Legality of modding about to be tested in court

[JRPGfan]

SvennoJ said:

JRPGfan said:

The idea that this can even go so far, to reach a court is just silly.
Its something that should be self evident that its legal.

 

If they change this... what next?

Your not allowed to buy a physical copy of a book, and write it in? even if you own it? No more school books, with highlights used in them, you might get sued.

 

A game you own, changeing apparences in game for you, is akin to writeing something in a book you bought imo.

If modding becomes ilegal, then books should be next.

It comes more down to, are you allowed to alter a book and publish the alterations. Nobody cares what you do for personal use, (and schools have exemptions by fair use) distributing and going online with it is the problem. Ofcourse just as emulators, mods by themselves shouldn't be illegal. What you do with it (online cheating) is the problem. Dunno if the law can make that distinction. There is no law against cheating. Online game fraud?

The law is still far behind when it comes to software. Another current problem is whether lootboxes should be considered gambling and be regulated by gambling laws. http://www.eurogamer.net/articles/2017-10-11-are-loot-boxes-gambling

So this is about people makeing mods, and selling them for profit?

Not about if its legal to make mods in the first place?

 

Its weird the OP link redirects to a page about people useing Aim bots (cheats) in games, and not actually modding of games.

Anyways yeah I think its fine to stop people cheating in games.

However I dont think makeing mods to games should be illegal.

 

"However, neither defendant is being sued for the actual act of cheating; rather, Epic is suing both parties for alleged copyright infringement, arguing that the defendants' cheating is "infringing Epic's copyrights by injecting unauthorized computer code into the copyright protected code"."

^ hope this fails in court.

However I hope they still get banned, and ban anyone that is useing cheats.