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The matter you have linked to is a criminal matter that relates to the practice of medicine. It is important to differentiate between criminal and civil matter
by cturner 6y ago
The matter you have linked to is a criminal matter that relates to the practice of medicine.
It is important to differentiate between criminal and civil matters. Police should only be involved in criminal matters, and should never be act as the agent of a party in civil disputes.
The matter of video cheating appears to be a civil matter.
On this forum of all places, we must be wary of legislative creep towards vague wording such as "the misapplication of computer systems from their intended purpose". At that point, the police will be deployed at the behest of well-connected interests. In practice, it will mean that the system will be used to beat up hackers at the direction of bigco, even for petty matters when it serves to make an example.
We have already seen this play out in the Swartz and Aleynikov trials: matters that were civil disputes by any reasonable reading, but which were executed as criminal matters (in one case, even after the plaintiff had withdrawn).
- flohofwoe 6y agoSee my other comment above. The "organization" in question is (most likely) an illegal business which didn't pay taxes. This is almost certainly a "criminal matter" in most countries, police get involved all the time when it comes to illegal business practices, at the least the police is doing searches and arrests. This isn't the old type of harmless "crackers and warez groups" scene, but first and foremost about making money. PS: I wonder if commenters here think that Tencent is sending police after the people using those cheats? It's clearly about the organization producing and selling the cheats. The players will at most get a simple ban.
- cturner 6y agoBoth this comment and your earlier comment appear to be speculation. Above you said they did not pay taxes, but now you seem less sure. Why? What is your evidence?
- flohofwoe 6y agoIt's my speculation in this specific case, but that's how such "companies" usually work, they are highly professional in every aspect except for being an actually registered company - because then they could be "legally dealt with", depending on the country they operate from of course (I've been on the other side for the last 10 years working on an MMO, and having to deal with professional-quality commercial bots is unfortunately a constant "background distraction" for us).
- cturner 6y agoThanks for the context regarding your experience in a related domain. Still, in your comments you have been presenting speculation as fact. Please don't do that.