EVE General Discussion

This portion of your reply, in regards to what Darren posited earlier regarding arbitration outside of the legal frameworks, is entirely true of real world entities as well. When it becomes to costly to advance arbitration or judgement by legal means often a psuedo court, kangaroo court or lynching/vigilantism occurs in real life all the time.

The "Red Pen" of Code, or the blacklisting of individuals or corporations in Eve is one of these silent enforcements. As is ganking as a last resort to disrupt someones playstyle.

I am reminded of the Japanese Fruit Inspection. A load of fruit had arrived on the Japanese dockyards from a country/supplier they didnt want to trade in Japan but could not, for any legal means, stop. So they unloaded the said fruit onto the docks and let it sit there in the sun for a few weeks until an "inspector" could get around to inspecting the load of fruit. Needless to say the wait had caused the fruit to spoil and start to rot and so when the inspector saw this he simply denied it on health grounds. Charged the shipping company the unloaded and reloading fee and sent it back. The Japanese got paid and the supplier was out an entire shipment of fruit plus added expenses.

Often there are other ways of denial rather than "legal" means.

There are only 3 laws that are enforced:
The New Halaima Code of Conduct, enforced by players
CONCORD
And the EULA, enforced by CCP, GMs and ISDs

I can't think of any other laws that are enforced on a minutely basis, maybe Bob's law (he really needs those corpses)

That's the law highsec miners seemed to follow for the longest time, and look how wretched they became.

Then a superb man and law came to highsec. James 315 and His Code. Highsec has been getting better ever since!