Koolk was arrested!!

R.I.P. unborn repacker...
fight the fight against unfinished repacker abortion

Say KoolK. Like, speak/say/scream it. It sounds exactly as Cool Key.

I'm confused as to where the "ee" vowel sound comes from.

why are they suing him instead of hiring?

>.<

why are they suing him instead of hiring?

>.<

Oh, that post is PURE win.

YEAH they should SERIOUSLY hire him, because he > NEXON.

Really. If they hired him the patches wouldn't have so many bugs, I guarantee you.

I hope he moves to Iran or Brazil, and continues to do this. This is a wake up call for Nexon. People do not like their game due to terrible Customer service, and glitches in-game! Auto Banning legit players, and when they send in a ticket they deny it's their fault. Wow they just think they're perfect. Good luck KoolK you made Maple funner than anybody imagined.

Man, can't believe he got arrested =[.

He didn't even released the dam repacker. He didn't really do much wrong. The only thing probally is the titanms source.

what im wondering is why they said he hacked the KMS servers. i have the feeling that the guy who wrote this article knew nothing about what he wrote... i suppose by saying that he decrypted the protections the author is saying that he unpacked maple...

Maybe they're trying to crush private server source developers before the release of pirates or other "big updates"? Who knows.

Or they are trying to make people stay in their servers instead of pservers to make MORE money.

And it's funny how Maple was decrypted or whatever by a high school student

Yeah, they're lack on "security"??? :f6:

why are they suing him instead of hiring?
>.<

Oh, that post is PURE win.

YEAH they should SERIOUSLY hire him, because he > NEXON.

Really. If they hired him the patches wouldn't have so many bugs, I guarantee you.

Yep, he's good in those extraction or whatever they called it.

Anyway, I hope you'll be doin' just fine...RIP!

Or they are trying to make people stay in their servers instead of pservers to make MORE money.

Of course they want people to play on their servers to make more money, what do you expect?

RIP Odin source. RIP Titan source. Vana is the only one left. RIP all private servers soon. I think avenge is right. Pirates less buggy on p servers than on GMS would kill nexon.
Good luck with legal battles Koolk.

@OP: you should change the title to "Koolk got arrested by the police"

Wow... Nexon just crossed the line.

Huh

People providing unofficial public servers crossed the line first.

This may be the end of private servers as we know it.

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.

Fiel can't, because he's literally making Nexon earn more money by giving it more publicity and more info.

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.

isn't he part of the wz repacker though

The repacker falls under fair use so long as it's not distributed. Fair use won't stop Nexon from suing, but it will allow them to win the case about it.

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.

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.

in that case i'd suggest you to be his lawyer o.o

and why do you always write in purple

He's not in jail. He was either released on bail or had to pay a fine, but probably bail.

he was released on bail of 5,000 NIS [aka New Israel Shekel. 1$ = 3.5 NIS, aka he paid around the 1,400$]

uhm
Fiel or Isaac
could you edit the title to "Koolk was arrested by the police for hacking the WZ files!"?

he was released on bail of 5,000 NIS [aka New Israel Shekel. 1$ = 3.5 NIS, aka he paid around the 1,400$]

uhm
Fiel or Isaac
could you edit the title to "Koolk was arrested by the police for hacking the WZ files!"?

dont you read your own posts? he wasnt arrested for his wz repacker. he was arrested for making titanms.

dont you read your own posts? he wasnt arrested for his wz repacker. he was arrested for making titanms.

uhm
1.This is the same thing
2.he did get arrested for hacking the KMS WZ files. not for making TitanMS..
so.. let's leave the decision to Fiel/Isaac

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.

Go have a look at the history of unlicensed gaming on the NES.

And yes, I do believe that OpenOffice and FoxIt are also unlicensed infringements, but the difference here is that Microsoft and Adobe aren't taking action. It may even be that the .doc and .pdf formats, despite being created for the software in question, were made in such a way as to not make them proprietary.

And the gun analogy is wrong in that the Bill of Rights guarantees a right to bear arms. There are limitations to this, however. For example, if I made a nuclear bomb and gave it to Osama Bin Laden, I would be held legally responsible. I can't say "oh, I only made it, he was the one who killed people with it." The fact of the matter is that he developed software to emulate the server interaction and distributed this to individuals who he knew would use it illegally.

And please, don't make me get back into this tiff about "nothing stolen" that went down in the thread about Odin. Theft is not a requirement of IP infringement.