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Ok. I'll rephrase: In what world is getting a 5 year prison sentence for writing an aimbot a "good" thing?

by kybernetyk 10y ago

PietdeVries 10y ago
In a world where a lot of money is made in the gaming industry?
- ethbro 10y ago
  How is this different than making security research or even third party mods illegal? Rather than adding legal penalties that can be wielded at will by companies for less-than-moral purposes (protecting customer-negative revenue streams), they can spend more improving their netcode. Catapults and outlaws, etc. From the article (I can't read Korean): > Based on this law, manufacturing and distributing programs that are not allowed by the game company and its Terms of Service is now directly illegal. That would include [...] or anything not allowed by the ToS.
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FrancoDiaz 10y ago
In no world, except in HN bizzaro world where apologists justify anything a state does by saying..."in the US blaahbalah can already blahaha"
forrestthewoods 10y ago
Cheat making isn't a some hobbyist in a basement. Cheat sellers make tens of millions of dollars per year. It's a big business. And one that actively harms another business (the game). For all players. Even non-professionals.
- noobermin 10y ago
  Perhaps in some cases but can this be really true? I've never heard of a "paid" cheat.
  - detaro 10y ago
    Just google something like "buy CSGO cheats", they are out there for all major games. https://encrypted.google.com/search?q=buy+CSGO+cheats https://encrypted.google.com/search?q=buy+CSGO+cheats
  - forrestthewoods 10y ago
    http://www.artificialaiming.net/ http://www.artificialaiming.net/ Those guys have been around for over a decade. There are many more like them. I'm not sure which services are popular these days.
  - matthewaveryusa 10y ago
    It's huge business and very hard to fight. counter-strike hacks can retail for 60+ dollars. You can even download the hack for trial periods and they have customer service. It's not as innocent as one would think. The problem is that the lines can get pretty blurry. A long time ago there were transparent hacks for everquest[1] that did packet sniffing, and displayed the information in a friendly UI. So is wireshark a hacking tool? Hard to say. [1] http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/technology/2534061.stm http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/technology/2534061.stm

Ok. I'll rephrase: In what world is getting a 5 year prison sentence for writing an aimbot a "good" thing?

PietdeVries 10y ago

In a world where a lot of money is made in the gaming industry?

ethbro 10y ago
How is this different than making security research or even third party mods illegal? Rather than adding legal penalties that can be wielded at will by companies for less-than-moral purposes (protecting customer-negative revenue streams), they can spend more improving their netcode. Catapults and outlaws, etc. From the article (I can't read Korean): > Based on this law, manufacturing and distributing programs that are not allowed by the game company and its Terms of Service is now directly illegal. That would include [...] or anything not allowed by the ToS.

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FrancoDiaz 10y ago

In no world, except in HN bizzaro world where apologists justify anything a state does by saying..."in the US blaahbalah can already blahaha"

forrestthewoods 10y ago

Cheat making isn't a some hobbyist in a basement. Cheat sellers make tens of millions of dollars per year. It's a big business. And one that actively harms another business (the game). For all players. Even non-professionals.

noobermin 10y ago
Perhaps in some cases but can this be really true? I've never heard of a "paid" cheat.
- detaro 10y ago
  Just google something like "buy CSGO cheats", they are out there for all major games. https://encrypted.google.com/search?q=buy+CSGO+cheats https://encrypted.google.com/search?q=buy+CSGO+cheats
- forrestthewoods 10y ago
  http://www.artificialaiming.net/ http://www.artificialaiming.net/ Those guys have been around for over a decade. There are many more like them. I'm not sure which services are popular these days.
- matthewaveryusa 10y ago
  It's huge business and very hard to fight. counter-strike hacks can retail for 60+ dollars. You can even download the hack for trial periods and they have customer service. It's not as innocent as one would think. The problem is that the lines can get pretty blurry. A long time ago there were transparent hacks for everquest[1] that did packet sniffing, and displayed the information in a friendly UI. So is wireshark a hacking tool? Hard to say. [1] http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/technology/2534061.stm http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/technology/2534061.stm