ItsAllZerosAndOnes

It's illegal as hell.

1: He didn't have an operations license to use that game engine from Jagex. Those tend to run anywhere from $15k-25k A YEAR. I'm sure this kid made money, but not the 90k+ to sustain it legally.

2: The only reason he hasn't been arrested is because of where he's based out of. The Netherlands really doesn't care about piracy at the level that other countries do....

3: Most importantly, I'm sure he has a warrant out for his arrest in a couple of countries. This is likely why "So many people" come to him, rather than the other way around. He knows that if he comes to the states; he wouldn't make it out of the airport without handcuffs.

Note: I attempted to run a Lineage II private server in 2006, which became semi-popular for a short time. After two emails from NCSoft and a certified letter from their law office, I considered shutting it down. When the FBI came to my job, asking about my involvement in it, that helped accelerate my decision on its future.

This young man should be lucky he lives where he lives. He'd be a prisoner right now anywhere else.

Hey, thanks for the AMA.

You're a gamer, a family man and a librarian in the Heartland, (despite current events, naturally). Your older kids probably have friends who think that you're the 'stereotype TV dad.'

What would be the craziest thing you've discovered between the pages of a returned book?

Tell that to the following defendants:

• Edelman v. N2H2
• RealNetworks, Inc. v. DVD Copy Control Association, Inc.
• Viacom Inc. v. YouTube, Google Inc.
• IO Group, Inc. v. Veoh Networks, Inc.
• Vernor v. Autodesk, Inc.
• Lenz v. Universal Music Corp.
• Flava Works Inc. v. Gunter
• Ouellette v. Viacom International Inc.
• Sony v. George Hotz

Sounds like he needs to haul ass back to the Netherlands before the FBI gets involved.

IIRC, they don't even get notified unless the company has been defrauded by over $10,000 over X amount of years. Pretty sure this youngster exceeded that.

Good afternoon, and thanks for hosting this AMA. Admittedly, I've only recently heard of your foundation within the past couple of years, but I have to say that it didn't require much convincing on your part to convert me to be one of the proverbial masses.

You said, "Ask Us Anything," so here's my Anything question.

There was an article posted the other day involving a Senator (Mike Rogers, I believe it was) making a claim that Edward Snowden should be brought up on murder charges, claiming that some of the logistics in those documents revealed the positions of troops that were ultimately ambushed by the enemy.

I'd like to know all of your thoughts on this claim. Also, are they called Pancakes where you live or are they Flapjacks?

:edit: Grammar. One more cup of coffee should fix my typo syndrome.