GameMX Wrote:And since it is basically targeting Nexon's proprietary material. Since they were basically using this for the full purpose of cheating. It was Nexon's target.No, it doesn't. How, exactly, does Cheat Engine target MapleStory's copyrighted material? I downloaded it a second ago, scanned the options and the interface, and didn't see a "Modify MapleStory" option. I'm seriously interested to know.
One other thing, how would you take it, in all honesty, if someone was hacking your game that you were making profit off of. And a forum board community was basically targeting your material?
And regarding your second paragraph, I have a brain. It happens to work pretty well. I have a fair bit of business sense to boot. The full scope of a decision can't be easily taken without considering every aspect of it. This was obviously either not thought entirely through or deliberately designed to violate the law.
I would've handled it differently. Send a DMCA, say "okay, you have infringing materials here, here, and here. Please take them down." That would've been within the law.
They probably would've put up rules about not having Nexon proprietary material - if not after the first DMCA, then after a few DMCAs. There's no need to go overboard and try to shut down the entire site. You can stop the distribution of your copyrighted work that way. That's it. That's all you're supposed to be able to do. Nexon has no copyrights over Cheat Engine.
To really stop hacking, they need more active GMs. That's all there is to it. Unless they start monitoring every single thing that your computer launches and does (which they already do, I just don't think it's transmitted automatically [could be wrong RE transmission]), there's no other LEGAL way to take action against people that are using hacks.
EDIT: Oh yeah, and getting your details from an ISP is a trivial affair. They could easily ask for the account information of someone using a particular IP address at x time. Nevermind the implications about false detections, other people using your machines, etc...