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Sparks Talks About KryptoDEV Lawsuit
Aleks Manov, more commonly known by his alias Sparks, recently made several posts on the popular MMORPG server development forum, RaGEZONE, discussing his current lawsuit against Nexon America. Sparks is infamous in the MapleStory community for running and creating the MapleStory private server development forum, KryptoDEV, which was first sued by Nexon over two years ago on February 2010.
Sparks’ original post:
Hey there everyone,
I’ve got a few PM’s asking how my court went. Well, I hope this can be considered more of a discussion rather then spam but with that said, let me say this.
I was mistaken and the court date was actually April 18th (not the 1st as I think I mentioned in 1 thread on here). Which yes, hasn’t arrived yet. April 18th is a Wednesday for me and I’m flying out this Tuesday April 17th at 7:35 EST my flight leaves from Toronto, ON to Vancouver, BC (5 hour flight … Boring) for the Trial Hearing. I will be leaving BC on April 20th at 11:35PM (PST) and arriving on Saturday at 7AM EST
I do not know if everything will be settled on Wednesday as far as the case goes, there may be following hearings but Read the rest of this entry
CocaColaStory Reopens
CocaColaStory shocked players in the private server community today when they reopened their doors. ‘CokeStory,’ as they’re commonly referred to, received a DMCA notice from Nexon Korea in early July. Their site is currently under construction but we can expect updates in the coming days. We have yet to receive a comment from CocaColaStory.
MapleGeek Returns
Maple Geek, a MapleStory private server that closed in August 2008 because of internal conflicts has announced they will be re-opening their doors.
MapleGeek.com:
Hello Geek, as you may already know MapleGeek closed due to some problems and false rumors caused by some people. We have decided to re-open our doors once again, but there will be new changes coming out within the next couple of weeks and months.
MapleGeek will be opening a brand new community. All members are required to re-register and we will slowly try to integrate the old MapleGeek.
If you received a newsletter from us, that means you are one of our old members and are more than welcome to join us again. You will be put in a special group as a reward for returning. Please keep in mind that we sent out around 80,000 messages. It will take time to get every old member into their special group.
Now that we have most of the information clear out, all you have to do is click community to join us.
At a time when NEXON is taking down servers left and right, it seems as bad a time as any to re-open a private server. Maple Geek has put a big red target on their back. It looks like they’re asking for trouble.
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MapleGlobal's Turn For A Huge Update
Asia Soft wow’d players in Singapore and Malaysia with the release of MapleStory Episode 2 for MapleSEA. Asia Soft has long been respected as a company that cares about their users and brings decent content. NEXON has received an increasing amount of criticism ever since NX Games and Wizet became NEXON America. Many users have expressed a feeling of dissatisfaction and annoyance with the company and their maintenance of MapleGlobal.
The release of Pirates to MapleGlobal brought many users (especially veterans) back to the game and interested many new users. It gave many dissatisifed maplers a feeling of excitement and somewhat raised NEXON America’s likability and street cred among the public. With exciting new events, temporary EXP increases, and new content the community is beginning to “warm up” to the multi-million dollar company. However, when NEXON declared War on Private Servers, things began to change.
The ongoing war between NEXON (Korea and America) has created a dividing line. You’re either on the private server side, or NEXON’s side. This has created a large amount of animosity towards NEXON and their employees (especially their General Counsel, Mr. Korn). Threats, insults, and strange e-mails flood forums, websites, and e-mail inboxes. The fire continues to burn brighter as more servers are shut down and more people become unhappy. No one can see a definite end in sight, but it will definitely go out with a bang.
Many peg Asia Soft’s MapleStory Episode 2 as a ploy to gain more users. Much of the content could have been achieved in one large patch. Many users (especially in MapleGlobal) believe that NEXON may be able to pull off a large update, without having to add the title Episode 2 to the mix. Many summer events such as the E X PLOSION! has brought users back to the game and the increasing amount of events, especially GM events, have drawn some private server users.
It remains to be seen what NEXON America has in store for MapleGlobal this summer. There are three months of water balloons, bathing suits, and fun in the sun. I’m sure they can figure something out.
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CareStory History And Underground Plans Foiled
UPDATE: CareStory removed Lloyd Korn’s forum comment to try and cover everything up. I signed up on their forums and said something linking to this page and was later banned. I definitely smell a lawsuit. Proof is below.
CareStory received a DMCA on February 27, 2009. The assumed that the terms meant that they just had to remove MapleStory related images and that they could just go underground.
Originally Posted by MakeOkay, so ikorn (nexon’s lawyer) sent a DMCA to our website host
Hostgator.they freezed my whole account and all the websites goed boom.
But, good news are, Carestory aint shutting down.
We are going xtremely underground now.The only thing they said was the Maplestory graphics, so they will be removed.
You can invite friends if you like.
They were wrong.
Today Lloyd Korn posted on their DMCA thread on the CareStory forums under the username “lulz123″. Yes, it is confirmed that it really was him. Lloyd Korn told them of his “green light” to go ahead and sue a few MapleStory Private Servers. Check out his post below.
Hey Makey,
It’s Lloyd Korn! Guess what? Don’t even think about going underground. I have people e-mailing all day about you and your plans. Alot of them are people on this board who you think you can trust.
As you know, I’ve been given the green light to sue a few private servers. The fact that your site is still up makes you a prime candidate.
You therefore have until the end of the day to shut down this website, shut down your server and get out of the MapleStory private server business.
If you do not comply, you give us no choice but to take action against you. As you are currently violating Paragraph 16 of our Terms of Use, I figure you already owe Nexon $100,000 in liqudated damages. That’s not including the damages we willl win from you at trial (think $100,000 per infringement as per the statutory damages). And I’m sure your parents will be very thrilled to have to hire a very expensive attorney to defend you in this matter. I’m sure your parents will also be thrilled with you to know this all could have been avoided if you just followed the rules.
So Makey, do the smart thing and shut everything down. NOW!
Kiddies, if you want to flame me behind the comfort and anonymity of the Internet, go right ahead. You are all very brave. If there is anybody with real guts who has a problem with what I am doing, you can call me in my office. I don’t hide behind anything.
AS OF NOW, I HEREBY DECLARE CARESTORY HISTORY!
All I can say is, I told you so. I must be psychic? Things are about to get interesting.
