Afrobean Wrote:This is irrelevant. Many of the things on this site are blatant infringements, even things completely unrelated to the concepts of data extraction.

However, since the site's purpose is that of a fansite that pushes players toward Nexon's service, rather than a "Rogue website" that encourages distension, Nexon likely will not act against this site. Anyway, they'd have about the same justification to attack Sleepywood or Hidden-street as they would to attack this site.

ClawofBeta Wrote:Fiel, are you going to continue the repacker?

modular Wrote:why are they suing him instead of hiring?

>.<

Fiel Wrote:1. Of course I'm going to continue the repacker. It falls under fair use, and I do not plan on releasing it or any files created with it.

Flowsion Wrote:You have no idea what you're talking about. If Nexon decides to take action against me, the FlowsionMS Project will be shutdown and the last reminaing OdinMS Fork will be closed. This is an enormous blow to the private server community as this is a 'scare' tactic towards a lot of users as well as koolk being a huge part of the scene. This means that the 2 original sources (TitanMS and OdinMS) are now closed. The remains of these sources (TitanMS -> Vana and OdinMS -> FlowsionMS) are the only remaining projects of Maplestory Private Servers.

Flowsion Wrote:You really think anyone has the knowledge to? The community is filled with idiots, all the good coders are on the FlowsionMS Team.

Flowsion Wrote:They won't.

Afrobean Wrote:People providing unofficial public servers crossed the line first.

Quote:You may consider this a bad thing, but so too do murders think it's bad that killing is illegal. You're too deep in to the situation to give an unbiased opinion on whether it is right of Nexon to do these things or not. It's Nexon's IP, and they're completely justified to bring legal actions against those who would infringe it. How would you feel if you created a movie, game, or other piece of art and were trying to distribute it, only to find some rogue group deciding that their version of your piece of art was better, and not only this, but this group was giving away copies of your art for free and encouraging the public to stay away from your official version.

Quote:I'm all for the other things KoolK was involved in though. The stuff that, you know, isn't illegal, or rather, the things which actually fall under fair use.

Quote:This is irrelevant. Many of the things on this site are blatant infringements, even things completely unrelated to the concepts of data extraction.

However, since the site's purpose is that of a fansite that pushes players toward Nexon's service, rather than a "Rogue website" that encourages distension, Nexon likely will not act against this site. Anyway, they'd have about the same justification to attack Sleepywood or Hidden-street as they would to attack this site.

Quote:The repacker falls under fair use so long as it's not distributed.

Flowsion Wrote:You sure know nothing of the development community then. Koolk, Vana and FMS Developers and maybe RMZero# are good devs. There are none aside from them.

Devil Wrote:Any extractions of any freely distributed data on the internet is completely legal, and it's also a fundamental right of humans to talk about it. It's called freedom of press and speech. Southperry, Sleepywood, Hiddenstreet, they all have the freedom to publicise everything they want, even if they're not even fansites at all...

Rain Wrote:Trunks, you do relise that someday you will get caught, probably this or next year, as you are the owner of Flowsion Inc, which seems to be hosting private servers and forums(?) like southperry.

You now probably have the biggest Private Server out there. If you get sued, do you have backup plan, or will you open your private server under a new name?

(Sorry, if this is a utterly stupid question.)

Flowsion Wrote:I will them I'm 11 and Fiel is my dad.

Russt Wrote:Intellectual property.

Nexon distributes its client for free, sure, but it (and everything else contained within it, including images, sound files, etc) is still owned by Nexon and it's infringement to host it elsewhere in any other form. Like a png image.

They aren't likely to sue every single person who uses Maplestory images, since there's simply too many of them and Nexon doesn't stand to gain much from doing that, but I'm pretty sure it does technically constitute infringement.

Not saying I'm against it.

Quote:student of the 11th grade has been arrested this morning because of hacking the game Maplestory(which has been created by Nexon) and releasing "the secret codes to upgrade your charcter".

The young guy has admitted he did that for "fame on the internet" after an investigation that lasted 3 months.

During the month of July complaint filed by attorneys representing the company in Israel, Nexon Korean. Company representatives noticed that are Israeli as a "koolk" broke the company's software, downloadable for free, it slipped by module security module connection. The hacker opened server which is equivalent to connect with the cracked software, and made users who were supposed to connect to the original server connect to the pirated server.

The game "Maplestory" is a free-based game, you can play in for free when-ever you want, but if you want a strong charcter you have to pay to Nexon.

The guy also published the cracked\pirated software by the Internet thereby caused financial damage to increase, and increased the fear viruses for the game who have used the cracked\pirated software. Over several weeks, the boy managed to evade researchers of computer fraud unit, which came during the investigation was considered hackers innocent people.

During the search conducted by police fraud unit of the district center computer of computer material was captured, detained the suspect for questioning. Pleaded guilty to minor offenses and released on making conditions restrictive by his parents. The police say that this is an offense to infiltrate into pertaining to computer material, breaking into a protected server, removing the security of a server module and establishing smiliar server - all of these criminal offenses.

Quote:Nexon America Inc. (“Nexon” is the owner of the Website, (Nexon's website could post link because i dont have enough posts) (the “Website” The website contains Nexon’s copyrighted material and the intellectual property in the Video Games on the Website, which include the game MapleStory (the “Game”, as well as the original images on the Website and embedded in the Game, and the object and source code for the site. In addition, Nexon is the owner in the trademarks NEXON and MapleStory, as well as hundreds of other trademarks used in association with the website.

You are currently hosting the following website: http://titanms.koolk.net (the “Rogue Website”. This website is a haven for private servers of the Game, and for those who have illegally misappropriated Nexon’s intellectual property: These private servers who specifically distribute and download private server software for the Game from the Rogue Website are severely damaging the Game and are hurting Nexon’s business. In addition, they are misappropriating Nexon’s intellectual property for their own commercial gain.

I hereby state that Nexon America Inc. is the owner of copyright in the images attached hereto and that to the best of my knowledge and belief, the infringing use was not authorized by it, its agents or the law. I further declare under penalty of perjury that this notice is accurate and that I am authorized to act as Nexon America Inc.’s agent in this matter. Pursuant to the Copyright Act, and your Terms of Service, Nexon America Inc. demands that you shut down the Rogue Website and remove the infringing material contained on said site.

You may reach me by e-mail at ***@nexon.net if you have any questions about this matter. The foregoing is not intended as a complete statement of our rights and remedies, all of which are hereby expressly reserved.