Tecmo Sues Game Hackers Under DMCA 352
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."
DMCA Violations (Score:5, Funny)
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I can only hope Slashdot has the resources to protect my free speech.
Really, though...the DMCA sucks, but I can't see cheat codes being a violation while game makers keep putting them in on purpose. Aren't they the ones writing code to do different things when we enter the codes in? What next, prison time for opening an easter egg in Word?
Here's [archive.org] a link to the archived site, before it was taken down.
Wonder who made those cheats in the first place... (Score:4, Funny)
Now sue me.
Re:DMCA Violations (Score:5, Funny)
Re:Just to add to the flurry of jokes (Score:4, Funny)
Oh God, I'm being sucked into a whirlpool of recursivity!
Re:America's Army (Score:5, Funny)
Eww.
Re:Lawsuit in response to online or offline hacks? (Score:2, Funny)
Then some people came along and made texture patches for those with chipped XBoxes (so someone else did all the hard copy-protection-removal stuff) that removed said pieces of string. This makes Team Ninja look like the dirty little pervs they clearly are, and it's all rather embarrassing for them.
Re:DMCA Violations (Score:1, Funny)
Whats the point, coders and online gamers are not likely to reproduce anyways
and masturbating is more fun without the clean up afterwards
www.ninjahacker.com now offline... (Score:2, Funny)
In other news... (Score:3, Funny)
"Adding nitrous systems to the fuel injection and 'coffee can' mufflers to the exhaust systems are clearly actions that violate the DMCA," said Hiroshi Yagasaki, lead attorney for Toyota.
Taking a page from the RIAA, investigators have been hired to watch for teens entering automotive parts stores to purchase after market parts for compact vehicles. Fake auto parts websites have been set up to net offenders who would order parts online.
"These young hooligans are clearly stealing from the car companies by circumventing our state-of-the-art protection schemes, which we call 'The Hood'."
Commander Taco was not available for comment.