Использование авторского права для борьбы с читерами ставит под угрозу моды и фанатские проекты

The issue isn’t stopping cheaters, the issue is using copyright to do it. As a gamer myself, I wouldn’t believe that my fellow gamers have such high regard for nuance…. For most of them the ends justify the means. Just look at Nintendo’s current policy of permabanning Switches from getting system updates for cheating users. Doing it this way opens up to abuse to stop legitimate actions that don’t have anything to do with cheating. Very true. As the article claims, MODs are at risk here, and we’ve already seen crackdowns on things like fan-translations, fan games, and even fair use rights. (YouTube review or commentary videos for example.) The industry is desperate to stomp out any unofficial content no-matter what it is or where it came from. "Pay and look, but don’t expand on, fantasize, or communicate about it." – AAA Game Industry Doing it this way opens up to abuse to stop legitimate actions that don’t have anything to do with cheating. I’ll address the elephant in the room: WHY can one player’s actions turn the entire multiplayer experience on it’s head? WHY are the player’s actions so heavily trusted by the other clients? This is basic state syncing for crying out loud. What’s the point of all of the other systems running an instance of the game world if they cannot use that information to override and prohibit a bad actors influence by majority rule? The PC games of yore didn’t have this issue. This issue is a recent one. It’s almost as if the programmers promising these "unparalleled multiplayer experiences" have intentionally allowed the bad actors to run rampant unopposed. Meanwhile any attempt to correct their "mistakes", such as via MODing the game / replacing it’s engine outright / replacing the matchmaking server / social engineering / etc., are violently (via the legal system) opposed at every turn. It seems like they intentionally want this crap to happen, and given it’s allowing them to expand the abuse of copyright in the courts, I can see a good reason why they’d want to. This crap needs to stop, and gamers should be demanding real technical fixes for cheaters not a game of legal whackamole. Of course, that won’t happen, but it should.