SouthKorean Government Amending GameLaw To CrackDown On Bots

[Pro Valkyrie Botter]

Geez,
Is this true? Is the Openkore team aware of this?
Is this the end of bots? Noooooooo!!

Source:
http://news.mmosite.com/content/2008-12 ... 2537.shtml

[pranavrules2008]

that is the most hilarious shit i've ever seen.. If gravity agrees with that rule and embraces it, say bye-bye to ATLEAST 60% of the crowd on their servers.. LMAO they KNOW the consequences of banning botters.. This will never go anywhere.. lmao and nothing [as per my knowledge] can be cracked down on open source projects, since they're not funded by any commercial means.. I hope this news isn't bloated more than that site.. Just let it stay there..

ALL HAIL OPENKORE! WE WILL NEVER EVER GIVE UP!!!

[sli]

This would be laughed out of court in the US, but it doesn't matter anywhere but South Korea anyway (probably won't even matter IN South Korea). It's interesting, though, that they're trying to outlaw bots instead of trying to stop projects like eAthena. If this actually does manage to pass, every South Korean botter will most likely just move to private servers. I was wondering when Gravity would turn into Blizzard...

Here in the US, they can't even get game ratings legislated. It's been ruled a violation of the first amendment (USA! USA! USA!). It's cute that South Korea actually has gaming law, though.

[Bibian]

most of gravity's players are outside Korea... so that law wont even apply to us

[sli]

Way to contribute.

[kali]

http://blog.kaliwanagan.ath.cx/index.ph ... n-on-bots/

Weird that they focus on bots, rather than server emulators like (as sli mentioned) eathena.

[pranavrules2008]

http://blog.kaliwanagan.ath.cx/index.ph ... n-on-bots/

Weird that they focus on bots, rather than server emulators like (as sli mentioned) eathena.

My sentiments exactly. Anyway, neither will eAthena stop, NOR will Openkore..

[Bibian]

"At the symposium, Ryu In-Chun said that bot is a type of product which infringes the copyright of others"

how is it copyright infrigement lol

[sli]

It's not. But "copyright infringement" is this generation's legal buzzword. It's the fallback for everything IT-related that corporations don't like. This is also why in the US, stealing a CD from a store is a misdemeanor, but downloading the same CD is a felony. Somehow it's copyright infringement to obtain something without cost, even though you're not claiming it as your own work, ONLY if it's over the internet. Interesting.

[Motivus]

It's already punishable in US courts. Look at Blizzard vs MDY. The wording in that news article makes it seem like the new South Korean law will be used a lot more often, but it will mostly be a scare tactic and way to shutdown people providing bots.