The court of first instance sentenced a woman in her 40s with a suspended sentence of imprisonment for taking unfair profits by using a system error in an online game.
According to the legal community today (26th), Detective 17 of the Seoul Central District Court (Judge Heo Jeong-in) sentenced A (43), who was charged with fraudulent use of computers, etc. He was sentenced to 80 hours of community service.
Mr. A is accused of duplicating game items using an error in the game system from December 2017 to May 2019 and selling them to other game users.
In the game, users are periodically blocked for system service management and service checks are performed, and Mr. A, who found out that an error occurred during this process, copied her items without permission and sold them to other users. is.
In this way, it was revealed that Mr. A took an unfair advantage of 60 million won, and the value of the items copied without permission reached 23 billion won.
The court pointed out, "The defendant not only used some of the duplicated items, but also sold them to other users for economic gain."
He also explained, "At this point in time when the game industry is established as a sports culture, it is necessary to be strict about the acquisition and trading of illegal items in the game."
However, the court said, "It is difficult to deny that the negligence of the server management on the part of the company that suffered the damage had some effect on the expansion of the damage in that the accused repeated the crime after finding out the loophole of the server by chance." sentenced to a suspended sentence of imprisonment.
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