No? They took copyright content, including models, textures, sounds, and scripts. Copyright can apply to freely shared material.Copyright was designed to allow authors to control who gets to use their work, and lets them set a price if they want. Copyright on interpreted scripts for an engine you don't own is less than easy to legally accomplish, so you can only reduce the likelihood of theft by a.) sharing it freely, b.) putting some effort into obscuring it. (Making illegible and convoluted to the lay) You cannot however outright deny people's ability to look at scripts as the EULA by BIS, a preemptive contract, abides party 2, the user upon usage of party 1, BIS' software to such stipulationsArt itself is protected by a larger and more accepted protectorate abroad than copyright. (DCMA)Copyright on software has no place, nor does patents for software. You're best to be crafty with the design of your software if you don't want your hard work yanked, because arbitrary government-level regulations have done more damage to the small guy than good due to their almost unlimited power provisions. They serve for the benefit of large conglomerates in modern day as are most known about regulatory writs, used to oppress, control, silence and weaken societies.You're supporting morally wrong people, who are worse than normal thieves, people who use fear mongering as an instrument of anti-competition by harassing people in the ARMA community with false DCMA violation submissions, falsely written, libelous and slanderous e-mails, and more on the horizon no doubt. Then add in denouncement of claims for copyright and artistically protected material infringement, blatantly misleading propaganda, blacklisting by BIS due to EULA violation with specific emphasis on monetary channeling.
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