gta5 TakeTwo Declares GTA V Modding Illegal & Bans OpenIV

[EmpireKicking 155]

I went to open up OpenIV and I saw this. This is the link that it took me to. Has anybody else gotten this? Really hoping it's some sort of prank or something, because I'm going to be devastated if LSPDFR comes to a halt because of this. 

 

http://gtaforums.com/topic/889348-openiv/

 

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We feared that this day would come... And now it'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 "gray zone" -- a battlefield between lawyers and PR...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...
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On June 5th, 2017, we had received an official Cease-and-Desist letter.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.

 

Going to court will take at least few months of our time and huge amount of efforts, and, at best, we'll get absolutely nothing.Spending time just to restore status quo is really unproductive, and all the money in the world can't compensate the loss of time.

 

So, we decided to agree with their claims and we're stopping distribution of OpenIV.

 

It was a hard decision, but when any modding activity has been declared illegal, we can't see any possibilities to continue this process,unless top management of Take-Two company makes an official statement about modding, which can be used in court.

 

With many thanks for all modding community for all your fantastic creations,OpenIV team. 

 

So long, and thanks for all the fish.

 

[TheWhiteNinja97 4]

I don't think GTA V Had mods? atleast the console version.

[EmpireKicking 155]

28 minutes ago, TheWhiteNinja97 said:

I don't think GTA V Had mods? atleast the console version.

 

Mods been around for tem years for all GTA PC series. It's not new. Even when GTA5 came out on PC they started getting the mods made and supported.

 

BaysideGAmers!!!! this is what we also do. WE support mods for the game based we have files for members to upload and to share for others to download 

[Ash 26]

It's a shame because modding various things into GTA V always made it a lot more fun especially the police mods