Koolk was arrested!!

I was actually coming on to post that very question as it seems that is the path that Nexon is taking, chasing individuals over "lost income".
As a side note, would Nexon be required to demonstrate the they actually lost income through this? I play a p-server occasionally and have quite a bit of Cash shop clothing on me, however I would never EVER pay for any of that in Global.

Recall that this the same situation the music industry faced when mp3 downloads first hit it big. Clearly the industry was taking a hit from it, but how could a company calculate exactly how much money they lost directly as a result of a single person or group illegally giving away their music? Surely not everyone who downloaded the song would have bought it otherwise.

Noone said that true IP infringement wasn't illegal, the only thing you and others differ on oppinion about is if in this case it -IS- IP infingement we're talking about. I don't think it is because noone copyed anything, you think it is, because that person writes own software that's compatible with software provided by Nexon, and think that's an IP breach. Again, oppionions can differ

It's not a matter of opinion. It's a matter of fact.

And even if my statements thus far were wrong, it's still not a matter of opinion. You can't have an opinion that something is against the law or not (this is the willful ignorance someone else called you on in a previous post; ignorance to the law is not a legitimate defense). You can have an opinion as to whether it is immoral, but laws are clearcut, and in the cases where there is leeway in the understanding, the judges clearly define it once it is relevant to application of said law. Asking a person their "opinion" on if a law exists is like asking someone their opinion on whether the moon exists. Even if the moon doesn't actually exist, this is something that is a matter of fact, not opinion. Honestly, did you not go over these concepts in elementary school?

And yes, I know, ad hominem. Get off my back, this kid deserves it.

ps yeah definitely guys, rather than wasting time breaking the law and getting sued by Nexon, why not take your skills and put them to work as legitimate competition for Nexon. Build an original game of a similar concept. If the servers are that easy to maintain, you could even instill a system where you could make legitimate money off of it.

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a problem with coding your own game is what type of coding it will be made with. MS is used with the WZ files, but most likely a self made game wont be put into a container like .WZ, so it would be easy for other to take it and modify parts of it to their own ends.

Look at how many can decrypt the WZ. You don't think that the brilliant minds of the community could employ a likewise encryption method in an original game?

And what does it matter, right? If all that would appear in the "easily" accessible data is music, strings, pictures, why does it matter? Does it hurt MapleStory to have people extracting pictures and information every time they patch?