Otaku closed down

[Explorator]

Took Sulake a long time. I know people enjoy retros but i think it's better for habbo now that they are starting to bring a stop to them a little more.

[e5]

Never even heard of Otaku so no loss for me. 500k is a bit much though.

[Kyle]

Surprised they allowed him to get away with it for so long tbh. Otakustudios has been at the forefront of the retro community for many years so it's good that they're making an example of him but frankly I doubt it's going to stop others developing similar but not-for-profit products and continuing to draw users away from the original hotel.

[Plucked]

an article I read that was posted on TH said that they came to his house

His house was raided, his car and other assets seized - he's now facing charges of upto $500,000. Aaron was/is an old friend of mine, we go years back, it's his own fault - at any point in time he could've stopped developing Phoenix but he chose not to. Through 2008 and 2009, he earned £19,000 from sales of his emulator, which is absolutely insane.

He had it coming. We all know this.

R.I.P Sojobo.

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Felt sorry for him at first, but if he really was sent that many notices/warnings to take it down, then it's his own fault for not using that chance to just stop what he was doing.

He's been receiving letters since 2007, and now they've caught up. He moved from Scotland to Bulgaria early last year to 'escape' it all - it was a good run while it lasted.

[A]

habbo are now tighting on retros and battling against them, imo if they can take Otaku down, then it won't be long till everyone else is gone.

[Daltron]

500k is like nothing for a law suit that size, he got lucky. I'm glad to see Sulake finally taking action.

[Kardan]

Good job. Similar things happened with Jagex and botting programs. They sued a pair of brothers that sold bot programs, got their $800,000 house in America...

[Zak]

500k is like nothing for a law suit that size, he got lucky. I'm glad to see Sulake finally taking action.

Completely agree

Took Sulake a long time. I know people enjoy retros but i think it's better for habbo now that they are starting to bring a stop to them a little more.

Court proceedings always take ages

[GoldenMerc]

Think I only used the site once, bit of a shame mind

[Agnostic Bear]

Welp, that sucks, he's an irl friend and a bro. Doesn't deserve this crap. Big ol' company ******** on the little guy. Maybe an open source clean-room emulator would work.

Maybe I'll have to have a look into that.