Take 2 Take Down Open IV Mod

[Prey]

And ol' Jim Sterling is not too happy about it. Before you watch however here's a little history on the mod itself...

The OpenIV development team has been producing tools to make modding of Grand Theft Auto games easier for a decade, originally for GTA IV and now for GTA V. The group claims to adhere to a code of conduct which includes: 'Strictly following of Civil Code of Russia (only reverse engineering for interoperability); only clean-room reverse engineering; no distribution of original data and code; and absolutely no messing with Online…' Its eponymous tool allows users to quickly load various mods into the game, but only for offline use and never during multiplayer - but that, the group claims, isn't good enough for Take-Two Interactive.

'On June 5th, 2017, we had received an official Cease-and-Desist letter,' the group explains in its announcement. 'It clearly says that with OpenIV we "allow third parties to defeat security features of its software and modify that software in violation Take-Two’s rights." Yes, this letter is illiterate both technically and grammatically (really, they don’t even bothered with proof-reading the text). Yes, we can go to court and yet again prove that modding is fair use and our actions are legal.Yes, we could. But we decided not to.

Original Source: https://www.bit-tech.net/news/gaming/20 ... v-downed/1

And now over to Jim...



Take 2. Taking the Biscuit in 2017.

[Edwin]

I'm suspicious that a bunch of Russians suddenly care about cease and desists.

[Quietman]

http://www.pcgamer.com/heres-rockstars- ... -pcgamertw

Rockstar response

"Take-Two's actions were not specifically targeting single player mods. Unfortunately OpenIV enables recent malicious mods that allow harassment of players and interfere with the GTA Online experience for everybody. We are working to figure out how we can continue to support the creative community without negatively impacting our players."

[Subway Diet]

http://www.pcgamer.com/heres-rockstars-statement-about-take-two-shutting-down-gtas-openiv-modding-tool/?utm_content=buffer227bc&utm_medium=social&utm_source=twitter&utm_campaign=buffer-pcgamertw

Rockstar response

"Take-Two's actions were not specifically targeting single player mods. Unfortunately OpenIV enables recent malicious mods that allow harassment of players and interfere with the GTA Online experience for everybody. We are working to figure out how we can continue to support the creative community without negatively impacting our players."

I feel like this might be relevant as well:



The nature of the take-down notice compared to the public statement is bullshit. Considering Strauss Zelnick doesn't want to give any fun away for free, I would not be surprised if "continue to support the creative community" means cut down, paid modding comes to GTAV.

Anti-consumer bullshit and barefaced corporate contempt.

[Snowy]

His voice is like nails down a blackboard...

[Subway Diet]

Better than some accents I've heard on youtube.

Oh, and you'll like listening to this: