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Australian Federal Court Grants Publisher of GTA V Game Right To Search Homes of Five People Accused of Making Cheat Software (bbc.com)

Posted by msmash on from the how-about-that dept.

The publisher of video game Grand Theft Auto V has been granted the right to search the homes of five people accused of making cheat software. From a report: The court order allowed Rockstar Games and its parent company, Take-Two Interactive, to search two properties in Melbourne, Australia, for evidence related to a cheat known as Infamous. The Australian federal court has also frozen the assets of the five, who have not yet filed a defence. The cheat went offline six months ago. It allowed players who paid about $40 to manipulate the gaming environment, generate virtual currency and use a "god mode" feature that makes players invincible.

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  1. Raiding cheaters seems excessive by Hentes · · Score: 4, Insightful

    Was patching the game not an option?

    1. Re:Raiding cheaters seems excessive by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 1, Insightful

      I was stumbling over the irony of a game manufacturer who promotes criminality through their game decrying criminality of people while playing their game. It seems to me that they are only emulating the skills that the learned playing the game in the first place

  2. private company search? by Moblaster · · Score: 4, Insightful

    Hold on -- a private company can be given the right to search somebody's home in Australia? They have literally been given the legal right bust into multiple private citizens' homes? WTF? Is this life imitating art or some kind of crazy distopian future?

  3. Re:Surreal... by blahplusplus · · Score: 1, Insightful

    Buy an offline game and do what you want. When someone plays online and cheats, they are ruining the game for other people.

    There is none you idiot, the whole point is in an internet enabled society no kid is going to deny themselves access to the latest expensive AAA game. The whole thing for the AAA industry was to literally steal the game and chain it to servers in their offices. That was their whole plan since the 90's. Consumers have no choice they'd have to be physically close the companies to effect their bad behavior at all. It's why we have microtransactions and lootboxes.