2009-04-28, 01:29 AM
LazyBui Wrote:Oh, you want to play that card. I figured since the DMCA and free speech were the issues here, we were speaking in reference to the US. And in the US, we have a Constitutional right to guns. Must've totally escaped my mind that guns are outlawed.
You don't need to issue a better example, I agree. But your example doesn't apply. Code is being used for something harmful. That has nothing to do with the distribution of it, nor the creation of it. The user is the offending party, not the creator of the software.
Cheat Engine does not infringe on anyone's rights and Nexon is, indeed, overstepping the boundary of the law. How it's used might infringe Nexon's rights, but that's a separate issue entirely that has nothing to do with DarkByte.
What you're suggesting is anything that can possibly be used for copyright infringement is actionable. This is THE SAME EXACT THING as trying to go after mIRC because it supports DCC. Going after Bram Cohen for BitTorrent. Going after Windows Calculator because it can help you decrypt and distribute encrypted copyrighted files. There's no difference. Cheat Engine is a tool, nothing more, nothing less.
Ok then. Seeing how you like to think this way about the law, as it must be followed step by step:
Court of Law V.S. Court of Justice.
Justice is the concept of moral rightness based on ethics, rationality, law, natural law, fairness and equity.
Law is a system of rules, usually enforced through a set of institutions.
Both definitions are from Wikipedia. I hope you understand that.
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So lets take this. A team of programmers have made a living profit off a video game that can only be run on the internet. With this money, the team can feed their family and themselves, along with cloth and house.
A few people decide to write a few "cheats" to the game, to bypass certain functionality within the game. Giving an upper hand. They release a public patch to this.
Some people, who don't understand advance computer logic, use this. They start taking advantages of this cheat. They come to corrupt even others gameplay. Players who actually like to have a challenge are upset by this, and quite a number quit. The profit that the programmers were gaining is now halting. They have no money to feed their family.
The programmers have no income now. What honestly gave the people the right to take away their living?