The guy literally never undocks. There is nothing TO do about it; the game prevents it.

I find it interesting how people justify his actions regardless of them being allowed or not by game policy yet these same individuals would have probally acted in the same fashion had this happened to them.

food for thought the the german populous drank the **** koolaid to and look what it got them. just because something is legally okay doesn't make it morally right.

Its irrelevant. Mail him and ask yourself if you wish for an answer to that question.

None of what happened in the TS "Bonus Room" is any of CCPs concern or business.

What is of concern to CCP and the community at large, is Erotica1s activities of actively predating on the community for victims with ingame scams that he extends to OUTSIDE THE GAME.

You cant do that. Its against the EULA.

Scams are fine within the game, it is NOT ok to scam people OUTSIDE the game.

Yeah, that was pretty funny.

I do wonder what Ripard is up to, though. Clearly he's trying to force a confrontation with CCP on the matter by trying a media blitz after his own fashion. As evidenced by his use of as much hot button, inflamatory, charged language as he can shovel into his blog.

Did he just not get his way on something, and is throwing this tantrum now?

There is also a section in the EULA which deals with criminal acts. Recording and publishing information that should be private, as in private conversations is defamation, is a breach of privacy. You cannot record a private conversation and publish that conversation on the EvE forums without breaking the law. The person must be told they are being recorded and the person must give consent to that recording being published.

I'm a qualified paralegal.

CCP has a legal obligation to maximize profit. Agree or not, that's the way it is.

I also wonder how it is possible that so vulnerable people can be playing EVE online.

Consent is only valid if its given freely and without coercion. Since the method is to remove a persons virtual property and using that as a means of obtaining the consent that consent is not given freely and so its voided.

Because it happens outside of the game, (and even if it happens inside it) all local and international rules, regulations and laws apply.

As I have demonstrated earlier in this thread, if any of the victims wish to make a police report on how they where treated in the TS, and/or how they where coerced into that TS, that is their prerogative. Good luck as a defendant explaining to a Judge or Jury that:
"Well, your Honor, it was a scam...!"
The hammer will drop on you instantly.

There is so much legally wrong with what Erotica1 is doing that imo it could potentially be prosecuted as any number of crimes.

Some of you seem to have forgotten where the difference between the game and reality is.

You can't go around scamming people IRL, as you do in EVE. Which is exactly what this "Bonus Room" is.
There is a massive set of complex systems that you can't even begin to imagine without years of legal studies which prevent you, me and everyone else from doing so.

Its a huge legal liability for CCP too, because who knows what could potentially culminate out of this degree of OUT OF GAME abuse of other players, including someone getting physically hurt or at worst some nut showing up to a Fanfest with a home-made pipebomb.

Just drop the garbage. The majority of the community does not want this kind of **** in their EVE experience.

I have no idea about your bitcoins. There are exceptions to consent and coercion. Banks requiring you to sign a contract which gives them right to penalize you with late fee's or otherwise not allowing you to open an account I guess is coercion. Even though you don't agree with the late fee's being unable to open an account, which is a requirement to live coerces you into signing the agreement for example.

But I don't think that applies to the consent to publish embarrassing and humiliating material on a public forum or you lose all your stuff. I think that'd be a hard one to get past a magistrate or judge if you were sued.

But a private organization has every right to do that.

First off, the EULA is not the only set of "rules" that define who or what can be said and done in game. Human decency trumps anything that a set of lawyers dreamed up, and in their worst nightmares, no one could imagine the abomination we are discussing now. CCP also is a private company, and can toss any customer they like, for any reason they like, whenever they like. Frankly, I expect one of the cartel members to ban me from the game soon enough.

So just stuff your crap about the EULA and how it is some writing on some stone tablets that the players and CCP must live by, forever, unchanging, and anything not covered in the EULA must be allowed to continue.

And BTW, absolutely, this slime IS being targeted and singled out. Nothing wrong with that at all. If CCP makes a very public example of him, that will have the desired chilling effect on the psychopaths like him, hopefully. There is always a first perpetrator convicted of a new law. And yes, it does not matter that the "law" is not written in the EULA. Common decency trumps that by a mile. CCP can change the EULA after the fact, or not at all.

Humans should not need some idiotic words massaged by some lawyer to know right from wrong, and how to behave in society, even if that society is a cutthroat game.

No. Today you learned how community has had enough BS, and decided to police itself. Get with the program or leave.

By the way, only E1 will take the fall for this if you play your cards right. You should jump ship while you can. Delete all your posts, and lay low.

No, I'm quite serious.

You guys figured you where so smart with all this, and got all the angles covered, but you've left so many gaping holes in it all that bespeak the basic stupidity of its architects.

I'm genuinely disappointed. Just as well that the whole house of cards falls around your ears.
It was poorly constructed to begin with.

I was hoping for a challenge to the authenticity.

Erotica 1/Beancounter Jaynara posting about other activities (to link the two people together)

The first post, bragging about almost getting someone to smear themselves in mayo.
The second post, proudly sharing the pics of someone's girlfriend.