2009-04-26, 11:46 AM
xLeviathan Wrote:It doesn't work that way in China.
The copyright laws are quite different. :<
Enough to have a case, but the local governments in China tend to slack when it comes to IPR's and things. I wouldn't be surprised if they came right out and said they support piracy and just disregard all IPR laws anyway.
...However unfortunate, intellectual property infringements in China only occur whenever the information is copyrighted, patented, or trademarked within the PRC.
Have you followed the series of trials taken place regarding The Pirate Bay? Nowadays any major American conglomerate can throw the "Intellectual Property Violation" card out of their asses and have American law pushed on other countries.
It's not as far-fetched as you think.
In this circumstance, the servers are like real-estate. Same way with how if you're on an army base internationally, you're considered to be on American soil. If these folks are using Nexon's servers, they're subject to consequences present in the nation of those servers: the United States.