{"id":1324,"date":"2017-06-14T22:51:09","date_gmt":"2017-06-14T19:51:09","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/openiv.com\/?p=1324"},"modified":"2017-06-14T22:51:09","modified_gmt":"2017-06-14T19:51:09","slug":"take-two-vs-modding","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/openiv.com\/?p=1324","title":{"rendered":"Take Two vs. Modding"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"color: #808080;\"><em>We feared that this day would come&#8230; And now it&#8217;s here.<\/em><\/span><br \/>\nThe day, when GTA modding was declared illegal.<\/p>\n<p>GTA modding had long and glorious history.<br \/>\nSince GTA III, people have created lots of different mods: from simple texture replacements to impressive full conversions.<\/p>\n<p>And the modding always was a &#8220;<em>gray zone<\/em>&#8221; &#8212; a battlefield between lawyers and PR&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>For almost ten years of OpenIV development, we had tried to play as nice as possible and even more:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Strictly following of Civil Code of Russia (<em>only reverse engineering for interoperability<\/em>).<\/li>\n<li>Only clean-room reverse engineering.<\/li>\n<li>No distribution of original data and code.<\/li>\n<li>And absolutely no messing with Online&#8230;<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><strong>On June 5th, 2017, we had received an official Cease-and-Desist letter.<\/strong><br \/>\nIt clearly says, that with OpenIV we &#8220;<strong><span style=\"color: #993300;\"><em>allow third parties to defeat security features of its software and modify that software in violation Take-Two&#8217;s rights<\/em><\/span><\/strong>&#8220;.<br \/>\nYes, this letter is illiterate both technically and grammatically (really, they don&#8217;t even bothered with proof-reading the text).<br \/>\nYes, we can go to court and yet again prove that modding is fair use and our actions are legal.<br \/>\nYes, we could. But we decided not to.<\/p>\n<p>Going to court will take at least few months of our time and huge amount of efforts, and, at best, we&#8217;ll get absolutely nothing.<br \/>\nSpending time just to restore status quo is really unproductive, and all the money in the world can&#8217;t compensate the loss of time.<\/p>\n<p><strong>So, we decided to agree with their claims and we&#8217;re stopping distribution of OpenIV.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>It was a hard decision, but when any modding activity has been declared illegal, we can&#8217;t see any possibilities to continue this process,<br \/>\nunless top management of Take-Two company makes an official statement about modding, which can be used in court.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/gtaforums.com\/topic\/889348-openiv\/\">Discuss on GTAForums<\/a><\/p>\n<p><strong>With many thanks for all modding community for all your fantastic creations,<\/strong><br \/>\n<strong> OpenIV team.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><em><strong>So long, and thanks for all the fish.<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>We feared that this day would come&#8230; And now it&#8217;s here. The day, when GTA modding was declared illegal. GTA modding had long and glorious history. Since GTA III, people have created lots of different mods: from simple texture replacements to impressive full conversions. And the modding always was a &#8220;gray zone&#8221; &#8212; a battlefield [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"spay_email":""},"categories":[13,3,19,23,28,21,5,7,9],"tags":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":701,"url":"https:\/\/openiv.com\/?p=701","url_meta":{"origin":1324,"position":0},"title":"OpenIV needs you support!","date":"22 August, 2012","format":false,"excerpt":"OpenIV It is the biggest and ambitious project we've ever made. And we enjoy it. We like that fact OpenIV have run more than 7 thousands of times every day. 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