[massively]NcSoft files lawsuit vs bluehole and EN Mass for theft

[IonusX]

apparently NcSoft has started filing a lawsuit against TERA's producer and devloper for the theft of confidential documents and/or software and/or hardware for a lineage 3
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[Arkadrel]

There is no Lineage 3. NCsoft canceled it. Infuriated for obvious reasons, some of the guys took a large portion of the code and art assets they had made with NCsoft's funding and used them for TERA when they left NCsoft to form a new company.

huh... Lineage III.. erh... TERA here we come

I guess this means US launch date gets pushed back?

"On Jan. 28, the civil department of the Seoul Central District Court rendered a verdict and required the 4 involved defendants including Mr. Park to compensate NCsoft by 2 billion Wons. Meanwhile, the defendants were also ordered not to disclose NCsoft's business secrets to any others, but clear up all related data in hand."

"This is the civil ruling, following the criminal one in which the core developers of Bluehole Studio were found guilty (on Jun. 26, 2009, the Seoul Central District Court sentenced the former development director of Lineage 3 - Mr. Park to a fixed-term imprisonment of one and a half years with a 2-year suspension of execution for malfeasance and disclosure of business secrets)."

2year jail time... ouch.