South Korea passes bill to make cheating programs illegal

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http://www.gamasutra.com/view/news/286852/South_Korea_cracks_down_on_cheaters_with_law_targeting_illicit_game_mods.php
https://pvplive.net/c/south-korea-passes-bill-to-directly-punish-hack-ma

South Korea passed a bill to make programs that go against the ToS of a game company illegal, which can result in 5 years jail time.

[Ad Bot]

[Outpact-]

So if I hack CSGO in South Korea will I get global in that 5 years time

[Daswiruch]

vidja games are very serious business down there in south korea

[Becquerel]

vidja games are very serious business down there in south korea

its so popular its like its an olympic sport

[MoltenKitten]

Good, don't play the game if you can't play it right scumbags

[Ipquarx]

That's bullcrap. This can be abused in so many ways it's insane. This bill literally turns a terms of service of any program into law. If you don't follow the company's whims on what you can and cannot run on your computer, you go to jail.

Yes, I know it pretty much won't ever be enforced. No, that doesn't justify it.

[Gytyyhgfffff]

if you key share in south korea its off to jail for 5 years for you

[Foxscotch]

This bill literally turns a terms of service of any program into law.

it already is. it's called contract law. you agree to a contract when you install the software
there are some situations where you have a right to reverse engineer something anyway, at least in some jurisdictions, but terms of service are already law

[Ipquarx]

it already is. it's called contract law.

And there's a huge difference between contract law and penal law.
This bill turns the ToS into a penal law, which has a ton more power than a contract does.

[Silleb²]

Communists.

[McZealot]

Uhhhh, this is insane. Nobody really reads the TOS and when you make it as enforceable as the law that seems like a cheap way to imprison pretty much anyone, since a TOS can be as ridiculous as it wants.

I hope this is a sort of symbolic law that wont really be used.

it already is. it's called contract law

Violating contract law isn't punished criminally though--only penally. So you might get fined or sued, but you aren't gonna end up in prison.

[Magus]

Well, better than putting their convicts in powered armor as front line troops.

[Whackin]

if you key share in south korea its off to jail for 5 years for you

if you own blockland ur probably already in jail for life tbh

[Couatl]

LoL and Starcraft drama gonna get intense now lmao

[Metario]

oops nobody take me to South Korea