TheJudge
Utente Jade
Salve a tutti, apro questa discussione per raccogliere e riunire tutte le fonti che per ora sono a noi disponibili. Inoltre vorrei che ognuno esprimesse la sua opinione, quindi:
-No insulti prima di tutto
-No risposte agli altri che la pensano diversamente insultandoli
-Opinioni possibilmente costruttive
Innanzitutto, la parte da cui si mette la TEC nei confronti dei server privati:
Il primo messaggio che è stato inviato da quelli che potrebbero essere i legali dell'azienda:
Quelle che potrebbero essere le segnalazioni fatte:
Distinti saluti.
-No insulti prima di tutto
-No risposte agli altri che la pensano diversamente insultandoli
-Opinioni possibilmente costruttive
Innanzitutto, la parte da cui si mette la TEC nei confronti dei server privati:
Our position on private serversOver the past few weeks, our company TEC Interactive has started to take actions against the owners of certain Metin2 private servers. As we know many of you have played private servers, have friends playing them, or even are or were part of their staff.
Private servers, whatever the justification is, are illegal. The logos, imagery, content, translations and game code of Metin2 are the intellectual property of Ymir Entertainment which require a license for their use, commercial or not. Intellectual property rights are recognized by the laws of virtually every country in the world, with penalties ranging from fines to jailtime depending on the country and severity of the infringement.
Ethically, it is also wrong to freeload on the work of Ymir Entertainment and its licensees which also develop exclusive content -such as TEC Interactive. The creation, development and maintenance of the game requires effort, professional staff and careful organization that don't come for free.
Private servers profit off the work of professional programmers and artists purely for their own economical benefit. Server files are sometimes sold by corrupt employees in the black market for big sums of money. Behind the naive facade of private servers, often lucrative business are carried, involving hacking , money laundring and tax fraud.
Some private server make claims that they are technically legal because they ask for "donations". Only charity and non-profit organizations, following strict government guidelines, are authorized to collect donations. A private server collecting "Donations" still falls under the definition of a commercial enterprise. Legally the claim that you are "collecting donations" and not selling item mall has no value.
Our players have some guidelines and rules to follow when playing our server. Likewise, we have obligations towards you - keep your information secure; give right to appeal on team decisions; keep the server free of hackers, malicious users and corruption of any kind; keep the server uptime to 99%; and so on. We can't delete your account for no reason or wipe out the database. If you stop playing Metin2SG and come back a year later, you will find your account in the same place, with the same items (assuming you haven't shared your passwords obviously). Private servers set their rules for the players, but being illegal have no obligation towards you and can be closed or restarted at any time without prior warning, which happens often.
Another issue is the balance of game. In TEC Interactive, we have content which will be released at a later stage and when the stage of player progress is adequate. Removal of level cap, new maps, new monsters, new items are prepared for future release. Private servers steal this content and make a mockery of the MMORPG genre with huge experience and drop rates that destroy any challenge in the game, and "special items" -often sold for real money or gifted to friends by corrupted GM- that totally unbalance the game.
Another concern for us is the security of your data. Private servers are handed by amateurs who have no legal obligation to keep your information secure. Account information can be sold to third parties, or used to access your accounts in other services, and there is nothing you can do against it.
Some of you may think that the private server scene is just a matter some harmless kids playing. In the most part, yes. But a few servers are managed by adults who have it as their primary source of income. Unlike official servers, they don't pay any license or tax, sometimes amassing big fortunes. Of course, none of this money invested in private servers by their players, will help the development of the game, as it will only fill the pockets of their owners. Licensed servers like Metin2SG pay a royalty to Ymir Entertainment which is invested in the development of new content, thus ensuring the future of the game.
Due to the mind-numbing number of private servers that popped out in the last year, TEC Interactive has started to take action against some notorious ones. We have been answered often with childish arrogance, threats and insults from those private owners when they see their lucrative illegall business endangered. No matter what the response is, we will keep taking action against pirates and freeloaders, because we want that when you spend your money -or your playtime!- in Metin2, the profit goes to the legitimate creators of the game who have worked hard to create the content that is being used by private servers for free.
Il primo messaggio che è stato inviato da quelli che potrebbero essere i legali dell'azienda:
Hi,
We wish to quote the European Copyright Directive, officially the Directive 2001/29/EC of the European Parliament and of the Council of May 22, 2001, on the harmonization of Copyright, a directive of the European Union enacted to implement the WIPO Copyright Treaty, to which the European Union is a party.
On 30 Sep 2011, TEC Interactive have sent out take down notices to LeaseWeb B.V. and WorldStream B.V. to remove the following Metin2 private servers in compliances to the the Dutch Copyright Notice and Takedown Code of Conduct:
1. BambooMT2
2. InfinityMetin
3. LOCMT2
Please note that operating a private server of Metin2 without the authorization from YMIR Entertainment Co., Ltd. is considered a serious offence under the Copyright Law.
Reference notice sent to BambooMT2 in compliances to Takedown Code of Conduct (http://forum.bamboomt2.eu/index.php?...threadID=59117)
Regards,
Legal
TEC Interactive Pte Ltd
33 Ubi Avenue 3 #08-38 VerTex Tower A Singapore 408868
Quelle che potrebbero essere le segnalazioni fatte:
Here is a reply from LeaseWeb to take down BambooMT2.
Thanks for your mail to [email protected]. We have processed your mail and contacted our customer with a request to review your complaint and take appropriate action.
We have closed this ticket.
Kind Regards,
LeaseWeb Security, Abuse and Incident response Team.
LeaseWeb B.V.
P.O. Box 93054
1090 BB Amsterdam
The Netherlands
Here is a reply from WorldStream to take down LOCMT2.
Dear,
All IPs will be blocked within 480 minuts.
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Met vriendelijke groet / Kind regards,
Dirk Vromans
Abuse Department
Worldstream C.V.
Honderdland 111-F
2676LT MAASDIJK
As for InfinityMetin, a mail has been sent from TEC Interactive to [email protected] since 14 hours ago. Failure to reply with a resolution on the take down notice within 24hours and we would address the issue to LeaseWeb for necessary action to contact their client for the removal of InfinityMetin.
Regards,
Legal
TEC Interactive Pte Ltd
Distinti saluti.

? comunque non penso che li chiudono (da parte mia: mai sentito la ymir che chiude i pserver)
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