Kistilan wrote on Aug 14
th, 2020 at 11:23pm:
Let me explain the claims you'll be defending if you dupe items and sell them for profit, per my earlier citations.
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1. Copyright is infringed upon by duplicating an item that is digitally copyrighted in the game.
That's not how copyrights work. Again: less knowledge of the law than a tub of moldy sour cream.
Kistilan wrote on Aug 14
th, 2020 at 11:23pm:
2. You are profiting by selling the items, explicitly forbidden in the Turbine TOS I read and the cases I cited including the 14 yr old Fortnite kid very much reinforce this notion of a positive claim against defendant that will be found valid.
A. Turbine does not own DDO. It was sold to Standing Stone Games. Turbine's TOS means all of jack and shit in this argument.
B. SSG's TOS is not a legally-binding contract and the ONLY thing Standing Stone Games can do if you violate it is ban you from the game.
C. The crime committed in the case you keep citing involved editing source code. Since this is the second or third time this has had to be pointed out to you, obviously that means you are way too stupid to understand how that's different. I'd give you an example, but I can't think of one simple enough for your to understand.
Kistilan wrote on Aug 14
th, 2020 at 11:23pm:
3. The kid's age helped him get his $150K pending judgment (that his parents were appointed guardianship over) reduced significantly in arbitration. What that is, I don't know, but I sure know it was $5 and probably not $500. The lowest I could see is $5K and it was probably something more like $15,000, which the kid had in his bank account through the youtube monetization.
The case was settled out of court because Epic Games could not have won it as what the kid did is not what is called an "Actionable offense", IE not something they could actually sue over. Now, this is America, anyone can file a lawsuit against anyone for any reason, whether or not they have anything that remotely resembles a legal case. A company like Epic can afford to dumb hundreds of thousands of dollars into a case like that, and whether or not the court finds in their favor does not matter to the kid's family, because they will have been buried in tens of thousands of dollars in legal fees. They settled "out of court" to avoid GOING to court and thus substantially cut down on the legal fees.
We will never know what the settlement was, but I can bet you it was probably something along the lines of "take down the website and sign a paper saying you won't do it again". Because, again, what he did isn't actually breaking the law.
Kistilan wrote on Aug 14
th, 2020 at 11:23pm:
4. I'm assuming most of you are not 14 and are indeed 35-46 since we've all been in the same circle/game for 10+ years and most of you started playing in your twenties or early thirties.
I would remind you what they say about the word "assume", but you're already an ass. I'm one, too, but still.
Kistilan wrote on Aug 14
th, 2020 at 11:23pm:
5. I do not expect a judge to be lenient on unethical, middle-aged men for breaking TOS explicitly, mocking it on alternate forums and mocking the company in general on the alternate forums repeatedly.
A judge was never involved in that case. See: "less knowledge of the law than a tub of moldy sour cream".
Listen, dumb-dumb: "settled out of court" means "A judge was not involved". You're going to learn this the hard way when whatever lawyer cheats you out of the money you stole by pretending to be a veteran "settles out of court" with strake's much better layer and gets you to sign a letter saying you're sorry for being a butt-wipe so that Strake doesn't counter-sue you.
Kistilan wrote on Aug 14
th, 2020 at 11:23pm:
Every yuck here costs you.
No, I'm pretty sure laughing at you is free.