Afrobean Wrote:Huh
People providing unofficial public servers crossed the line first.
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.
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.
This is irrelevant. Many of the things on this site are blatant infringements, even things completely unrelated to the concepts of data extraction.
Koolk didn't even run a private server though, he just wrote the code. That's like arresting someone for murder because they made a gun, and then let other people use it. It's not his fault if people use stuff he makes inproperly and violate Nexon's TOS. As far as I know he didn't even distribute cracked client, just a server that could emulate the MS server. Nothing stolen from Nexon, just self developed code. Should it be illegal to reverse engineer or write code that interfaces with someone else's data, because they already wrote software to do it? That would make OpenOffice reading .doc illegal, FoxIt reading .pdf, etc.