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Posted - 2007.06.13 02:39:00 -
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 Originally by: Waterfowl Democracy
Originally by: Dark Shikari
Edited by: Dark Shikari on 13/06/2007 00:40:21
Originally by: Waterfowl Democracy
Originally by: CCP kieron
As I stated earlier in this thread, CCP is not ruling out the possibility of legal recourse against the leak and it is premature to make any sort of announcement concerning this avenue of action to the community.
Just like when you threatened legal action against the people who posted on these forums in what you judged a DDOS style attack? You certainly didn't waste time in that case. But that's totally different right, people posting on your message board is much more serious THAN A MEMBER OF YOUR STAFF RELEASING 6 MONTHS WORTH OF EMAILS CONTAINING REAL NAMES, PHONE NUMBERS, ACCOUNT NAMES AND OTHER SUNDRY INFORMATION.
Ever thought that they really didn't care one ounce about your threadnought, and that the threat of lawsuit was against those who had intentionally defamed the company?
And the email logs released did not have phone numbers, account names or any other information; just a few real names from email headers and email addresses. And it was 10 months, not 6.
"The allegations investigated above by this internal affairs department will also be examined by our legal resources, as we do not intend to sit idly by while our servers, community and reputation are under attack."
This statement implies that they are investigating legal recourse against people for posting and apparently causing damage to the servers.
I'm reposting this because it seems that some mods have forgotten how to use *snip* and instead just delete posts (despite in the past it being claimed that CCP doesn't delete posts).
The major differences between the two is that when CCP threatens in the first case they know nothing can or will happen from it, but the threat alone could 1) prevent it from happening again and 2) gives the perception that they are actually doing something about the offense. In this case however, if they open up the floodgate to try and prosecute the offender, they also open up the floodgates to their own lax policies which allowed the privacy breach to occur in the first place.
Essentially CCP lawyers are most likely at work right now determining how culpable they themselves are to what occured (ie on par with credit card companies or internet service providers not securing their info) and if any of the information released puts them at jeopardy themselves. If they determine it is not, they might move forward. If they determine they are, they will probably do whatever it takes to appease any customers who might feel 'violated' and let the whole matter drop there (of course after changing their internal policies to make sure it doesnt happen again).
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