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posted by martyb on Monday December 10 2018, @05:47PM   Printer-friendly
from the play-your-own-game dept.

South Korea criminalizes 'boosting' with new law

Boosting — basically one person playing on another's account to rank them up — is going to be a criminal offense in South Korea with some stiff punishments awaiting the booster.

The new measure comes courtesy of an amendment to the country's Game Industry Promotion Act, reports The Daily Dot. That law was passed in June 2017. This new measure was developed in collaboration with the video games industry in the country and will punish boosters with a fine of up to 20 million won, which is roughly $18,000. They also get a two-year suspended prison sentence.

[...] The act goes into effect in six months, and defines a "proxy game" as "an act that interferes with the normal operation of the game by arranging or providing the service to acquire the score or performance of the game in a way that is not approved by the game-related business operated."

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  • (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Monday December 10 2018, @05:54PM (16 children)

    by Anonymous Coward on Monday December 10 2018, @05:54PM (#772444)

    The great wealth generated by Western models of civilization has funded the rise of old-world Authoritarians.

    We are slowly but surely returning to a very dark time in societal organization.

  • (Score: 4, Insightful) by Anonymous Coward on Monday December 10 2018, @06:24PM (15 children)

    by Anonymous Coward on Monday December 10 2018, @06:24PM (#772466)

    Human society evolves in cycles and we just keep praying that we make it through enough iterations that we reach a more stable point.

    The problem is that every new human starts with zero knowledge, and everything they learn and experience is a part of whatever society they are born into.

    The tyranny of yesterday is just a memory, and the problems of today must be solved, but once society has gotten itself out of a tyrannical system the next generation can no longer quite grasp the really important lessons from the last cycle.

    The thin veneer of civilization is the collective work of humanity and the only safeguard against tyranny. We have to record these lessons and teach them to each generation hoping that THIS time our societal safeguards against tyranny work better.

    Your statement sounds like an ignorant narcissistic tribal war cry.

    • (Score: 1, Informative) by Anonymous Coward on Monday December 10 2018, @06:39PM (7 children)

      by Anonymous Coward on Monday December 10 2018, @06:39PM (#772478)

      You're saying exactly the same thing as your parent, only with a lot more verbiage.

      • (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Monday December 10 2018, @07:12PM (6 children)

        by Anonymous Coward on Monday December 10 2018, @07:12PM (#772494)

        No I am not, the OP is trying to say Western nations are great and it is their greatness that has allowed 3rd world countries to become tyrannical. It is closer to the reverse, the Western nations worked very hard to prevent freedom from developing in many nations in order to get governments that were more friendly to Western business interests.

        I am saying it is a natural evolution of society, cycles of freedom and tyranny as generations figure it out for themselves.

        I know, small words and simple concepts are preferable but they aren't always enough.

        • (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Monday December 10 2018, @07:18PM (4 children)

          by Anonymous Coward on Monday December 10 2018, @07:18PM (#772496)

          You are merely expanding on what he said, there was no disagreement until you pointed at him and said he had a small penis*.

          *paraphrasing

          • (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Monday December 10 2018, @07:27PM (2 children)

            by Anonymous Coward on Monday December 10 2018, @07:27PM (#772500)

            No I am not. I am entirely disagreeing with the viewpoint that Western wealth has created old-world tyrannies. I find that statement to be quite ignorant and contains a bias of superiority. "The West" should be looking to solve its own problems with tyranny before creating scapegoats that let us pretend we are perfect.

            I another reply I mentioned the fact that Western nations have been busy overthrowing legitimate governments and easing the spread of tyranny. Maybe that is what the OP was going for but phrased it badly? I'm not saying blame everything on the West, but the idea that the West created wealth and other countries fucked it up is... stupid.

            "Your statement sounds like an ignorant narcissistic tribal war cry." != "small penis"

            No need to engage a topic when you simply boil it down to nonsense huh?

            • (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Monday December 10 2018, @07:42PM (1 child)

              by Anonymous Coward on Monday December 10 2018, @07:42PM (#772508)

              Ah. Your point is a straw man.

              The OP never said the West is the best; the OP merely said that the Western models for civilization generate a lot of wealth, and this wealth is now funding the rise of ancient authoritarianism.

              So, the West figured out how to generate wealth (namely, capitalism), but cultures around the world (including in the West, I'd say) seem unwilling to give themselves over completely to capitalism—there are ancient, parasitical strains of authoritarianism that are content to use that wealth in ways that directly impinge on the very principles which have made society so prosperous.

              • (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Monday December 10 2018, @07:55PM

                by Anonymous Coward on Monday December 10 2018, @07:55PM (#772519)

                You tricked him into saying "no I am not" repeatedly. He's GONE!! Wonder where he went, though. To hell? To Mexico? Back to his daddy's skid-marked shorts?

          • (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Monday December 10 2018, @08:00PM

            by Anonymous Coward on Monday December 10 2018, @08:00PM (#772523)

            Hyuck! Vienna sausage fest!

        • (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Monday December 10 2018, @07:45PM

          by Anonymous Coward on Monday December 10 2018, @07:45PM (#772512)

          Western nations are great and it is their greatness that has allowed 3rd world countries to become tyrannical.

          Well, Trump. Trump gave a thrashing to that little punk to the north of Korea. Now, Korea has the leisure to be concerned over such frivolities as "boosting".

    • (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Monday December 10 2018, @06:39PM (6 children)

      by Anonymous Coward on Monday December 10 2018, @06:39PM (#772479)

      You seem to be using several words whose meanings you don't understand. For starters, "civilization" doesn't care one whit about "tyranny". You apparently confuse civilization with culture, then confuse both with government.

      • (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Monday December 10 2018, @07:19PM (5 children)

        by Anonymous Coward on Monday December 10 2018, @07:19PM (#772499)

        Civilization contains culture and government.

        I never said civilization cares about anything, I said it was the only safeguard we have against tyranny but that doesn't mean a civilization can't become tyrannical. I am not confusing anything, you just seem to be grasping at straws to discredit my statement.

        • (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Monday December 10 2018, @07:46PM (4 children)

          by Anonymous Coward on Monday December 10 2018, @07:46PM (#772514)

          Indeed, anarchists (i.e., capitalists) are of the mind that Civilization requires the removal of government (where "government" is the name of any organization that allocates resources by coercion rather than agreement in advance).

          In short, they say "You can have rulers or rules, but not both."

          This is a fundamental point which you can't ignore.

          • (Score: 4, Touché) by Azuma Hazuki on Tuesday December 11 2018, @12:36AM (2 children)

            by Azuma Hazuki (5086) on Tuesday December 11 2018, @12:36AM (#772671) Journal

            I'm all on board with that, just point me to the infinite stack of contract-enforcing angels :)

            --
            I am "that girl" your mother warned you about...
            • (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday December 12 2018, @09:20PM (1 child)

              by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday December 12 2018, @09:20PM (#773687)

              Men are not angels => government is an even worse idea than you thought.

              • (Score: 2) by Azuma Hazuki on Thursday December 13 2018, @01:56AM

                by Azuma Hazuki (5086) on Thursday December 13 2018, @01:56AM (#773835) Journal

                So who enforces the contracts then...?

                --
                I am "that girl" your mother warned you about...
          • (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday December 11 2018, @02:16AM

            by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday December 11 2018, @02:16AM (#772717)

            Good troll, well done *golf clap*