Discontinuation of OpenIV

On June 15th, 2017, the popular modding tool for Grand Theft Auto V, OpenIV, was discontinued after Take Two Interactive (Rockstar Games' publishing company that's not directly related to GTA) sent a C&D letter to the developer of the tool, Good-NTS, forcing him to discontinue the project, citing that the tool "allows third parties to defeat security features of its software and modify that software in violation of Take-Two's rights", when in reality, it was only made to modify the game's single-player components and not the Grand Theft Auto Online component, thus allowing the single-player portion of the game to be modded under "Fair Use".

Aftermath
The discontinuation of OpenIV, alongside the "Liberty City Mod" for GTA V that was going to come with Version 2.3.0, sent massive shockwaves among not only the modding communities of the game, but also the Machinima production communities in which this tool was essential in Machinima making, resulting in death threats being sent to Take Two's staff, the game's Steam page being flooded with negative reviews, a petition being organized that aimed to save the mod and overturn Take Two's decision, as well as several YouTube rants and protests being made against Take Two in form of mods, Machinima videos, etc.

Rockstar Games, although not related to Take Two's actions, apologized to fans and later re-released OpenIV.

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