Here is the latest email in regards to ongoing negotiations (Which involves me).
Given I'm not an American citizen I wonder if they would attempt to extradite me. Please take into consider the following line;
Nexon are intending to sue every single one of who post here, all of you. They want to take your personal assets. So for those who told me I was selfish and only cared about myself, hope you can at least see sense.
You're misinterpreting what they're saying.. They're not saying everyone who posts here, but rather everyone who is involved with RaGEZONE. IE. Moderators, Supers, Administrators, etc.
As for you not being an American Citizen, that doesn't matter, you don't think they go through international waters to find educated and specialized lawyers in that field within your Country? That's rather naive to think that.
PS,
Nexon are also wanting physical money to compensate for everything that has happened within the private server development scene, compensation towards all your hard efforts and work. Nexon believe it's their right for them to be payed for every single members, non members, lurkers, leachers and whomever works towards building up any public source code as created by you. Thats right, your work, effort and time and they want to be rewarded by being paid for your own legal work.
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Update;
Realistically I could more than likely put a court case in against Nexon myself for all the slander, false accusations and previous extortion of my old hosting provider (DedicatedNow). I feel violated against my human and legal rights plus all the stress it has caused me. Further more, Nexon have also avoided my terms and conditions via my policy.
Pffftt... Good luck Dan.. Good luck, even if you were to scrounge up the money to file a counter-lawsuit what makes you think you would even come close to winning? For example.. Your lousy (no pun intended) $15,000 for a lawyer and court proceedings is nothing compared to their thousands upon millions of their money invested in this whole Anti-PServer thing they launched.
Further more, unless you
LEGALLY got this whole
"terms and conditions" and
"policy" processed. You can do nothing more than to wipe your butt with those Conditions and Policy. In order to legalize and make official these terms you put into place, you need to hire a lawyer to go through the legal channels, write up these conditions for you. File them with your Government Court Offices and so forth.
It's not as simply as you all think, putting pen to paper and then all of a sudden.. it's
"legal". If that's how the world worked, do you think we'd be in a crisis right now with this whole economy poop? Rather then people taking private money and deals, they'd be putting it back into the economy. (For Example).
Plus I've already said I would remove infringing copyright content, although I would appreciate a civil email from Mr Korn.
Good luck.. You really think he would ever do such a thing? Trust me.. I've tried having normal conversations way back when with him, it's not happening. It's best to just treat him like trash, regardless.
From the looks of it, they really don't have much of a leg (except the fact they have an entire legal department behind them) to stand on.
When I was working on a previous project I had a similar problem, they shouldn't be able to go after your personal assets because of the fact that YOU yourself were not conducting any illegal activity as defined by their terms of service. (Since as you've stated you've never visited their site, nor decompiled their game, etc.) ALSO: You don't host any of the files on your server, do you? They're all hosted on other servers (megaupload, etc.. yes?)
They will ALWAYS throw "we lost money" at you, you need to collect evidence that they wouldn't of received the money specified no matter what. "People who are playing your game will continue to play your game as long as you are satisfying your consumers. Those who play on Emulated Servers are people who would otherwise not play your game 'MapleStory' because they are unsatisfied with it.
You can go about this by taking signed Affidavit from most/all members of the MapleStory section/Ragezone.
You ALSO need to add to your terms of service that anyone working with Nexon (and other companies you don't want to sue you, Sulake, Blizzard, etclol) not be permitted to enter the site and doing so would be breaking your terms of service.
NOTE: Most of the time these are just threats, they figure you'll be scared, just comply, settle, and they're good to go..
Hey himself may have not been conducting "illegal" activity. However, he was condoning and provoking
the work of illegal activity on his site. That in itself holds him in contempt. Don't think it's just that simply...
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Actually we did, which is why Nexon went after RaGEZONE in the first place, although we didn't steal it. It was the BrazilMS files that were stolen due to the very poor security of their dev team. Someone released it on here awhile back and people tried getting it running. So that point I can understand, although... that's... Brazil, not Nexon America. How does he get off thinking he can "sue" for that. I guess I can sue a lawyer in Iraq for my wife here not wearing a shi-bob or w/e the hell that is, over her face.
"Hide yo kids, hide yo wives, and hide yo husbands cuz they rapin errbodys assets out hea"
Shawn.. Although you know by now I agree with most if not all of the things you say, this is something I have to speak up about. You and everyone else need to realize that Nexon is the sole owner of the MapleStory game. They simply
License the game out to certain companies around the world to make it "international" for all regions. For Example:
MapleSEA
Licensed To: AsiaSoft
Owned By: Nexon Korea Inc.
Get what I mean? They have the right to act as they see fit, the licensed companies have nothing to do with such things since they simply are a ... "reseller", so to speak, if you want to look at it in those terms, where as Nexon is the sole owner and take responsibility for court proceedings.
Of course they have jurisdiction anywhere.
