On 01/05/2013 09:15, Collin Howard wrote:
I give this news 1 month to die down and completely disappear and all those who unsubscribed will be back on it and playing. Cold harsh fact.
Perhaps not disappear - I wouldn't be surprised if some individual or group haven't broken one or more computer related laws in whatever jurisdiction they are in - as well as potentially a few in jurisdictions his victims are in. Irrespective of the mob that might decide to sue.
Isn't there some magic $ "damages" number before the states cares though? Hence all the nonsensical "deleting the log file cost us $50m" in high profile hacking cases - just a ruse to up the ante against the culprit.
But yeah, it may not affect ESEA in terms of people playing games, because they will not claim it was the idea of the organisation as a whole. At which point they will be accusing someone of a few more potential crimes against themselves.
Hmm yeah just read their statement. I personally wouldn't touch the accounts - I certainly wouldn't be spending the money (whether it's for charity or not) it's like "we caught our employee doing something illegal and we've decided to spend the proceeds of his crime"
In the UK usually at this point (because it's on the internet) a few random individuals would ring the police and make a complaint (whether or not the "victims" care enough about what happened to do that or not) and the police have to investigate - but it probably is different where he is.
(Although it doesn't sound like a virus. Virus code copies and propagates itself infecting more programs and files and/or other computers, hence the name. It's more like a trojan horse.)
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