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Take-Two vs The GTA Modding Community, 2021 E&E Edition


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10 hours ago, Kocane said:

Modders need to use russian sites where any american company basically gets told to f*ck off.

wouldnt help, Take-Two has successfully DMCA'd a popular russian modding site

 

https://libertycity.ru/news/site/5170-take-two-snova-blokiruet-mody-na-nashem.html

 

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On 12/29/2021 at 2:03 AM, Kocane said:

Modders need to use russian sites where any american company basically gets told to f*ck off.

LibertyCity.ru already surrendered to Take-Two, so I've yet to see a GTA modding site actually give Take-Two the finger and refuse to take down any mods that might get C&D'd by T2.

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On 12/22/2021 at 8:38 PM, DodgeSomrs said:

Well, we'll just wait until they settle this one down. If Take-Two wins the case, we're all done.

they won already, they released trash which shouldn't never been released to begin with

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20 hours ago, Kocane said:

Modders need to use russian sites where any american company basically gets told to f*ck off.

Nah. You just keep silent, and make sure that only trusted people knows and have access to the stuff you do. Pretty much possible I'd say. Those dumbf*ck investigators can't have access to each and every privatge discord room, repository, shared disk or whatever.

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The fact is that Libertycity.ru complied to the request. It would have been better if they would have told T2 to take their DMCA and f*ck off, honestly. Probably if the site was managed by someone else they would have ignored their request.

 

The Digital Millennium Copyright Act does not apply on Russian soil thus on any russian-hosted websites. Take-Two can't do anything to the content hosted there or to any DMCA-ignoring countries. If the owner of the site decides to surrender to T2, that is another different story.

 

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Russia

If you decide to host a politically motivated website in Russia, the government will automatically shut it down. In recent years, bloggers and political figures in Russia who run such websites have been incarcerated. However, they don't pay any attention to any United States copyright laws. Russia is among the few countries where piracy is rampant and highly tolerated.

https://worldpopulationreview.com/country-rankings/dmca-ignored-countries

GooD-NTS got a letter from Russian lawyers in Take-Two's name for OpenIV, so...

Well, sh*t. First of all, didn't Take Two say "okay, we'll let you be", and second, OpenIV hasn't been updated in year and a half, so why now?

EDIT. Damn, for a second I thought that OpenIV got hit again.

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9 minutes ago, Claude_Lib said:

Well, sh*t. First of all, didn't Take Two say "okay, we'll let you be", and second, OpenIV hasn't been updated in year and a half, so why now?

EDIT. Damn, for a second I thought that OpenIV got hit again.

Lmao no, I meant in 2017. :p 

Bonjour!

 

Is contributing to a legal defense a possibility? Would not mind an option for cryptocurrencies either.

 

Lets win and not set a terrible precedent for open source modding projects 😞

 

Thanks

 

On 1/7/2022 at 1:37 AM, tony cibriani65 said:

Hello, I'm new here and I heard about a mod called gta liberty city stories: pc edition, but I can't find it, is there anyone who can help me?

It was developed (and sold) by Ryadica926, who got scared that Zeldick might come after him as well, so he shut everything down.

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16 hours ago, Claude_Lib said:

he shut everything down.

I think that Ryadica shutting down the mod is just temporary. I heard that the Re:LCS forum is hidden from plain sight in the forums while the RE lawsuit is still happening. If everything cools down then Ryadica can bring it back.

 

Also, he might be making updates in secret while the mod development is still on hold. I hope the mod gets a full update with bug fixes and more features.

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3 hours ago, DodgeSomrs said:

I think that Ryadica shutting down the mod is just temporary. I heard that the Re:LCS forum is hidden from plain sight in the forums while the RE lawsuit is still happening. If everything cools down then Ryadica can bring it back.

 

Also, he might be making updates in secret while the mod development is still on hold. I hope the mod gets a full update with bug fixes and more features.

I hope so.

 

But all of his other standalone mods like Taxi Driver Randomizer, SA/LCS Crosshair etc. are gone too, I don't get it.🤔

On 1/8/2022 at 6:20 PM, Claude_Lib said:

It was developed (and sold) by Ryadica926, who got scared that Zeldick might come after him as well, so he shut everything down.

Actually he got a DMCA takedown too, so he had to take it down

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when you perfectly balanced person so hard, you start hurling insults

 

goddamn wordfilters ruined everything

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1 hour ago, VCPR Official said:

when you perfectly balanced person so hard, you start hurling insults

 

goddamn wordfilters ruined everything

Hoo boy, someone really needs anger management. Look at all those slurs.

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I see someone is taking notes from Take 2. Also, a good reminder why 'Patreon mods' are a risky business

 

Edited by just Gesha

I remember when more than 10 years ago people were saying that we won't be allowed to record video games and post the videos on YouTube under some new law.

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4 hours ago, rider_66 said:

Oh, some funny sh*t again. I wonder when some wise guy will pop up and will ask to remove all Doom 1 mods, or Transport Tycoon mods. Greedy legal f*cks.

only person who could call for deleting mods for boomer shooters is Randy Pitchsquirt :kekw: 

in other news, T2 can't let it go:

 

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