"We are continuing work diligently to assist the Entertainment Software Rating Board (ESRB) as it investigates the circumstances surrounding the recently discovered "hot coffee" modification to the PC version of Grand Theft Auto: San Andreas. We remain confident that the ESRB assigned Grand Theft Auto: San Andreas the correct rating, "M" (Mature 17+).

So far we have learned that the "hot coffee" modification is the work of a determined group of hackers who have gone to significant trouble to alter scenes in the official version of the game. In violation of the software user agreement, hackers created the "hot coffee" modification by disassembling and then combining, recompiling and altering the game¹s source code. Since the "hot coffee" scenes cannot be created without intentional and significant technical modifications and reverse engineering of the game's source code, we are currently investigating ways that we can increase the security protection of the source code and prevent the game from being altered by the "hot coffee" modification."

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