....there has been at least 2 p-servers where the owner got brought to the court and that he/she has to share the visitor's addresses to AGE.....  

btw your servers jus crashed.  

and? So what, AGE can't do anything about visitors, infact AGE have no right to that info at all - its in breach of several online privacy laws, as well as several countries Privacy Acts, including the USA. They can't act on that info anyhow....If they did, they'd get sued for obtaining info they have no right to.

They have a right to protect their intellectual licences, but NO right what-so-ever to obtain IP addresses from another server and pursue anything with them - unless they want to break several Privacy Act laws.

In fact, its the devs that pursue the intellectual licences and copyright issues with the illegal servers, it has nothing to do with AGE., but again read above. Its not a frigging criminal action for those that log into a server which is classed as breaking copyright laws, since the user isn't breaking any copyright laws (unless they can prove they still have the client s/w installed, but good luck with that since once the server goes down people realize they installed illegal client software just uninstall it and remove it from their systems), its the owner of the server that gets busted sicne they have been in breach of he devs licence to use....and the users just get a letter to their ISP's asking them to forward the 'you have downloaded illegal software, please remove or we will take you to court' notices to you ( there is no info exchanged by the ISP's with the licencee of the s/w, unless they do take them to court, with a court order, etc.....but lmao good luck with that $$$ ...only to find that s/w was un-installed? yea right...i think not, since they have no way to prove the s/w is still installed since the server is gone....).

We don't live in a police state, or dictatorship....people have privacy rights you know and companies are not above those privacy laws even if its online.  

Miss_Lu wrote:

First.. it was a technical not a mentally hint, not to say what you shud do or not. If you agree to the ToS of what? Shaiya u.s. then you play by the rules. Thats ok. I agree. But this doesn´t means shaiya on PS´s are in ALL country´s forbidden. This is common law and you shud know it.

There is still license protection. It is forbidden in all countries if you have a world license. It is true that some countries doesn't give a coin about these laws and that you can be protected if you put a PS online from there. What aeria games can do in this matter is asking for blocking IP access which is possible. fe an USA citizen cannot access a PS server in Sweden because AGE asked for a national block as per law protection in CA.

There are also servers which is illegal but still online. It requires a huge cost to investigate it, bring that person to the court, and such. But don't get the illusion, there has been at least 2 p-servers where the owner got brought to the court and that he/she has to share the visitor's addresses to AGE.

Miss_Lu wrote:

To the second let me break it down for you: You accept the ToS of shaiya u.s. if you play on u.s. servers. What happen if shaiya by AEG runs in different countrys to make money but they don´t respect the low in this country? You got it? How do you call a global player then? Lawbreaker? Arrogant? Thiefs? Tell me... don´t.-.-.- we are aware of it... =P

You don't get the concept. If you are in france, but playing on an english server, then you are protected by the french laws, but aeria games isn't protected by french law. It might do something illegal for your country, but they don't operate in France. So you cannot do something on it.

It is a matter of where the company is operating from. If it's legal in their country of operation, then they might offer the services without problem. If you have a problem with it, you can ask for a national block.