YimMenu was a very popular mod menu for GTA V on PC. It was free and open source, letting players do almost anything they wanted, even messing up the game for others.
Players said that using YimMenu could get around the latest security update from Rockstar Games, which added Battle Eye to GTA Online, making it tougher for most people to mod the game. Now, Take-Two Interactive has sent a DMCA notice to the company behind YimMenu, Yimmura, and asked GitHub to remove the mod menu from their site.
According to content creator MorsMutual, the DMCA notice from Take-Two to YimMenu was due to illegally reverse engineering code from the Grand Theft Auto V source code leak in 2022, as well as having other code that belongs to Take-Two Interactive and Rockstar Games.
The YimMenu website has been taken down as well. When we attempted to access it, our antivirus triggered a warning that said "threat secured." For safety reasons, we won't be linking to it.
The image above is from community member Floorball, stating that the takedown was due to the use and distribution of their code without permission.
On GitHub, a community member shared that he and his friend received a notice giving them one day to delete their YimMenu fork and asked for more information. A member of the YimMenu team responded, saying they are ending the project.
Rockstar Games has finally begun to take the security of GTA V and GTA Online seriously, almost nine years after its release. Since this mod reportedly used illegal GTAV code and could bypass Battle Eye, it was obvious that Take-Two Interactive would go after it.
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