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Tecmo Sues Game Hackers Under DMCA
blueZhift writes "This Reuters report on CNet states that Tecmo has filed a federal lawsuit in Chicago under the Digital Millennium Copyright Act accusing the site owners and perhaps some users of game hacking site www.ninjahacker.net (now offline) of knowingly infringing on their game software. This should be another interesting test of the DMCA and just how far it can be pushed to restrict what end users can do with/to their software purchases. This might ultimately affect the legality of cheat devices like the Game Shark and even the mere sharing of cheats or exploits."
Oh. I didn't realize that those games I'd been playing for years are for uneducated people. Does this mean I should go find some GPL'd software and start tinkering when all I want to do is play a video game?
I don't usually flame on Slashdot, but you come off as a complete prick. Normal people do not care about tinkering with a game, they'd rather spend their time playing it. If you think that makes them "uneducated" or dumb, then you're a bigger jackass than I thought.
Right, if you want to play a FPS, writing it is the way to go!
You don't want to be like those uneducated people who buy already grown food, or already assembled cars do you ?
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Yes, and if I read books instead of writing them, I'm part of the ignorant masses, right? Same goes for listening to music instead of playing it.
My point is, in any given field, there's going to be a lot more consumers than creators. This is natural, and it's no reason to take on such an elitist air. Just because you would rather mess around with a game instead of playing it doesn't mean you're above people whose talents/interests lie in other areas.
From a forums post I read by the owner of ninjahacker.net apparently someone posted a modified game file and not just a PPF file on there without him knowing and it was found by Tecmo and now they are suing him
Have you metaroderated recently?