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South Korea Criminalizes "Boosting" (Playing on Another Person's Game Account)

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

takyon writes:

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: 2) by c0lo on Monday December 10 2018, @11:56PM (2 children)

    by c0lo (156) Subscriber Badge on Monday December 10 2018, @11:56PM (#772644) Journal

    Add politics to your list. Equally inconsequential, I bet generates even more "Sturm and Drang" than religion.

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  • (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday December 11 2018, @05:42PM (1 child)

    by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday December 11 2018, @05:42PM (#772956)

    Add politics to your list. Equally inconsequential, I bet generates even more "Sturm and Drang" than religion.

    Politics? Inconsequential? I can assure you that the decisions politicians make definitely do have consequences for just about everyone's life. Hence the problem.

    • (Score: 2) by c0lo on Tuesday December 11 2018, @10:41PM

      by c0lo (156) Subscriber Badge on Tuesday December 11 2018, @10:41PM (#773148) Journal

      Has discussions about it brought anything of value lately?

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