That’s like GTA4. A lot of the music was removed on PC because of license expiration and people were mad, but they can’t legally keep it in the game if it’s expired.
Just a little offtopic here: They could have made it so, if you provide a game disc to extract and feed the music into the PC version. I mean that is what fans are doing with their own open source PC ports of console games in example. But I don’t know if the license agreements prohibit even that.
I’m sure it would be argued and the RIAA would try to file a lawsuit against publishers doing that saying it is contributing or enabling piracy in some way. Personally, I would think that’s a stupid argument, but publishers I’m sure would do their best to avoid any legal drama if they can.
That is a similar argument about emulation contributing to piracy. Providing your own disc does not mean its piracy. In general the argumentation itself is “stupid” in my opinion too, but not ungrounded. I mean in case of the PC ports requiring a specific ROM or ISO file with a specific hash means, its not your own copy of the game you need to get from somewhere. That is in fact contributing to piracy.
But in case Rockstar does it by reading files directly out of a disc you provide, not requiring one specific ISO file, then the argument of contributing to piracy falls flat. And yes, I think you are right. Not only needs this extra development time and cost, and hinders their developers to work on something different. They would most likely try to avoid any such risks.
I guess our only hope is the community taking this in their hands and doing mods or custom tools to do this.
Just a little offtopic here: They could have made it so, if you provide a game disc to extract and feed the music into the PC version. I mean that is what fans are doing with their own open source PC ports of console games in example. But I don’t know if the license agreements prohibit even that.
I’m sure it would be argued and the RIAA would try to file a lawsuit against publishers doing that saying it is contributing or enabling piracy in some way. Personally, I would think that’s a stupid argument, but publishers I’m sure would do their best to avoid any legal drama if they can.
That is a similar argument about emulation contributing to piracy. Providing your own disc does not mean its piracy. In general the argumentation itself is “stupid” in my opinion too, but not ungrounded. I mean in case of the PC ports requiring a specific ROM or ISO file with a specific hash means, its not your own copy of the game you need to get from somewhere. That is in fact contributing to piracy.
But in case Rockstar does it by reading files directly out of a disc you provide, not requiring one specific ISO file, then the argument of contributing to piracy falls flat. And yes, I think you are right. Not only needs this extra development time and cost, and hinders their developers to work on something different. They would most likely try to avoid any such risks.
I guess our only hope is the community taking this in their hands and doing mods or custom tools to do this.