Pretty crazy.
And he's rewarded big time.
More at the link.
http://kotaku.com/guy-finds-starcraft-source-code-and-returns-it-to-blizz-1794897125
And he's rewarded big time.
Last month, Reddit user Khemist49 made a truly unlikely find: a gold master source code disc of the original StarCraft. From 1998. At first, he didn't know what to do with it. Ultimately, he sent it to Blizzard, who was very grateful to have it back.
Khemist49 first came across the disc in a ”box of Blizzard stuff" he purchased on eBay. He was shocked at what he saw—a CD-R that read ”StarCraft Gold Master Source Code." When he first posted about it on Reddit, some people asked him to rip its contents and make them freely available, while others derided him as ”scummy" for holding onto the disc. He wrote that the decision over what to do with it was driving him ”crazy."
After days of deliberation, Khemist49 said he heard from Blizzard directly. He said the publisher's legal team had asked him to return the disc because it contained ”intellectual property and trade secrets." He sought legal advice about what to do, but ultimately decided to err on the side of caution and send it to Blizzard. For his troubles, he received a copy of Overwatch and $250 in Blizzard store credit. Cool. He figured that was the end of it...
More at the link.
Gets an all-expenses trip to Blizzcon and some other cool shit after the fact
http://kotaku.com/guy-finds-starcraft-source-code-and-returns-it-to-blizz-1794897125