Good news everyone, Epic Megagames wants to literally destroy software as it exists today This is a deranged and wildly irresponsible argument for a game developer to make in a lawsuitpic.twitter.com/1PD9DmqC15
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Sheesh, spilling coffee on a paperback does not create an illegal derivative work under copyright law.
But publishers would love if it did
First sale doctrine should work in here somewhere too. but mostly, public shaming.
Many branch prediction algorithms work better on direct instructions & many platforms have a far higher cost for indirect jumps. Also some platforms do things like vtables as a bunch of jump instructions, as opposed to bare function pointers.
Changing a big table of jump addresses is functionally equivalent to altering jump/branch targets directly in code. I can’t imagine they will have a legal distinction. Plus many platforms to fix ups to the instruction stream@not a jump Table because...
1) You are allowed to make a copy for archival purposes, 2) running the software (and swapping it to disk) has always been "fair use".
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