Take-Two Interactive Dismisses Lawsuit (opens in new tab) Grand Theft Auto 3 and GTA: A lawsuit has been filed against Grand Theft Auto modders in 2021 over a reverse-engineered port of Vice City.
The projects known as re3 and reVC were pre-Definitive Edition in nature. (opens in new tab) Aimed at making older GTA games run better on modern hardware, it includes some bug fixes and new features like widescreen support. Take-Two originally had him removed from Github using a DMCA takedown notice, but it was restored after a counterclaim by the developer. Take-Two responded to this ruse in a copyright infringement lawsuit, in which mod makers accused Grand Theft Auto 3 and Vice City of “illegal copying of infringing source code, They tried to modify it and distribute it to the public.”
The lawsuit focused not only on the allegedly infringing nature of the mods themselves, but also on the actions taken by the named modders to evade DMCA takedown requests. She then filed a sworn counter-notice on her GitHub claiming that Graber’s deletion of the repository was erroneous or unjustified. He submits the contents of the re3 GitHub repository to GitHub. “
After that, not much happened, according to torrent freak (opens in new tab), through December 2022, the parties have requested waivers from release of materials in the discovery portion of the lawsuit because they likely contain confidential or proprietary information. News of a possible settlement soon followed, and on April 3, after several delays, dismiss the lawsuit (opens in new tab) Submitted.
The case was dismissed with prejudice, which meant it could not be refiled, but was dismissed only against four defendants: The case also named 10 John Does as a defendant, stating that “the remaining defendants have been dismissed.” No,” he specifically said. By this provision. ”
and update (opens in new tab) However, Take-Two has also dismissed lawsuits against these defendants, meaning it can refile lawsuits against them without prejudice. One of John Doe’s defendants is noted as “Ash R. and Ash_735”. twitter (opens in new tab): They retweeted their settlement application earlier this week.
Take-Two didn’t say if it had reached a settlement with the mod makers or why it was dismissing the lawsuit, but despite its very rough form, the officially updated versions of GTA3 and Vice City is likely to be released. (opens in new tab) They were there when they launched—just made it redundant. We reached out to Take-Two for comment. I will update if I get a reply.