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It seems to have created a full nude model of Page's character, but the company made it impossible to view it from the most compromising angles within the course of normal gameplay. In this case, Quantic Dream is in a sort of gray area. In the movies, these clauses are usually pretty easy to enforce: either the studio released nude footage or they didn't. What about Sony and Quantic Dream's possible legal liability in creating the nude 3D model that actually shows up in these shots? Clauses disallowing nudity are pretty common in acting contracts, and they could well be in play for Page's work in Beyond. In any case, there's a bit of a Streisand effect already at work here, with posters at reddit and elsewhere working to call wider attention to the images now that Sony is attempting to block them. This could mean that the 'takedown' effort, such as it is, has been more of a light, scattershot attempt rather than a sweeping effort so far. That's out of dozens that have written about the issue. It's worth pointing out that only two sites so far have publicized Sony's request to take down links to the images being discussed here. I'd certainly be interested to see the requests they're sending out, as that may give a clearer picture of what their thinking is.' Of course, Sony has a slightly more unusual relationship with the game press, and that relationship may be leveraged to have many of these pictures removed. 'Consider how much the press has published about far more sensitive topics dug up by more dubious means. 'I would think first amendment protection in the US would allow them to be published,' Editor in Chief of the Law of the Game blogger Mark Methenitis told Ars. Now that the images are out there on the Internet, there's probably little Sony can do to legally prevent people from using and discussing them, at least under US law. Sony and Quantic Dream have not responded to requests for comment on this story.

But it's not clear what, if any, such agreements the leaker may have been party to. Any legal issues with the shots would likely hinge on the language included in any contract the leaker may or may not have signed to get access to the debug hardware and a 'debug' copy of the game.

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The console and game software likely didn't have to be modified in any way to access the displayed 'QA Mode' that made the new camera angles possible. The images appear to come from a 'debug' PS3, a special console designed for developers and press to run and potentially modify non-finalized code. To start, talk of a 'hacked' console being used to generate the images seems inaccurate. These Sony reps' casual citations of 'legal' and 'illegal' got us wondering whether there was actually any law or contract broken here, either on the part of the source that leaked the images, the press that reported on it, or even the companies that made the game.įirst up, there's the still-anonymous person who leaked the images. I would really appreciate if you can take the story down to end the cycle of discussion around this.' 'The images are from an illegally hacked console and are very damaging for Ellen Page,' the rep reportedly told Gaming Blend. Culture site Gaming Blend said it received a similar request from Sony Computer Entertainment America, which went so far as to request that the original story be taken down entirely. This action came despite the fact that Eskimo Press merely linked to the images on another server rather than hosting them itself. Nordic entertainment site Eskimo Press was the first to report that Sony Computer Entertainment Europe asked them to take down the leaked images, citing unspecified 'legal reasons' for the request.

Scandals revolving around supposedly inaccessible adult content in games aren't completely unheard of, though remember GTA: San Andreas' Hot Coffee?īut when reports surfaced earlier this week that Sony was making vague legal threats in an effort to remove those images from the Internet, our news ears started perking up a little. This kind of embarrassing, tawdry celebrity gossip is pretty common in the entertainment industry, even if it's relatively rare in video games particularly. When nude images of Jodie Holmes, actress Ellen Page's character from Beyond: Two Souls, began appearing on the Internet a few weeks ago (courtesy of a repositioned shower-scene camera running on debug hardware) we thought the story was a little too tabloidy to cover. Enlarge / A censored version of one of the leaked images, which shows a pre-existing shower scene from a much more revealing angle.

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