TECMO seems to think that their characters wholesome image are being corrupted. The Ninjahacker site hosted files that allowed for the modification of "packages" that contained graphic files, and some teen pervs made some nude skins with it. The majority of the skins were tastefull and some even surpassed the quality of the ones created by TECMO, only a small amount were nudes but those always seem to get the most attention. They claim that the package files that were used to package said graphic files were protected and considered "source code" thereby the protection had to be circumvented in order to be modified. I thought a copyright didn't give you a right to keep that IP from being used by fair use? Which obviously said protection is doing?
No, the lawsuit involves the package files that TECMO uses to "package" the graphics in. They are claiming it is "source code". he also claim that they circumvented the protection scheme built into the disc to access the graphic files. Pretty much it end up being that they are getting sued for making skins that are blemishing the "wholsemness" of the DOA characters... These are the same people that are advertising their games by using their characters to attempt to induce fits of horniness in every potential customer that sees it. They also claim they lost untold amount of money because of it.. It's all B.S since all of those hacks "require" the use of the original game, not used to circumvent it. So they may have actually sold some more games because of it rather than lost.
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Noticed that thay have a petition up at that site as well at http://www.petitiononline.com/tecmomod/petition.ht ml
TECMO seems to think that their characters wholesome image are being corrupted. The Ninjahacker site hosted files that allowed for the modification of "packages" that contained graphic files, and some teen pervs made some nude skins with it. The majority of the skins were tastefull and some even surpassed the quality of the ones created by TECMO, only a small amount were nudes but those always seem to get the most attention. They claim that the package files that were used to package said graphic files were protected and considered "source code" thereby the protection had to be circumvented in order to be modified. I thought a copyright didn't give you a right to keep that IP from being used by fair use? Which obviously said protection is doing?
No, the lawsuit involves the package files that TECMO uses to "package" the graphics in. They are claiming it is "source code". he also claim that they circumvented the protection scheme built into the disc to access the graphic files. Pretty much it end up being that they are getting sued for making skins that are blemishing the "wholsemness" of the DOA characters... These are the same people that are advertising their games by using their characters to attempt to induce fits of horniness in every potential customer that sees it. They also claim they lost untold amount of money because of it.. It's all B.S since all of those hacks "require" the use of the original game, not used to circumvent it. So they may have actually sold some more games because of it rather than lost.