Atlus sues makers behind private server of defunct Shin Megami Tensei MMO

Japanese publisher Atlus has filed a lawsuit against the two people responsible for the maintenance of a private server for Shin Megami Tensei Imagine, also known as SMT Imagine, an online MMO that the company closed down several years ago.

The lawsuit, which was filed in December, accuses two defendants of "blatant violation of US copyright law" after deciding to "resurrect" the title with their ReImagine project, which launched in December 2020.

It states that the pair did this by creating an "exact copy" of the original website for SMT Imagine, which directed users to download "an exact or nearly exact copy" of the game.

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