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Tecmo Sues Game Hackers Under DMCA

Posted by samzenpus on from the no-more-cheating dept.

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."

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  1. Probably off-topic... by bonytony · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    but Tecmo Bowl was one of my favorite games.

  2. First POst by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    FP! arse!

  3. Re:I hate cheaters anyway by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    Whine Whine Whine Whine Whine Whine Whine Whine

    Not only are you a whiner, but you're stupid as well.. [some could argue that they are linked].

    "ruin their gameplay by removing textures".. Yea, I suppose graphics is all you need to make a great game..

  4. Wow, a winner is you. by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    I cannot believe I am saying this, but I think you have just demonstrated that you are in fact the stupidest person on slashdot. This is an amazing feat, I hope they give you a good prize.

    The only question I have, is how can you grasp that the limitations on what you can do with your car are only for safety of other people, but the limitations on what you can do with your game are arbitrary rules that exist for no reason other than being abused by large corporations, and yet still be stupid enough to think this is good, and that it proves your point?

    1. Re:Wow, a winner is you. by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

      parent poster is a moron indeed, for eliciting responses like this. you go ahead and mod your game, do as you wish, just dont distribute the way you fucking modded the damn game you ignorant blasted fool as you fucking well know it is probably against the dmnca. that is whats the same here. you go ahead and fucking mod your car but you drive it where it is allowed and by law thats very few places. the dmca sucks and we all know this but its there so dont be an ignorant goddamn fool in thinking this is about modding the game it is about fucking distributing the methods to do so. read the fucking article and the dmca you piece of shit. shit i cant believe theres so many respondants saying there cant be a fucking analogy between cars and xboxs when no such comparison was made.

  5. I know a guy who has an XBox in his car, so there! by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    Nyah, nyah, nyah.