56
tobyjsullivan wrote: post #37

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> agree with authors, every game older than 10 years, and that is not in active development, should be made open source so that community Note that GTA V is now 12 years old and still sells ~20M copies per year. So that’s going to be a tough sell in some cases. You could argue it’s still actively developed, particularly due to online, so fair enough. But that’s also sort of true for Vice City. They’ve released mobile…

I'd extend it to all copyright but instead of "active development" make it a nominal fee every 10 years, so anyone that doesn't mind their work becoming public domain 10, 20, 30, etc years later can easily let it go.

Most IP owners would pay the tiny fee just to hold onto IP rights and do absolutely nothing with it. If I were designing this hypothetical legislation I'd make it 10 years without a release that works on new hardware and the copyright is lost. This would at least incentivise the owners to do remasters just to hold onto the IP, something that would make them a few bucks anyway.

Re: You can now play Grand Theft Auto Vice City in the browser

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Post by brailsafe »

stevezsa8 wrote: post #41
bossyTeacher wrote: post #32

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> how are they legal ? they are not, but then again so are many things. We choose what laws to enforce (see 18-20 year olds drinking, unmarried cohabitation, etc). just because it is not legal does not mean that law enforcement will care.

In which country is unmarried cohabitation not legal?

Depends on your definition of marriage. Various places with common law automatically make you effectively married as far as family law and tax law are concerned, and insofar as people involve the courts.

After 1 year of cohabitation in Canada, couples are federally common law spouses for tax purposes. Provincially it depends, but after 2 years in some provinces you're technically and automatically spouses for family law purposes, which gives someone the same legal rights as an explicitly married couple in terms of asset division and parental obligations following a breakup (which is outdated and insane in many cases outside of having children, but whatever).

Re: You can now play Grand Theft Auto Vice City in the browser

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Post by amarant »

desdenova wrote: post #68
amarant wrote: post #47

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Oh damn, my cousin had carmageddon! We'd stay up all night long playing it when I visited him! Now I gotta find that other game he had, but I don't remember what it was called. It was kinda like reverse GTA: you played as a female cop and you had to stop the criminals. Iirc there were corrupt cops later on in the game.

Would that be Urban Chaos?

Yes! That's the one! Thanks! Omg, I need to play that game now!

Re: You can now play Grand Theft Auto Vice City in the browser

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Post by ghssds »

stevezsa8 wrote: post #41
bossyTeacher wrote: post #32

Earlier quoted context omitted.

> how are they legal ? they are not, but then again so are many things. We choose what laws to enforce (see 18-20 year olds drinking, unmarried cohabitation, etc). just because it is not legal does not mean that law enforcement will care.

In which country is unmarried cohabitation not legal?

Burundi, since 2018.

Re: You can now play Grand Theft Auto Vice City in the browser

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Post by m463 »

systemtest wrote: post #61
wiseowise wrote: post #7

Still remember how my PC was freezing on VC 20 years ago, and now I can play it in a browser in 120 fps. Wild. Big kudos to https://github.com/SugaryHull/re3/tree/miami on which this is based on. Wholeheartedly agree with authors, every game older than 10 years, and that is not in active development, should be made open source so that community can keep games alive instead of letting them rot.

2003 is 22 years ago. The events in the game take place 16 years in the past. I feel nostalgic for Vice City the same way people felt nostalgic for the 80s when the game was released.

I still hear the sound of cars going by when you stand on the sidewalk.

Re: You can now play Grand Theft Auto Vice City in the browser

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Post by smt88 »

medstrom wrote: post #64
systemtest wrote: post #61

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2003 is 22 years ago. The events in the game take place 16 years in the past. I feel nostalgic for Vice City the same way people felt nostalgic for the 80s when the game was released.

Damn, the 80s felt that recent ?

No, because culture seems to change more slowly now.

Even in 1995, the 80s looked like a different planet. The fashions, cars, and even houses looked different.

The differences between 2003 and 2013, or between 2013 and 2023, are much less noticeable if you're just looking at fashion, cars, or cities.

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