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It's actually quite reasonable if you think about it from a financial perspective. Company makes game, their intellectual property. Someone else makes a cheat
by dngray 6y ago
It's actually quite reasonable if you think about it from a financial perspective.
Company makes game, their intellectual property. Someone else makes a cheat and makes a lot of money destroying their IP, causing them to lose money as players decide the game "has too many cheaters".
Obviously gaming companies do try to employ technical solutions to the problem, but I would guess this outfit got so large simply by being ignored.
- magahacka 6y agoMy question would be what are the actual laws that the cheat makers have broken, at best they violated the ToS of the game. The arguement would be similar then with lockpicking tools if a company created a lockpick that was specifically designed to use against the locks that are manufactured by the by some specific brand.
- jleahy 6y agoIn the UK, the computer misuse act is extremely broad and in theory covers a huge amount of stuff. I’m not familiar with the equivalent rules in china.
- Wohlf 6y agoIt's my understanding that they're being charged with laws that are same as hacking a company server. I'm sure Chinese law works different than Westerners are used to.
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- alert0 6y agoI have a harder time wrapping my head around this after your comment. I get that police are there to protect corporate profits, so it makes sense in that way. The IP stance though, is this precedent that if you are a large corporation, the game laws you make are then enforceable in the real world? It does really blow my mind that makers of software that people buy and run on their own machines are going to get locked in a cage because they were undermining a game's design. I've actually had some respect for China's treatment of intellectual property, as I believe a looser IP policy allows for faster innovation in society. This is just enforcing corporate interests though, it's not the world I want to see and it's going to take some very talented developers and reverse engineers out of the job market.
- geon 6y agoUsing cheat software is a breach of the terms of service. The cheaters are welcome to do wtf they want with their computer, but they should not be allowed to abuse a service. And it ruins the day for for millions of people who just want to enjoy the game.
- Hallucinaut 6y agoThis can't be the reasoning. That is breach of contract and therefore a civil case (unless it's different in Germany?). Companies do not write laws, ergo breaching a company's terms is not criminal.
- ev1 6y agoAt least in the US I would not be surprised if breaking authentication handshakes and taking unwanted copies of game memory space is CFAA/DMCA felony. I anal, but have previously done both cheat and anticheat as a kid.
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- Hallucinaut 6y agoApologies, I mean China. Don't know why I said Germany but I can't edit my comment.
- alert0 6y agoNo worries, I get them confused all the time. Very similar places.
- meowface 6y agoBut the question is why the proper legal route isn't the civil system instead of getting law enforcement involved to arrest them. In the US, I think a company's only route would be a lawsuit, if the only thing going on was game cheating and ToS violation. Though I could be wrong.