One of the reasons that today’s copyright is such a bad fit for the modern digital world is that its roots lie deep in 18th-century law and analogue objects like books. This fact has created a kind…
This doesn’t seem like it’s related to cheats included in the game itself. I’m sure the question of whether or not you can publish the Konami Code would be an interesting one, but the focus here is closer to modding.
Either way, patents probably wouldn’t be the way to go: you can’t patent anything that’s public knowledge and when you patent it it’s both publicly available and only protected for a limited amount of time. Anti-cheat measures would fall under trade secrets, for those reasons.
This doesn’t seem like it’s related to cheats included in the game itself. I’m sure the question of whether or not you can publish the Konami Code would be an interesting one, but the focus here is closer to modding.
Either way, patents probably wouldn’t be the way to go: you can’t patent anything that’s public knowledge and when you patent it it’s both publicly available and only protected for a limited amount of time. Anti-cheat measures would fall under trade secrets, for those reasons.