Blackmailing people into doing stuff that they wouldn't do otherwise in the RL world is a criminal offence.

tbh that sounds disgusting and low even by eve standards, using the plight of a RL catastrophe to bully your way in a game is the word of bottom feeders and scum of a other level

Nothing at all positive comes for the charity drive from this approach

And it is, of course, blackmail. Do x or you will suffer negative consequences y is just what blackmail is.

Now, that's absolutely fine in EvE but this the PFG initiative has one foot in EvE and one foot in the real world so particular care has to be taken with associating behaviours that are unacceptable in the real world but fine in EvE with it.

You are being serious, are you ?

Blackmail is an act, often a crime, involving unjustified threats to make a gain or cause loss to another unless a demand is met.[1][2] It may be defined as coercion involving threats of physical harm, threat of criminal prosecution, or threats for the purposes of taking the person's money or property.

source: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Blackmail

So it's ok to squeeze it out of people as long as you the agressor thinks it's for a good cause?

False analogy, ad hominem

"Give me your Real Life adress or i will Harass you to no end."

"Give me 3 billion or i will make jokes about on Fanfest in a public Presentation and suggest that you should kill yourself"

"Give me this or i'll ******* murder you in real life"

Eh, yes ? Do you like to punch yourself in the face ? That is exactly the point that was made against you.

Sucks for you that your NPC corp doesn't offer you any exitement of the player created kind.

The difference is one is in game, the other is blackmailing for a real life action. In game is only meant to affect in game, not actual life. This sounds like it's an EULA violation to me in that area.

This is however not being charged with Isk Falcon.
Which changes it.
They are being demanded to pay a plex for good, not simply a random ISK ransom.

So is it now allowed to demand payment to a real life organisation? I didn't think such real world transactions were permitted

There are no grey areas here.

Yeah! Finally you've struck down a morally low person such as i! We shall celebrate it on the plaza by hanging them high. Because all i ever wanted is to halt the good of mankind, I'm glad we finally cleared this up because the whole topic is just THAT simple, unfortunately i was to dumb to see it. I'm so glad the world is just black and white. Unfortunately i ended up on the black side of the spectrum.

I just thrive on forum drama.
- by Riot Girl - at 2013.11.28 04:46:00

If obtaining money (PLEX an in game poker chip, arcade token, in-store credit) is now a go ahead. Can a pirate ransom you and your stuff or corp stuff or character (for all I care) for PLEX now?

Do you see a difference between plex and isk?