The link, repeated below, seems to say that they only have to notify police if they are made aware of possible access, I suppose it's not so bad if all they have to do is forward the url to the coppers, but I wouldn't be surprised if there was more to it.
"Under the new laws, an ISP or ICH will face penalties of $11,000 for the individual and $55,000 for body corporates if they are made aware that their service can be used to access material that they have reasonable grounds to believe is child pornography or child abuse material and they do not refer details of that material to the AFP within a reasonable time."
However it still makes no sense to for them to ban
noCD cracks, unless the idea is to increase the immersiveness of the game by creating a real-life mirrors of some of its themes:
"Our benefactors want us to control our instincts
to protect our expensive piece of plastic by
using a noCD crack..."
If they really did trash accounts using a noCD crack, Vivendi should sue them for devaluing the CD version, unless Vivendi were the ones who put them up to it in the first place, which seems unlikely (surely even game distributors aren't actually that stupid).
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The link, repeated below, seems to say that they only have to notify police if they are made aware of possible access, I suppose it's not so bad if all they have to do is forward the url to the coppers, but I wouldn't be surprised if there was more to it. "Under the new laws, an ISP or ICH will face penalties of $11,000 for the individual and $55,000 for body corporates if they are made aware that their service can be used to access material that they have reasonable grounds to believe is child pornography or child abuse material and they do not refer details of that material to the AFP within a reasonable time."
However it still makes no sense to for them to ban noCD cracks, unless the idea is to increase the immersiveness of the game by creating a real-life mirrors of some of its themes: "Our benefactors want us to control our instincts to protect our expensive piece of plastic by using a noCD crack ..."
If they really did trash accounts using a noCD crack, Vivendi should sue them for devaluing the CD version, unless Vivendi were the ones who put them up to it in the first place, which seems unlikely (surely even game distributors aren't actually that stupid).