Take-Two Makes Mysterious Undisclosed Settlement With GTA3 & Vice City Hackers
Today we have some mysterious news about a lawsuit filed over two older Grand Theft Auto games.
videotech_ on Twitter has shared the details of the story:
“NEW: In 2021, Take-Two Interactive initiated legal action against a team of mod developers who had developed a project that involved reverse engineering Grand Theft Auto: Vice City and Grand Theft Auto III, shortly after the developers launched a counter strike on GitHub.
As of today, both sides have reached an agreement to settle the case out of court, and the case will not be proceeding later this year. However, the terms of this agreement are not public and the mod developers are subject to pay Take-Two legal fees and other expenses.
Unfortunately, Take-Two still wants to hunt down the “remaining unnamed defendants”, so it’s not fully closed.
Just a small correction, the modding team are not subject to pay Take Two legal fees and expenses. I had misread this quote, but unfortunately the team has to pay for their own legal fees and expenses, leaving them in a horrible financial position.”
videotech_ also linked to the PDF of the settlement announcement, which you can read here. The settlement was allowed to name the defendants, namely, Angelo Papenhoff, Theo Morra, Eray Orçunus, and Adrian Graber.
These four are not the only defendants, so we may get more details about this case in the future. It is possible that the four were not involved in the actual programming of the reverse engineering project. They may have been added to the suit as people who contributed in other ways, such as sharing resources and advice to the actual developers to use in their project.
In a follow up, videotech_ also shared their opinion about this lawsuit:
“They didn’t do anything to harm
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