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FBI raid on a private l2 server
For anyone that doesn't believe this it has been comfirmed, check the link.
http://www.ncsoft.com/eng/NCPress/View.asp?hSeq=1
Please listen to me never play a private server for anything I learned the hard way.
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does this mean trouble is on the horizons for SWGEMU?
http://www.speedtest.net/result/7300033012
software, thus eating up bandwidth from people that have no intention
of paying to play L2.
I just thought I would add this. (post 100 btw, good job mmorpg on 1mil posts)
Thats what you call awesome. Take Ragnarok Online for example. It has 20k paying subscribers in the US, and over a hundred thousand on private servers. Now imagine if those players played ligetally. Then the game company would have more money, and can do things like offer more content faster.
Its just as they said in the report. Private servers cost the game publishers money by stealing thier intellectual property without giving any sort of repayment, which ultimately costs the legit players.
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Do I ever sleep?
copyright laws under the Bern Convention? Some European countries have
even harsher copyright laws for books don't they. Something like
the life of the author plus 100 years instead of 50 or whatever it is
in the U.S.
Is Sweden different? Not stating these things as fact, it was just what I understood to be true.
It's illegal. Always has been. People engaged in running these things are inviting a whole heap of trouble.
It's illegal. Always has been. People engaged in running these things are inviting a whole heap of trouble.
Yep SOE will sick the FBI on them as soon as they release something, maybe before that.
I sleep with a pillow under my gun.
play on free(pirate) servers. Maybe because their game isn't worth the
money needed to play on their own server. Maybe gamers think they are
greedy. Yes, it is a crime, but no crimes would be commited if there'd
be no need for them. A monthly fee game should have EXTREMELY good
customer support and a hell a lot of updates to keep old players in. If
they don't provide enough content to make players feel they pay for
something... this is what happens. Would anyone of you buy a toaster
that would require a quarter every time you used it if there'd be no
extra benefits to the ones you don't pay the quarter for.
Go FBI! Go NCsoft! GO PIRATES! YARRR!
- Tassu
"Lick My Weapons"
Yes, but it is not done with the permission of the game company. What's more, private servers have different rule sets than the main game so it really is a detour to what is offered on the main game.
Listen, you can't just read a book, dislike the ending, and decide to rewrite the ending and then post the book for download for anyone who wants to give a donation. You can't take a song, decide that it needs more musical material in the higher end, mix it in and then post it for download for donation.
You can't take someone else's game, decide you don't like parts of it, change it, and then offer it for play for donations.
Property is property, real, intellectual or otherwise. If people don't like the game then don't play. But unless you have a large financial stake in the making of the game, you don't have say as to whether or not that game can be altered and offered as an alternative to the general populace.
There is a reason we have laws.
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good to see our tax dollars being used to keep us safe, oh wait .... WTF ..... FBI shutting down a L2 private server.... meanwhile real criminals are ROFLing
LoLz noobcake FBI Learn2CatchMurderersInsteadofNerdsRunningPrivateServers
Sad, truly sad. Especially cuz L2 is a horrible game.
oh darn, someone broke the law and got busted doing it, the shame...
if youre going to emulate a server in violation of the ToS why not make it a game that doesn't suck
It's a different division of the FBI.
And regardless of whether one likes the game, hates the game, thinks that the FBI should only be tracking down Aliens, copyright infringement is against the law.
Just because it's "hard" to catch every person doesn't mean that you don't make the effort.
Apathy ftl
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It's all about the principles. If NCsoft didn't take action it's like giving their OK sign for people to steal their software and customers. You claimed L2 is a horrible game yet there are over 55,000+ people playing it (according to L2extreme), that means these 55,000 people doesn't think it's a horrible game. Imagine if 55,000 people aren't paying $15 a month to NCsoft that means NCsoft would theoretically be losing about $825,000 a month. If such huge sum of money is involved you can be sure the FBI will be involved.
Yes, but it is not done with the permission of the game company. What's more, private servers have different rule sets than the main game so it really is a detour to what is offered on the main game.
Listen, you can just read a book, dislike the ending, and decide to rewrite the ending and then post the book for download for anyone who wants to give a donation. You can take a song, decide that it needs more musical material in the higher end, mix it in and then post it for download for donation.
You can take someone else's game, decide you don't like parts of it, change it, and then offer it for play for donations.
If people don't like the game then don't play. you have say as to whether or not that game can be altered and offered as an alternative to the general populace.
There is a reason we have laws. To break them. Viva la resistance!
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These guys are working hard to create a product to sell, I would be infuriated if some brat just comes along and steals it cos "lol it sux I'd never pay for that anyway", yet he spends 4 hours a day on it for months, if not years.