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Comment on Cops Bust Tower of Aion “Pirate Server” Admin & Players by Anonymous:

“copyright infringement is of only use when the person is making money off your product,”

Absolutely false.

Copyright infringement covers the use, duplication and / or the distribution of any copyrighted material without the consent of the owner of the copyright, whether there is money involved or not.

Again, this is just like making illegal copies of movies and music and sharing them on the internet, which is patently illegal. Why do you think they shut down all those p2p sites like Kazaa, Napster and Limelight? Why do you think most torrent sites have closed up or have made vast changes to how they operate? It’s because sharing copyrighted material is illegal.

“but in this cause its pointless since they will only be losing money by pressing charges.”

Again false.

It does not cost you anything to press charges against someone. By all indications this is being treated as a criminal case, which means it will be handled and tried by the government, not NCsoft. If it were a civil case, as in NC was suing these people, then it wold be a different matter and NC would have to foot the bill.

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• Cops Bust Tower of Aion “Pirate Server” Admin & Players:
  

  No.. This is same as procecuting users for creating their own Steam-like server which fools downloaded Skyrim to think it is legit copy. Anyone who willfully utilize it must be at some level aware what they are doing. Not saying there should not be room for servers like this. Back in ages of Ultima Online, Origin did sue quite a lot of shards, until they realized it is rather futile attempt. Their solution was to strike deal with server-modders: You don’t get paid for our work, and we don’t …

• Cops Bust Tower of Aion “Pirate Server” Admin & Players:
  

  “re: The person was only interfacing his software with the official client software. He didn’t use the proprietary server code. In my opinion this is fair use and should be acceptable.” At the very least, the person running the pirate server knowingly, and purposefully, facilitated the infringement by allowing people to use his server to bypass having to pay NCSoft. This would make him just as guilty, whether he used the actual NCSoft server program or not. This is much the same as Youtube and …

• Cops Bust Tower of Aion “Pirate Server” Admin & Players:
  

  @cpc65: Stealing has nothing to do with copyright. It is not legally the same and will never be. Nobody can “steal intellectual property” as it can be copied endlessly at no cost. What needs to be discussed is how much return should someone have for “creating” something, and at which point whatever he created should become Public Domain. @Anon 16:37 – There are problems not only about the duration of copyright but also regarding its scope. This case specifically is very complicated. Should a …

• Cops Bust Tower of Aion “Pirate Server” Admin & Players:
  

  RE; To all the copyright zealots in this thread: Regardless of how draconian copyright laws have become (yes, I agree they’ve stretched the limitations far too much), Aion has only been out for 3 years. Which means that it would still be protected even under the most lax timeline you’ve described.

• Cops Bust Tower of Aion “Pirate Server” Admin & Players:
  

  To all the copyright zealots in this thread: Copyright is not theft by any legal or even logic definition of the term. It is another infraction entirely. Copyright exists for a few hundred years, which is basically nothing compared to the History of the human race. Most of humanity’s creation came before its existence. It was created because society felt that it would be a benign stimulus to creation, and for some time it was. Formerly copyright was 14 years after creation with a possible 14 …

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