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Lineage III Source Code Stolen?

Posted by Zonk on from the a-whole-world-down-the-tubes dept.

Shack News and the Korean newspaper Chosun Ilbo are reporting that sourcecode for the MMOG Lineage III may have been stolen. As the third Massively Multiplayer game in a huge-selling South Korean series released by publisher NCSoft, over a billion dollars may be lost as a result of this theft. "The Seoul Metropolitan Police said Wednesday that seven former NCsoft employees are suspected of having sold the technology to a major Japanese game company. The seven left the Korean firm in February and allowed the Japanese company to review the software during a job interview. Police believe that the technology might have been copied during the demonstration."

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  1. Re:Wow. by textstring · · Score: 2, Funny

    must be that exchange rate
    thanks for the laugh

  2. hmm by nomadic · · Score: 2, Funny

    Now Japan is copying Korean technology? Talk about turnabout...

  3. Re:Uh by MBGMorden · · Score: 2, Funny

    Kinda hypocritical. Either you can "steal" a piece of information or you can't. Bringing in "states" and "unpublished" is needless and only serves to vilify one type of copying ("They stole teh codez!"), while condoning another ("I just got Spiderman 3 for free off Bittorrent!").

    Now, I'm fairly anti-copyright myself anyways, but I say lets hold the same attitude in all cases. Information wants to be free right? Well then these guys were information rights activists. Those guys at NCSoft were probably performing all manner of crazy experiments on this code. I've heard from one person that semaphores may have even been involved. Twisted bastards.

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    "People who think they know everything are very annoying to those of us who do."-Mark Twain
  4. Oh No! by Alzheimers · · Score: 2, Funny

    Now Slugworth will be able to produce an inferior and cheaper version of the Everlasting Gobstopper!