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"What law are they breaking?" is the important question to ask here, and I don't have a good answer. I'm not familiar with Australian law, and none of the artic
by floatingatoll 8y ago
"What law are they breaking?" is the important question to ask here, and I don't have a good answer. I'm not familiar with Australian law, and none of the articles about this seem to have done their due diligence in that respect. I assume that's why they all led with "homes raided" and "funds frozen", since otherwise there'd be no story yet. For example:
"Team of 5 sued in court over creating and selling a video game cheating tool to thousands of players"
Is this interesting? Absolutely. Does it have the same emotional 'clickbait' hook as this?
"Team of 5 have funds frozen before they get a chance to respond to allegations"
Or the actual headline here?
"GTA 'cheats' home raided"
Not even slightly. Don't let a newspaper headline frame the issue for you. The issue here is simple:
"Is it legal, under Australian law, to sell software that violates the terms of service of an online service only when executed by the buyer?"