@cpc65: Stealing has nothing to do with copyright. It is not legally …

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

@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 company have the right to force you to use its server? Accordingly to current laws they can, but should this be the case?

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.

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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:
  

  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 …

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

  Wait… People who play the game legitimately are going to get upset because NCsoft is going after people who are pirating the game? What an amazing leap of logic…

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