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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 #59

The soundtrack is the best part of this game and I'm surprised this site is just allowing anyone to play this, with the soundtrack as-is.

Is it different from youtube? There are infinite number of videos for "gta vice city soundtrack" search.

It's different. YouTube has Content ID, so the labels get compensated even if it's an inofficial upload.

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

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Earlier quoted context omitted.

> 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.

And is in even worse state than switch 1 version was… that’s achievement in itself I guess…

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

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post #92
post #39

Which was the GTA where you rode around on a dirtbike out in the california mountains, and there was like bootleggers and stuff.... man i have serious memories of that game

ALL YOU HAD TO DO WAS FOLLOW THE DAMN TRAIN, CJ!

Dude............omg..............holy SHIT i forgot about that. NOOOOOOO!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

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

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post #81

Earlier quoted context omitted.

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.

The fee should be tiny at first and rise exponentially over time.
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