GameMX Wrote: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.Your example is still a straw man, because Cheat Engine is not a patch that specifically targets Nexon's proprietary material.
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?
If you want to zazz it up with emotional appeals, you may as well go for murder like Stereo did. Family is a good one, that hits close to home for everyone, but murder's better for emotional appeal.
Even if that is the case, the people actually DOING the damage (not the code, mind you, the people using it) are liable. Not the creator of the code.
FYI, I'm aware of the emotional effect of invoking Godwin's Law, but the rights of an individual are infinitely more important than one single means of profit generation. The damage to society in both is clear, but the former is much, much worse.