Evony Hacker Slapped With $300,000 Judgment

[Wado Rhyu]

another example of the broken systeem that is american law. here in holland there is a predefinde amount for you to pay per crime. or in case of accident its caculated by the amount of the money someone would have earn and isn't now. things like this would be payable in periodes of time

btw i hope nobody plays this game anymore.

 

[SemiHumanTarget]

If I made a 5 minute independent video that got millions upon millions of views on Youtube, and someone copied it, there would be no way I could sue them. But a moderately successful MMO or a band decides they want to sue, and they get hundreds of thousands from people that can't afford to pay it anyway? What kind of country do we live in?

The barter system is less primitive than this.

 

[ejb626]

Man, I haven't seen an Evony ad in so long, I thought this game was dead I guess not.

 

[Atmos Duality]

"Some of the charges overlapped" huh?
I'd bet that most of that 300k goes to the company lawyer's legal fees.

 

[Cobaltmotari]

Evony? Isn't that the game with tasteless ads of women practically falling out of skimpy outfits?

Yup. Except it's worse than that - it's a glorified spyware program. Oh, how I long for the days when these jokers get sued themselves for computer damages!

 

[Fleaman]

Intellectual property? I can see the Age of Empires graphical assets from here. Evony is a fetid hive of fraud, spyware, and the basest money-grubbing nature it is possible to stuff into a terrible MMO, a genre defined only by its base money-grubbing nature.

http://www.escapistmagazine.com/news/view/99596-Evony-Drops-Libel-Lawsuit-Against-Blogger
Is one year all it takes to forget the face of evil personified?

 

[ALPHATT]

Sir,you are a real asshole.

And? :/ I pair him up with cheaters, cheat makers and bot makers. I really can't give them any sympathy. Doesn't matter what they've done. If someone sue them too oblivion it only makes me happy.

you are cold. Messing with a company is essentially worse than acts that put lives in danger? yeah right..

So why should I even remotely care about one guy I've never met in my entire life? Specially one that makes bot programs for games? Sure it might only been for that Evony but he might make it for others as well.

Retosa: $1200 for a single apartment? Holy hell it's expensive over there. Apartments here in Sweden that is a single person cost around $150 to $200. An apartment fit for 2-3 might be around $350 to $400.

no it's not about caring for this 1 specific guy, it's about the notion that companies can royally fuck you like this as soon as they can slap copyright infirngment on what you did. You are cold because you have little to none sympathy for people who find that their whole world is tumbling down on them.

 

[Opet]

Truth be told, there was no private server. The "bots" were also incomplete and did not do anything except function as a proxy for the game. The only thing offered on their site was "Evomap" which did nothing more than keep a cache of where players were located.