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: 4, Touché) by Azuma Hazuki on Tuesday December 11 2018, @12:36AM (2 children)
I'm all on board with that, just point me to the infinite stack of contract-enforcing angels :)
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(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday December 12 2018, @09:20PM (1 child)
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
So who enforces the contracts then...?
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