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Tecmo Wins Naked Kasumi Case

Posted by Zonk on from the such-an-odd-name-for-a-case dept.

An anonymous reader writes "The Japanese supreme court has upheld a ruling that software company West Side's 'naked Kasumi hack' for the PS2 version of Dead Or Alive 2 violates Tecmo's copyrights. West Side has been ordered to pay around 2 million yen in damages."

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  1. "Dignity?" by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 5, Insightful

    Don't know the accuracy of the write up, but you have got to love the line "Tecmo finally has the promise of reparations for what it has always viewed as a violation of Kasumi's dignity" if it is true.

    Come on Tecmo, the game is built around the fan service and you know it. Some people might differ, but I say the main reason that the game sells is the bouncing breasts and skimpy clothing. Without the fan service the game itself probably wouldn't have lasted as long as it has.

    So are you going to go after fan artists now? Start making arrests of groups at Doujin conventions? There are also games involving your characters in sexual situations. Doesn't sound like you are doing much to protect the "dignity" of your IP, can't someone think of poor Itagaki's children! All he did was give them big bouncing boobies and put them in semi-revealing costumes, but he is a decent man protective of his daughters and would never have them appear in the nude!

    Anyway, here is hoping people make some great hacks for DOA: UE or what ever it is called. Tecmo's legal threats *really* put a stop to all those DOA:BV hacks. Maybe they should just give up and do the porn game that they really want to make, then people wouldn't feel the need to do these hacks.

  2. Re:I think there is more to it... by 10101001+10101001 · · Score: 2, Insightful

    Um, with that logic every game would have to be rated AO because there's nothing stopping someone from drawing pictures of naked people and gluing it to the game's dvd/gamecube disc sleeve. Look at "Animal Crossing" or any other game where you enter in input (though "Animal Crossing" happens to try to prevent you from using various "naughty" words like bitch). All Tecmo would have to do is not pro-advertise the feature and write how they were upset/offended/concerned with what the other company did. The whole lawsuit is just overblown bullshit. Or it was just a way to make money while publicizing the hack to get more people to buy the game..

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  3. Weird by bobstevens_took_my_n · · Score: 5, Insightful
    This was just a Gameshark mod of the PS2 version of DOA2 that has been around *forever*. Some models were still on the disk from being used in cinematics (including a non-explicitly nude Kasumi for the intro cinematic). Some people found a Gameshark code that would let you use some of these models in-game.

    I guess this Japanese company just repackaged the game with the Gameshark hack builtin and started selling it. Clearly illegal by any stretch of anyone's imagination, and not too bright on the part of consumers either, when they could have gotten the same thing by buying an official copy and a Gameshark.