[Crash Course] Decompiling

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decompilers.md

• Ethical / Legal / Social Concerns

  • Theft
  • Ownership
  • Philosophy
    • High Effort vs. Low Effort
  • Derivative Works
    • Fair Use
    • Consent & Revoking Consent

• Distribution

  • Game Servers
  • Private Communities
  • Leaks

• Preservation

• Licensing (c)(r)

• Mostly preserved editor data

  • Reversing brushwork
  • Reversing entities
  • Optimisation Structures
  • Data Loss & Accuracy

• Countermeasures

  • Obfuscation, Data-Miners
  • Malicious Data
  • Limiting Distribution
  • Encryption

• Community Impacts

  • Responsibility
  • Dangers
  • Security

• Research

  • Easy way vs. Hard way
  • Mod community foundations

• Trust

• Citations

  • Mapper communities
  • mp_amogus
  • Consumer Protections
  • Preservation vs. Piracy vs. Open Source