Seriously, don’t do it. The KGBwillfind you, and theywillbreak your legs before sending you to jail for three years for tampering withRagnarok Online‘s original code.
Ok, maybeOSP Internationalisn’t reporting the guy’s broken legs, but I’m pretty sure we can take that as a given. More importantly, how didRO, that cheeky Korean MMO that continues to keep every country east of the U.S. in its spritey clutches, get connected to the Russianmafia?
Sweeping, ethnocentric generalizations andnon sequitursaside, Moscow native Valentin Kiseliov faces up to 3 years in a gulag for violating Russian copyright law — specifically, article 145, part 3, paragraph ‘in’.GRAVITY,RO‘s publisher is accusing Comrade Kaseliov of using official code to emulate anROserver. Kiseliov claims, in turn, that he wrote all of the code from scratch, and that he really would like for someone to apologize for shattering his tibia.
But seriously, any country that uses prepositions as section markers in their penal code has way bigger problems than some guy’s emulator.
Editor’s note: I pride myself on having been able to avoid all “In Soviet Russia … ” jokes, and I didn’t name-drop Friedrich Engels. Not even one, single time.
[Big ol’ thanks to Buck F1tches, who isn’t nearly as misogynistic as his name, and to the lovelyBeedog Studiosfor its fine, fine artwork.]
