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scam in video games and go to jail for real
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BLACK-STAR
#21 - 2014-07-31 08:42:58 UTC
Don't worry about it. smh... pfft that idiot deserved to get scammed if he vouched some legislation over his sorry ass cause. what a miserable douche.

That being said, that law will never internationally be recognized. Someone donate that guy a tear cup. If anyone is prosecuted over a game, wow, that would be the day the industry implodes.
Anya Klibor
Native Freshfood
Minmatar Republic
#22 - 2014-07-31 08:46:09 UTC
BLACK-STAR wrote:
Don't worry about it. smh... pfft that idiot deserved to get scammed if he vouched some legislation over his sorry ass cause. what a miserable douche.

That being said, that law will never internationally be recognized. Someone donate that guy a tear cup. If anyone is prosecuted over a game, wow, that would be the day the industry implodes.


I doubt it'll be internationally recognized as well. The issue is that it's going to end up causing a lot of legal issues for game companies, among other things. Once again, EvE Online will face some problems if the British judiciary doesn't step in.

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Max Godsnottlingson
Viziam
Amarr Empire
#23 - 2014-07-31 13:13:02 UTC
Ignore it. The UK political parties are starting to wind up to an election next year, so they are all looking at grasping onto whatever 'cool straws' theuy can all get their grubby thieving hands on.

The next elections are wide open due to the appathy that the UK voter has due to everybody being sick and tired of all the lying that all poloticians engage in, so you'll find lots of stupid ideas being banded around as they all try to con a couple more votes out of us.

As that famous Socialist Reblel 'Wolfie' Smith used to say. "Put them all up against a wall. Last cigarette. Bop bop bop! Oh, no, we can't give them a last cigerette. That'd be bad for their health!"
Jonah Gravenstein
Machiavellian Space Bastards
#24 - 2014-07-31 15:55:39 UTC  |  Edited by: Jonah Gravenstein
Max Godsnottlingson wrote:
The next elections are wide open due to the apathy that the UK voter has due to everybody being sick and tired of all the lying that all politicians engage in...
Understatement of the decade, you forgot about all of the stealing they do too P

On that note:
How do you know that it's cold outside?
The politicians have their hands in their own pockets instead of yours.

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Angelique Duchemin
Team Evil
#25 - 2014-08-07 03:33:31 UTC
Anya Klibor wrote:
Sabriz Adoudel wrote:
The only in-game item where a real world monetary value might be assigned to it in EVE is a still-in-redemption PLEX.

That is against the game rules to steal. As soon as you convert it from a redemption system PLEX to an in-game object, that issue is no longer relevant.


What part of "the game company's don't get to pick what is and isn't covered" did you not get? I realize the vast majority of CODE. are mentally handicapped, but read what I wrote a bit before you chime in.


Sounds like someone lost their auto piloting Orca. I know you like the cargo expanders but do consider fitting a DCU.

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Rain6637
GoonWaffe
Goonswarm Federation
#26 - 2014-08-07 07:17:35 UTC
here's something relevant that made me feel bad.

I asked myself what would be the easiest way to scam, metagaming as much as possible. this was the sequence:

recruit noob
convince noob a purple raven is uber
tell them where to buy PLEX to fund it
have them trade the purple raven for a pre-flight check

the feels that resulted from conceiving the plan were surprisingly bad.

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Jonah Gravenstein
Machiavellian Space Bastards
#27 - 2014-08-07 08:07:52 UTC
Rain6637 wrote:
here's something relevant that made me feel bad.

I asked myself what would be the easiest way to scam, metagaming as much as possible. this was the sequence:

recruit noob
convince noob a purple raven is uber
tell them where to buy PLEX to fund it
have them trade the purple raven for a pre-flight check

the feels that resulted from conceiving the plan were surprisingly bad.
That's probably bannable, even Erotica 1 made a point of telling people that they shouldn't buy plexes for his bonus room antics.

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Derrick Miles
Death Rabbit Ky Oneida
#28 - 2014-08-07 08:17:01 UTC
Theft of intellectual property is already a prosecutable offense. But for online games the ToS or EULA specifically says that to play we surrender our rights to any ownership of whatever we do with the game, so there isn't really any danger of getting in legal trouble for in-game "theft" so long as those clauses exist in the user license agreements.
Rain6637
GoonWaffe
Goonswarm Federation
#29 - 2014-08-07 08:36:01 UTC
Jonah, most people say it is not bannable. use alts and communicate in-game to keep it within the confines of the game...

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Jonah Gravenstein
Machiavellian Space Bastards
#30 - 2014-08-08 00:40:09 UTC
Rain6637 wrote:
Jonah, most people say it is not bannable. use alts and communicate in-game to keep it within the confines of the game...
There is that, but personally I would advise against anybody specifically encouraging people to buy plex for the sole purpose of forcibly removing it from their possession.

Grey area and all that.

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Angelique Duchemin
Team Evil
#31 - 2014-08-08 05:24:33 UTC
I have it on good authority that advising people in-game to buy plexes to then scam them can get you into serious trouble.

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