Don't go ripping your after-market spoilers off yours cars, stripping paint, etc. The problem here is not the law. The law is setup so that a company can producing a piece of software that they want to only be represented in it's intended way. So that it cannot be modded, and that defiantly should be allowed. If I create a piece of software, and sell it under the condition that you can't mod it, then you should not be able to mod it.

The real question here is why the hell a gameing company would go against it's customers like this. A company should never treat it's own customers as "hackers." I'll tell you one thing, if I had children, I wouldn't let them play a game that everyone talks about the 'hackers' playing.

The law is setup so that the company can go after people like this, the venue they are taking is that the 'hackers' were defacing the integrity of the game by supporting nude characters.

I don't know why they wouldn't have just e-mailed the website owners and asked them to stop supporting sexually explicit content.

Just seems like a really stuiped move on the gaming companies side. Cator to the customers, don't fight them. The customer is ALWAYS right. - Simple rules of business that I was taught when I was just a child.

Why don't they just buy the site from the people and charge for the mods? They could have their programmers develop 4 or 5 of them and sell them for $20 a piece.

Lets see CBA...

Action: Sue Customers

Cost: Potentially a bunch of customers. A potential community of gamers revolving around their game.

Benifit: ????

Action: Buy mod site(s)

Cost: $25k? (less than legal fees)

Benifit: $millions (sell the dammed mods, don't make them pricy...let the customers distribute their own custom mods, but have the game programmers work on a few really advanced ones. Help to setup/develop a community of people working toghet with these mods and stuff. Smart customers are the best type of customer. Not to mention when someone works with a single company for a long time and enjoys their time working with that company (be it a gaming site) they tend to be eager to try new products/services provided by that company

Simple marketing stuff...Maybe they should fire a few of those hot shot lawyers and hire a marketing analysist (or two).

Just my $.02

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