EPTBlizzard sues Starcraft II hackers - Page 2
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Keitzer
United States2509 Posts
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Kralic
Canada2628 Posts
This rocks, glad they finally are going to do something drastic and hopefully successful! | ||
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Darpa
Canada4413 Posts
And I seriously doubt they have any sway in Peru, in fact I bet that guy is laughing at them. | ||
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tok
United States691 Posts
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RedTerror
New Zealand742 Posts
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Kennigit
Canada19447 Posts
On October 16 2010 13:38 mikeymoo wrote: Why do I recall hearing this in regards to WoW? EDIT: Oh yeah, Zynastor sounds super familiar, can't put my finger on it. He was brag super star and wrote some iccup hacks. | ||
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Damnesiac
United States53 Posts
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cucumber
United States116 Posts
It's unclear what jurisdiction the court has over the accused, although Starcraft II's end-user license agreement specifically states that disputes would be decided by a court within Los Angeles County. That is probably unenforceable under California law. Not that it's likely to matter at the end of the day. | ||
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Sufficiency
Canada23833 Posts
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Terranlisk
Singapore1404 Posts
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Kishkumen
United States650 Posts
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PhiliBiRD
United States2643 Posts
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ooni
Australia1498 Posts
On October 16 2010 13:50 Damnesiac wrote: REALLY REALLY hate the direction intellectual property and copyright law is headed in the US. Just because you used their product to get money doesn't make that your money *KeSPA nods* If so the creators of programming languages would be the richest people on the planet Errr what? Just because you used their product to get money doesn't make that your money *KeSPA nods* Software works like this, you are paying for the right to use the software. Because you are just using a software that another company owns, you have restrictions. For example Microsoft Office costs a lot more than video games or some other software partially because the extend of the right when using the licence. (i.e. you can sell stuff with what you made on MS Office like writing or excel sheet of something; in addition commercial versions are much more expansive). You do not own any software you buy, you just gain a license to use it. With the KeSPA's case it's a lot more complex as Blizzard allowed KeSPA to use SC for a very long time. So Blizzard may have implied agreement with KeSPA, free advertising for Blizzard <=> advertising dollars produced by x Company. This is why Blizzard is being hesitant (to take KeSPA to court). There is no direction or sides 'the law' likes to take, it is just balance of reasonableness and personal rights. If that is the wrong direction to take, everything about law in any country should be considered being wrong. | ||
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darklordjac
Canada2231 Posts
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sk`
Japan442 Posts
On October 16 2010 13:45 ArghUScaredMe wrote: I'd be stunned if they can pull an extradition over this; however, a conviction is very possible. Effectively, that will mean these guys could never travel to the US or any US territory. Certainly viable for the Peruvian, but the Canadians are likely to cross the road at some point.This is great but.. what jurisdiction does LA court have over Canada and Peru? Good luck having California state telling other countries to hand over the suspects for... not murder or terrorism, but video game map hacks. I think it's more symbolic than practical. | ||
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Aberu
United States968 Posts
On October 16 2010 13:45 ArghUScaredMe wrote: This is great but.. what jurisdiction does LA court have over Canada and Peru? Good luck having California state telling other countries to hand over the suspects for... not murder or terrorism, but video game map hacks. I think it's more symbolic than practical. International copyright law, I'm sure they sell the game in Canada and Peru. | ||
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sk`
Japan442 Posts
On October 16 2010 14:00 PhiliBiRD wrote: Hardly the first time hack makers have been sued. Their motivation for making hacks and the logic behind it often means they consider themselves untouchable. Like teenagers who never grew out of that invincibility phase.hopefully this intimidates the hackers. | ||
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Ab0miNaTioN_BoB
United States102 Posts
That'd be dumb. But the hackers do need a scare, or some sort of punishment. Just not having to pay... 85 million dollars. That's retarded... | ||
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teamsolid
Canada3668 Posts
On October 16 2010 13:38 mikeymoo wrote: Why do I recall hearing this in regards to WoW? EDIT: Oh yeah, Zynastor sounds super familiar, can't put my finger on it. He made Oblivion, which ended up being used by a number of well-known BW players and were caught by some huge TL (or was it GG.net) initiative involving replay sniffing. Either way a whole bunch of big names went down that day. Oh yea... I remember Haypro was one of the guys who got banned, where he claimed to have only tried it out while "obsing" games. This is a great move btw. I mean even if they don't end up doing anything to them, at least they can reveal the hackers' names. When that becomes public, it could give them a bad name and even affect them IRL and deter future hackers. | ||
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hordeau
United States157 Posts
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