2009-04-25, 11:45 PM
Fiel Wrote:Going overboard? Creating a private server causes Nexon to compete with itself. No company wants that when they can have a full monopoly over their own copyrighted material.
Also, the "profit loss" from CEF is not necessarily from the promotion of private servers, but also of hacks in general. Hacks mean that it's just more code that Nexon has to patch, and that code costs Nexon money which results in the direct loss of profits.
In that it's going way out of their way. Both are, really. Any legal action would result in even more loss than if they just...didn't bother themselves with it, most likely. A noble cause, but a misguided one. Fix your game, then the problems usually work themselves out.
I think the DMCA is the probably the most ridiculous thing ever written. When you try to own digital media, problems arise. I'm not saying it's okay to pirate anything and everything, but there should be a different method of making sure everybody who creates digital media is adequately content with their reward. All these new lawyers and firms popping up representing intellectual property is stupid, the internet isn't something you can control on that level, try as they might.
EDIT: Why do people still call them script kiddies? No one really writes/uses AA scripts anymore. ;-;