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The legal battle over Lara Croft’s nude patch

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When your marketing strictly relies on your protagonist's exaggerated physical assets, it's bold to get angry when the internet inevitably acts like the internet. Eidos threatened massive legal action in the late 90s to shut down websites sharing a fan-made 'Nude Raider' mod. They spent millions in lawyer fees trying to maintain the completely arbitrary purity of a polygon model holding dual pistols.

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