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posted by martyb on Tuesday July 31 2018, @05:27AM   Printer-friendly
from the Godzilla-stomping-action dept.

TorrentFreak:

After more than a quarter-century, SimCity 2000 still receives plenty of interest from nostalgic gamers who like to relive their early gaming experiences. This is likely one of the reasons why developer Nicholas Ochoa decided to code a remake using the Electron framework.

The game, titled OpenSC2K, was released on GitHub earlier this year and received quite a bit of attention on sites such as Reddit and Hacker News.

While it is billed as an “open source” version, the remake did include original artwork, belonging to Electronic Arts. These images and sounds are definitely not free to use, something the developer is fully aware of now.

A few days ago Electronic Arts sent a DMCA takedown notice to GitHub asking the platform to remove the infringing repository from its site.

“Assets from the game SimCity 2000 are being infringed upon,” EA writes. The company points out that the game can be purchased legally through Origin where it’s still being sold for a few dollars.

While OpenSC2K is far from a full remake, Electronic Arts makes it clear that the SimCity 2000 assets are not for public use.


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  • (Score: 5, Insightful) by ikanreed on Tuesday July 31 2018, @01:41PM

    by ikanreed (3164) Subscriber Badge on Tuesday July 31 2018, @01:41PM (#715180) Journal

    I agree with you, but also it does hint at the vacuousness of extremely lengthy copyrights. Not one of the artists who made those pixel graphic assets are getting residuals from SC2000. Even if they bought Maxis-cum-EA stock in their 401k, I can't imagine this lawsuit is a net positive on their books. Maybe it's just nothing I've made in my life from a quarter century ago is worth suing people over, but the law starts to feel overextended around this age.

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