SuperTaz Posted June 24, 2017 Share Posted June 24, 2017 https://www.yahoo.com/finance/news/rockstar-games-two-seem-back-030200249.html Earlier this month, Grand Theft Auto publisher Take-Two angered the PC gaming community after sending a cease and desist letter to the developers of the OpenIV modding tool. OpenIV allowed people to create modifications for GTA IV and GTA V single player, but according to its creators, the letter said their tool could "allow third parties to defeat security features of its software and modify that software in violation Take-Two's rights." Facing the threat of legal action, they announced on June 14th that they would stop distributing OpenIV. Now, after revolt by players including a campaign of bad ratings for the GTA games on Steam and a Change.org petition with over 77,000 signatures, Rockstar Games may have worked out a solution. A post on its support forum today said that Take Two has agreed that it will "generally" not take legal action against third party projects as long as they meet certain guidelines. "After discussions with Take-Two, Take-Two has agreed that it generally will not take legal action against third-party projects involving Rockstar's PC games that are single-player, non-commercial, and respect the intellectual property (IP) rights of third parties. This does not apply to (i) multiplayer or online services; (ii) tools, files, libraries, or functions that could be used to impact multiplayer or online services, or (iii) use or importation of other IP (including other Rockstar IP) in the project." Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
HSMagnet Posted June 24, 2017 Share Posted June 24, 2017 nice, digital extremes recently threatened a data-miner with legal action [DE] Rebecca “For almost three years we turned a blind eye knowing that the parts of the community found value in these [statistics],” Rebecca says. “Then our unreleased quest scripts got datamined which we spoke on in this subreddit – we encouraged people not to read it and continued working on what we hoped would remain a surprise. “Then Umbra Screenshots and Primed Streamline screenshots appeared. Then we investigated how those things came to be. Then our blind eye was forced to act when our game was being directly affected in extremely dangerous ways.” Void_Glitch stated… “Maybe uploading Languages.bin is it a bit excessive, but there is mass desire for DropTables and MissionDecks as I am told. Under your legal constraint, I cannot actually upload without fear of a lawsuit, but I only do this to help the community, not to damage your game or to slander your company.” http://www.oneangrygamer.net/2017/06/digital-extremes-shut-down-warframe-void_glitch-repository-due-to-spoilers/33599/ Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
HSMagnet Posted June 24, 2017 Share Posted June 24, 2017 there was a 3rd party team that Void_Glitch was aware of hacking custom items into the game and selling for platinum which is the currency that is available for real cash Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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