Oh noes! The polish authorities are going to get me

But then they'll read the EULA and learn that everything in Eve is the property of CCP and they really don't give a crap about those pixels

Doesn't matter what the EULA reads. It's virtual currency and virtual goods.

It has been considered that virtual goods should be treated in much the same way as real goods, because after all, you have paid real money for it.

As for 4 titans getting blown up / stolen, tough ****, shouldn't have given out the toons details to anyone should they. I recall this practice is against the rules and should be laughed at by CCP.

Reporting Titan theft to the cops...and I thought whining to CCP was bad.

It has been considered that virtual goods should be treated in much the same way as real goods, because after all, you have paid real money for it.

As for 4 titans getting blown up / stolen, tough ****, shouldn't have given out the toons details to anyone should they. I recall this practice is against the rules and should be laughed at by CCP.

Also, I'd like to see this story he makes a claim of where someone was arrested and convicted for stealing in-game items from another player in WoW. I'd like to see what he was allegedly charged with.

The closest I can recall was in runescape where 2 teenagers where arrested for stealing goods in a game. The whole gaming community freaked out until it was revealed that they had come with a laptop and at knife point forced another kid to log into the game and hand over all his in game things.


The thing to remember is that no authority will start an investigation on something that happened only in game. They cannot petition CCP for the IP address of the offender without an actual crime and even then it's going to be hard to do across national borders.


If the police does indeed start working on a matter then it's very likely that there was a real life connection between the perpetrator and the victim that is yet to be revealed.


As for the article. Pointless boasting.

The stealing of the ships mean nothing but sharing the accounts of the titan pilots accounts and misuse of other people's accounts is a different matter. They won't get the titans back though.

The real question is the violation of EULA that allowed someone to log into the holding toons.

Assuming one exists, I agree. However, I wouldn't be surprised if it was just a well-done corp heist by a director.

I'd just like to point out that there's a page in Account Management called "Activity Log" which shows the time, date and IP of every instance of the account being logged in. So that's how they got the login stats (assuming the COVEN story to be true!)

https://secure.eveonline.com/LoginHistory.aspx

Ths kinda reminds me of that thread where a guy got ganked while doing a courior contract through low sec using bought isk(PLEX) as collateral and claimed to have reported it to the police and his commanding officer in the Army.

Reporting Titan theft to the cops...and I thought whining to CCP was bad.

I doubt anyone would care about the stolen titans, but (judging by the story) the way they were stolen could definitely put them on the wrong side of the law. I'm not familiar with Polish statutes but in the US, logging into an account without authorization like that could easily put someone on the wrong side of the computer fraud and abuse act.

That's just too pathetic to be true

Reporting Titan theft to the cops...and I thought whining to CCP was bad.