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Epic Allows Internet Archive to Distribute Unreal and Unreal Tournament Forever

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465 points chocmake | 1 comments | 20 Nov 24 03:15 UTC | HN request time: 0.001s | source
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DerSaidin ◴[20 Nov 24 05:57 UTC] No.42191159[source]▶
Imagine if they added something like this to UE5 licensing:

If your game has not been updated in N years... 1) Internet Archive can distribute it for free 2) Let people distribute modified versions that does not need license key or whatever copy protection.

Harder but extra cool: To get a UE royalty discount, put source code in escrow set to release it if game not updated in N years.

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1. johnmaguire ◴[20 Nov 24 06:28 UTC] No.42191280[source]▶
> If your game has not been updated in N years...

This would impact indie developers and small publishers more than large ones.