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


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On 8/12/2022 at 8:25 AM, olzhas1one said:


We know they didn't distribute the code with the copyrighted game data (models, textures, music, voice-acting etc.)

I am a noob in this stuff, but isn't that what the mod is doing? reusing those very same assets? if I was to show that mod to someone they'd know it's Vice City, because it's using assets from the original game.

 

isn't that what that is?

53 minutes ago, Tez2 said:

More surprised who ever issued out the copyright strike is working on a Sunday. The design document was up since Tuesday. Unless this was automated.

its quite unlikely as the dmca on twitter isn't that automated as i hear, its not like youtube, pretty strange they didnt take down those gta 3 videos 

3 minutes ago, The_Ghost said:

I am a noob in this stuff, but isn't that what the mod is doing? reusing those very same assets? if I was to show that mod to someone they'd know it's Vice City, because it's using assets from the original game.

 

isn't that what that is?

No, what re3 and reVC is that they take the data from the original game files (gta3.img etc.) and then run them through their own engine technically.

 

The best way for you to imagine it is it's like emulation. That's why they say you still need to buy the games.

14 minutes ago, Emmi said:

Maybe GSG is working on GTA 1 and 2 'remakes' and a reveal is imminent and that's why they are taking this down.

 

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lmao

 

Honestly, I'd actually take it. At least they'd be playable and available without messing around.

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8 minutes ago, olzhas1one said:

No, what re3 and reVC is that they take the data from the original game files (gta3.img etc.) and then run them through their own engine technically.

 

The best way for you to imagine it is it's like emulation. That's why they say you still need to buy the games.

Isn't that copyrighted material? making my own exe still doesn't change the fact that I'm pulling from the gta3.img that Rockstar/Take2 owns.

 

Like, I absolutely hate what they've done to the mods and creators, it's Rockstar being stupid, but I am trynna understand how the hell this isn't copyright violation.

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12 minutes ago, The_Ghost said:

Isn't that copyrighted material? making my own exe still doesn't change the fact that I'm pulling from the gta3.img that Rockstar/Take2 owns.

 

Like, I absolutely hate what they've done to the mods and creators, it's Rockstar being stupid, but I am trynna understand how the hell isn't this copyright violation.

No, it doesn't, because you can technically create your own "gta3.img" with completely copyright-free data, there's already a precedent for this with the GZDoom engine and the FreeDoom game, it's going to take too long to explain it in a post, you can easily look that up and find better, more accesible explanations of those two elsewhere.

 

I mean, Take Two could theoretically win by proving that re3 and reVC are reverse-engineered (something their EULA states against doing) but at the same time the re3 team could also prove that it's their own code written from scratch. As I said, an EULA is not a law, it's a contract at best.

 

EDIT: I should mention that you shouldn't see re3 and GZDoom being the same, the reason I brought it up is because GZDoom is a physical example of the legal side of such projects.

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35 minutes ago, olzhas1one said:

Take Two could theoretically win by proving that re3 and reVC are reverse-engineered (something their EULA states against doing)

Do not think things are rigid as that. Reverse-engineering has been declared valid in some cases under the circumstance of not otherwise distributing copyrighted assets in any published material.

 

Are there things that could have been done with the re3 project to provide fewer justifications for R* to use for any legal claims. That's a big 'maybe'.

 

Not like it matters now unfortunately.

 

8 minutes ago, FrankHessen said:

Do not think things are rigid as that. Reverse-engineering has been declared valid in some cases under the circumstance of not otherwise distributing copyrighted assets in any published material.

That's literally what I said in all of my posts.

4 hours ago, JetNormalGuy said:

Im gonna be really honest here, I have never heard of Mike Dailly up until now. Wasn't the original idea of GTA created by Sam Houser and David Jones or am I missing something?

Yeah I do tend to differentiate GTA1 and GTA2 from what came after, they are "different" games, despite them sharing the same name, plus GTAIII is a what made the GTA series the hit that it actually is today, not the first two.

 

Still, this adds more to the stupidity to them going after these things, like, do you really need this kind of backlash? pff.

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Kalashnikov1947
On 8/22/2022 at 1:31 AM, videotech_ said:

 

Goddamn... I hope the dev stuff are archived somewhere.

A company who owns a franchise taking action against the creator of that franchise... just how low could Rockstar stoop?

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Lock n' Stock
3 hours ago, D T said:

The creator of the series is basically calling them Cockstar at this point. Zee would be proud.

We all made fun of Zee back in the day, but in retrospect, he was ahead of his time.

 

On-topic, it's just the usual shakedown-tier methods of bullying from R*/TT, only now they're going after former-DMA guys instead of just fans/modders. Truly abhorrent behaviour, but they won't suffer any real repercussions for it, unfortunately.

You gotta be kidding me. Now you got R* blocking videos from the game's creator itself? Wow, that's next level stupidity. Maybe this is worse than stupid, this is f*ckery at its worst. "They're trying to block all release of anyone's work on a game" yeah, that pretty much sums up the mods taken down by Take-Two, including re3/VC.

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On 9/6/2022 at 8:01 PM, MrPringle said:

Hello guys, could anybody send me the GTA2 documentation, please? Thanks by advance! ;)

 

Hey man. I save it early. You can download from this news: https://efo-team.com/modules.php?name=News&file=view&news_id=1560 :cool:

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4 hours ago, Kesha_F1 said:

 

Hey man. I save it early. You can download from this news: https://efo-team.com/modules.php?name=News&file=view&news_id=1560 :cool:

 

Wow man, you made my day, thank you so much !! :happy:

On 9/8/2022 at 10:35 AM, Kesha_F1 said:

 

Hey man. I save it early. You can download from this news: https://efo-team.com/modules.php?name=News&file=view&news_id=1560 :cool:

Props to you and this website for sharing this, hopefully the videos resurface as well and more people mirror it. F*ck Rocksh*t.

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Adminsaredicks

Maybe little off topic, but I completely cannot avoid any T2 f*ckups anymore.

I play a lot mafia series, and they are ruining games via constant updates and sadly via 2k launcher...

Imagine play game that runs like charm, start it after 5 months to embrace buggy mess and it takes decent amount of time to fix it and that fix is bypass 2k launcher. This is crazy and im fed up with this, I tired of gaming industry because they are now ruining great experiences that you pay for.


They dont care about players anymore only their wallet.

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1 hour ago, Lock n' Stock said:

hopefully the videos resurface as well and more people mirror it

The videos had been uploaded by someone else ages ago as well I believe, that wasn't taken down:

 

 

 

On 9/10/2022 at 9:08 PM, Lock n' Stock said:

Props to you and this website for sharing this, hopefully the videos resurface as well and more people mirror it. F*ck Rocksh*t.

 

Heh. Next news with «removed videos»: https://efo-team.com/modules.php?name=News&file=view&news_id=1561 :cool:. Enjoy guys.

 

P.S. You can download and save videos for your archives.:cool:

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I take it the GTA VI section is going under full lockdown now that Take-Two are watching and holding a knife to GTAF's neck.

7 minutes ago, Ash_735 said:

I take it the GTA VI section is going under full lockdown now that Take-Two are watching and holding a knife to GTAF's neck.

Like that does anything lol. The leaked vids have gotten out and thousands have already downloaded and watched them. They can't do sh*t now. 😆

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2 minutes ago, Lock n' Stock said:

Like that does anything lol. The leaked vids have gotten out and thousands have already downloaded and watched them. They can't do sh*t now. 😆

Ain't stopping them from trying. Don't know why they're even bothering. 

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17 minutes ago, TheGodDamnMasterReturns said:

I dont know if this was mentioned but the team behind the Definitive Edition Project restorations for the PC versions of the games got DMCA'd yesterday morning on both their Discord server and website for their Grand Theft Auto IV patch package.

 

Half-baked IV Defective Edition inbound?

Shaking down people who dare to fix their dogsh*t broken ports. Utterly disgusting.

 

F*ck these cunts. Hope these leaks are just the beginning.

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3 minutes ago, Lock n' Stock said:

Shaking down people who dare to fix their dogsh*t broken ports. Utterly disgusting.

 

F*ck these cunts. Hope these leaks are just the beginning.

They just don't learn, do they? 

 

Take Two is honestly the scummiest of all the big publishers at this point. They seem to thrive on unrivalled levels of assh*leism

6 minutes ago, greggrulzok said:

Take-c*nt and Turdstar are begging for the release of V and VI source code, (and i hope IV SC end up getting leaked too)

 

I also want to see GTA IV source code leaked, all of it because they punched PC users in the face when they removed multiplayer from it. Basically stole from you. That's why I avoid Steam from now on, only on GOG where I can download the game and play it offline.

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