Take-Two are banning GTA V offline modding
Take-Two made a risky move today by sending a formal cease-and-desist letter to a popular GTA V/IV modding tool ‘OpenIV’.
OpenIV stated this on twitter:
There must be a reason, right? Is the modding tool been used as malware or authentication bypassing? Let’s find out!
For almost ten years of OpenIV development, we had tried to play as nice as possible and even more:
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…
So, OpenIV claim to have not done anything wrong. 10 years is a long time to be around, so surely they’ve been fine.
Here is an official statement from OpenIV’s lead developer, GooD-NTS.
Basically, a half-assed letter attempting to shut down OpenIV due to security breaches, essentially.
Not only is this an attack on OpenIV, but an attack on GTA V Modding in general. According to OpenIV, this means that modding activity is essentially illegal now.
As of now, Take-Two haven’t made an official statement on modding which can be used in court, so basically the cease-and-desist is uncalled for and a war on modding.
Source: https://gamefrost.co.uk/2017/06/14/take-two-probably-ban-gta-modding/
Not a smart move R*...
Take-Two made a risky move today by sending a formal cease-and-desist letter to a popular GTA V/IV modding tool ‘OpenIV’.
OpenIV stated this on twitter:
There must be a reason, right? Is the modding tool been used as malware or authentication bypassing? Let’s find out!
For almost ten years of OpenIV development, we had tried to play as nice as possible and even more:
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…
So, OpenIV claim to have not done anything wrong. 10 years is a long time to be around, so surely they’ve been fine.
Here is an official statement from OpenIV’s lead developer, GooD-NTS.
Basically, a half-assed letter attempting to shut down OpenIV due to security breaches, essentially.
Not only is this an attack on OpenIV, but an attack on GTA V Modding in general. According to OpenIV, this means that modding activity is essentially illegal now.
As of now, Take-Two haven’t made an official statement on modding which can be used in court, so basically the cease-and-desist is uncalled for and a war on modding.
Source: https://gamefrost.co.uk/2017/06/14/take-two-probably-ban-gta-modding/
Not a smart move R*...
