GristyMcFisty used our news submit to tell us about some more legal news, this time concernig the hacking of Xbox games. Acccording to the Register an entire community of about 100 anonymous visitors and a couple of men that run the site, helped among other things to create skins for some games distributed by Temco, but the original authors call the modifications reverse engineering of their software and they are not going to tolerate it.
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According to the complaint, Greiling and Glynn were webmasters of ninjahacker.net, an online forum dedicated to creating custom content and modifications for certain video games. Also included in the suit, filed January 21st in Illinois, are up to 100 anonymous users of the site, whose identities the company vowed to unmask."[W]e believe it is our duty to uphold the integrity of our work," said John Inada, general manager for Tecmo, in a statement. "Hacking of this kind will not be tolerated and we intend to take all necessary measures to protect our intellectual property."The lawsuit claims the ninjahacker.net users decompiled the code to several Tecmo titles, including Ninja Gaiden, Dead or Alive 3, and Dead or Alive Xtreme Beach Volleyball, and figured out how to create their own "skins" that change the appearance of game characters. |
You can read the story in it's entirety over at the Register. This activity, although it may be illegal, would seem to generate more interest in a game giving it further functionality. Of course, each side has a viewpoint. What do you think? Is this something that should be taken to court, or maybe Temco should just turn a blind eye to it.
Source: The Register
