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[The Faceless Master]

Leaving for another day the question of whether consumers have the right to modify video-game software they've legally purchased, a federal judge last week dismissed a lawsuit by California game maker Tecmo against the proprietors and users of a game-hacking website, after the company quietly settled with the two main defendants.

Tecmo filed the lawsuit in January in a crackdown on NinjaHacker.net, an internet forum where fans created and shared custom content for several Tecmo Xbox titles, including Ninja Gaiden, Dead or Alive 3 and Dead or Alive Xtreme Beach Volleyball. Users had reverse-engineered the games to figure out how to create custom "skins" that changed the appearance of onscreen characters, in some cases rendering the already scantily clad women of Dead or Alive Xtreme Beach Volleyball completely nude.

http://www.wired.com/news/games/0,2101,67554,00.html?tw=rss.TOP

 

[Wario64]

*masturbates furiously

Itagaki am cry

 

[Ecrofirt]

The lawsuit also targeted up to 100 anonymous users of the website, whose identities Tecmo vowed to unmask earlier this year. Those users were the focus of the settlement talks, said Jason Schultz, an attorney with the nonprofit Electronic Frontier Foundation, which had been tracking the case. According to Schultz, Tecmo insisted that Greiling and Glynn hand over NinjaHacker's user database to the company as part of any deal. "Tecmo wanted to get the personal identifying information of people who were uploading and downloading skins," said Schultz. "I don't know if that was in the final settlement.

Jeez.

 

[karasu]

That sucks.

 

[Hollywood]

Since when did people have to put their names on a forum registration? That's stupid. Think of the ramifications of this, anyone on a forum could eventually be sued. Tecmo doing this is an invasion of privacy and illegal. How ridiculous could this shit get?

 

[BuddyC]

Man, it's a good thing we're not on Tecmo's bad side. Oh, wait.

 

[Suikoguy]

Wow, targeting the average enduser for THAT!?

Tecmo Respect -1,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000


Oh, and by light of this I will not be buying any tecmo products, PERIOD.
this is fucking rediculous

 

[Stinkles]

*masturbates furiously

Itagaki am cry

Most correct post ever. Sorry, evar.

 

[ToxicAdam]

I am boycotting any Tecmo purchases too!!


(after I buy thier compilation and DOA4 and any other awesome games they produce)

 

[The Take Out Bandit]

Tecmo got served!

Here's some accidental NamcOwnage courtesy of an error on Gametrailers.com as well. :lol

Does this mean DOA is suddenly a better game, or is it still a poor imitation or a poor imitation?

 

[CO_Andy]

How dare these villains mistreat Itagaki's daughters!

 

[RiZ III]

Id hit all of Itagakis daughters and then get my ass kicked as tried to kill them.

 

[Suikoguy]

How dare these villains mistreat Itagaki's daughters!

I must admit that made me chuckle :lol