Pretty funny, but seems like a perfectly valid approach. Some dude at Rockstar could either code a no-cd workaround himself to get it listed on Steam, or just reuse one that already works (and was extremely well tested by the pirate community). Imagine trying to obtain (and understand) the source code for a game binary released 7 years ago
No brainer if you ask me. He just forgot to remove the credits.
What, infringing Myth's copyright on the crack? Even if you're right- they had a copyright, and it was enforceable- I doubt there is a person who would be willing to step forward and claim ownership of the crack. Whole point of anonymous groups was nobody could pin it on you.
Plus, restitution of copyright infringement is usually based on damages done. Considering Myth's 'product' was free, there are no sales damages.
Technically, restitution could come in form of statutory damages instead of actual damages. In the US though, the work has to be registered and the crack would certainly fall foul of the DMCA anyway.
It would be interesting if a cracker in another country claimed infringement.
Sounds like the advantages of open source. What they should have done is "accidentally" leaked the code several years ago and now they'd have tons of extras and addons to sell.
provided it came from a high level source (ie they didn't download it off limewire) then i very much doubt it. the original group doing something like that would be scene suicide. keep in mind these groups are only doing it for the kudos.
No brainer if you ask me. He just forgot to remove the credits.