suit alleged that were it not for his obsessive playing of Grand Theft Auto: Vice City, the murders would not have taken place. Named in the suit were Cody Posey, Rockstar Games, Take-Two Interactive, and Sony. The suit asked for US$600 million in damages. During the criminal trial, Posey's defence team argued he was abused by his father, and tormented by his stepmother. Posey was also taking Zoloft at the time of the killings. The lawsuit was dismissed in December 2007. Modding and fan recreations Modding of Grand Theft Auto content, either within Grand Theft Auto games or recreated via other software, had generally performed by the player community since around the early 2000s, with one of the first major conversions being the recreation of Grand Theft Auto III Liberty City within the Vice City engine. Around 2017, Take Two began taking action against these mods, specifically issuing a cease & desist letter to the makers of OpenIV that allowed modders to alter content from Grand Theft Auto IV and V. Take-Two said at the time that its issue was not directly with the mod itself, but that it "enables recent malicious mods that allow harassment of players and interfere with the GTA Online experience for everybody", and that it was working with the OpenIV to find a amenable solution. OpenIV developers opted to remove the mod from circulation after several rounds of discussion with Take-Two. Take-Two issued a statement to clarify that it would not take action against single-player mods; this statement was updated in 2019 to exclude modders from including other Take-Two intellectual property or from "making new games, stories, missions, or maps". The Grand Theft Auto modding community worked under this response to continue to build out mods and other content within the bounds set by Take-Two. In February 2021, Take-Two issued a Digital Millennium Copyright Act (DMCA) takedown of two projects hosted at GitHub that had reverse-engineered the game engines for Grand Theft Auto III and Vice City, asserting that such reversing engineering was disallowed by the game's EULA. On 10 June 2021, the project developers filed a counter-notice; per DMCA rules regarding disputes, the source code was restored after two weeks. Take-Two CEO Strauss Zelnick stated the company has a "pretty flexible" view on user mods, asserting that "if the economy is threatened, or if there's bad behaviour, and we know how to define that,