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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, @07:42PM (1 child)
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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
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