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Koei Tecmo Cracks Down on Sale of Illegal Videos Made With Modded Dead or Alive Xtreme: Venus Vacation

Dead or Alive Xtreme: Venus Vacation opened many modding opportunities, but Koei Tecmo isn't too happy about certain uses of its IP.

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Today the company published a press release announcing that it has taken notice of the sale of DVD made by shooting videos of Dead or Alive Games. As such, it has started legal action against an individual via the Kanagawa Prefectural Police department.

Specifically, the suspect has recorded footage from Dead or Alive Xtreme: Venus Vacation with modifications like the removal of the (already scarce) clothes, then they sold the footage on DVD on auction sites.

The case has been reported to the Kanagawa Prefectural Police as it was determined that, even if the content is modified, this is copyright infringement.

In addition, since Koei Tecmo judges this as a particularly malicious act, the company is also filing a civil lawsuit for damages on top of the criminal case.

Koei Tecmo argues that the reproductions (including modifications), distribution, and sale of its copyrighted work is prohibited and illegal.

The company is determined to take legal action against such acts. In the future, Koei Tecmo pledges to rigorously respond to copyright infringement while providing games that can satisfy its users at the same time.

 

[Northeastmonk]

Hahaha

modding the game to show nudity and then selling the footage on a DvD. Who buys that?

 

[SLoWMoTIoN]

How do they feel about all the low quality pornhub videos that use DoA5 models though?

 

[HarryKS]

Selling? And people were buying?

It's free man, free.

 

[Tmack]

Reminds me of a quite popular youtube channel that had loads of resident evil playtroughts with mods in wich Jill have a tinnier outfit and bigger boobs everytime you check a different video. lol

 

[kretos]

 

[YukiOnna]

There are easier ways to find these goods online.

 

[Barakov]

I remember how nervous they were when they released DOA5 on PC. The had to know this was going to happen and then act super surprised and super offended every time it does.

I'm surprised the guy actually went out of his way to make a DVD and then try to sell it. I'm pretty sure it's common knowledge how weird they're about this. People need to get paid, I guess.

 

[A.Romero]

What sites, though? Just to make sure I can avoid them.

 

[BaneIsPain]

I need to conduct investigation to give warning to others.
Show me the direction fellas.

 

[Marcus Aurelius]

What sites, though? Just to make sure I can avoid them.

 

[ManaByte]

Thanks for the reminder that we were denied a US release of this.

 

[Drew1440]

I wonder what Tomonobu Itagaki thinks of all this?

 

[Chastten]

Thanks for the reminder that we were denied a US release of this.

Download a free VPN, set it to some Asian country, add it to your Steam library and uninstall the VPN. Once it's in your Library you can just keep playing it and updates and stuff will keep working.

It's a terrible game without any gameplay though. And if you 'play' it legally all the outfits that are worth grinding for, are behind the paid gacha walls. None of the good stuff is tied to the free gacha.

 

[Kuranghi]

Yeah, I need to get these sites into my blacklist asap.

QUICKLY I NEED THEM NOW.

 

[Holammer]

Just a matter of time until companies start taking actions against SFM/Blender porn using their characters.
... but on the other hand, nobody would care about Overwatch if not for all the porn.