![]() ![]() It will only hurt, if not destroy, what few remnants of the mapping community remain. What you're suggesting is incredibly unethical and serves no possible benefits whatsoever. I also know many of the protected maps uploaded here already were contributed because of the site's policy on not assisting with map unprotection, and 100% of them were protected to prevent unprotected versions from being distributed. ![]() I know I would never upload another map here if the policy changed where the site was going to provide all the tools people need to steal your work. There are so few active mapmakers remaining that alienating some of them by saying "Anything you have released or will release here will no longer be yours, and we will help people steal your work" is not only disgusting and counterproductive to any constructive goal, but it's going to guarantee that mapping activity here drops even further. Yeah, for the worst, if that wasn't completely obvious. ![]() People arguing so adamantly against unprotectors should keep mind that intellectual property can not only be protected but also can be declared open for everyone's use. According to the license (in whose spirit DS was created) you can do whatever you want with the map, even sell it, modify or whatever, but you have to publish all your modifications. But now most versions out there are protected, which is against the open source license. Protection (and unprotection) is sort of a meta game invented by the community.I'm glad someone looks at it that way because when I created Desert Strike I deliberately created it open source (aka unprotected). You have to use unofficial and technically disallowed (but not in practice) 3rd party programs to protect a map. He might have a point about it being morally wrong to unprotect, but he almost sounds like there's some thing legal about sc1 map protection.īlizzard made the editor so that all maps could be opened, with no hint of protection. I just gotta say Azrael "Mapper's Rights" figment is very amusing. Read all the posts that weren't walls of texts. ![]()
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