In advance I don't want to do it, I just care. Let's say e.g. I do a hack for Call of Duty where you have unlimited ammunition, ESP and Aimbot and then I sell it for e.g. 20 euro a month. Could I be shown for this? Or can I be shown for it if I just develop it? You can hear e.g. From earlier of a boy who sold hacks in Fortnite and was then displayed. Is it always like that, because there are so many sites that sell hacks.
And yes I know that you will probably be banned from HWID or IP if the Anti Cheat notices it
You are violating the ToS in games and companies if you create hacks and cheats and then distribute them - regardless of whether it is free or not. Is in the general sense illegal and punishable by law. Likewise, it's not okay to just use cheats.
I don't think using hacks in games is illegal. Or. There's no criminal offense that could advocate an advertisement. However, I can imagine that selling hacks is actually not allowed. Still, the legal situation is pretty unclear… Because most of the corporations are abroad.
Doesn't it mean it's okay illegal too? And it can't really be that so many people take a risk just to earn 20 euro a month
If you look at it very strictly then that is copyright infringement and that has already ended in jail in other countries, well that will not go that far in Germany, but it is definitely not legal
Not in Germany.
But it does in China.
Of course, you have to register a business and pay taxes accordingly, of course.
Do you know what the law is like in other countries where most of them come from? So USA e.g.
Whose copyright is being infringed? The cheat is completely his work.
It is not illegal. So you don't have to expect legal consequences. So also not with fines (usually at least).
But you will probably be permanently banned from the server.
I honestly don't know what it's like to spread the cheat, but the cheating itself is copyright infringement
Where does it say in the criminal law that this is criminal?
No, you probably don't know what a copyright infringement is.
Copyright infringement would be e.g. A game that doesn't belong to you and offers others to download.
Cheating has nothing to do with copyright infringement.
Yes, because you change the original to the detriment of others
Changing the original is not a violation of copyright.
It would only be if you then spread the modified original further. But you don't do that.
Then it's not, I can only tell you that there are cases where cheaters in online games have to go to jail
But not in Germany.
Cheating is illegal in China, but not here.
YouTube is illegal in China too, but that's not why it's illegal here.
From 2021 already
Check the ToS of games and the developer companies and you will see that it is illegal to distribute cheats. @ jort93
But the TOS are not the law…
So why should I read it when I want to learn about the laws?
You don't get it, do some research on the internet and stop trolling. I'm not chewing it on you
https://praxistipps.chip.de/...egal_29985
"As long as you do not get a monetary advantage, cheating is not criminally relevant and therefore legal in this sense."
I just don't like it when you come up with laws here. If you can't even tell the difference between TOS and seen, you really have no idea.
Wasn't it somehow that you only have to register a business from 5000 euro a month? Or did I just catch it somewhere?
No, that's not true. Whenever you have a profit intention you have to register a web site.
But you don't have to pay taxes up to a limit.
I'm not talking about LAW anywhere, shut your head, you troll
Do you have to do that as a minor? E.g. With 16?
Yes, you do.
"Is in the general sense illegal and punishable"
Illegal is (and only) what is prohibited by law. And only what is in the criminal law is punishable.
You don't even have a clue what you're saying…
There's also a criminal law in the sense of the ToS of something, otherwise the ToS of something could not be enforced. If you screw up, you will be disfellowshipped via the ToS regulation. You do not understand it. Better to troll, annoy and annoy with splitting hairs in formulations… It doesn't help anyone like that
"Criminal law in the sense of the ToS of something, otherwise the ToS of something could not be enforced"
You can only enforce by no longer doing business with the person, i.e. Banning the person in the case of a game. But not under criminal law, and therefore it is not illegal either.
https://de.wikipedia.org/..._sine_lege without law, no penalty.
Clear. But maybe a parent would have to sign.
Then do what you want.
By the way, there are also countries in which the use, creation and distribution of cheats and hacks is illegal by criminal law, should one also introduce it here. It doesn't matter what you do here in your free time.
https://www.gamestar.de/artikel/cheaten-ist-ab-2021-illegal,3356126.html
This is an April Fool's Day joke if that's what you mean.
But, of course, something like that will come in the next few years. But nothing has been announced yet.
Ne I mean of course not xD it was discussed in any case about a corresponding regulation
But I don't think anything has been announced for 2021.
But of course it is not completely unthinkable, in South Korea and China this is already banned and is being implemented.
I checked it again, changing the game is very much a copyright infringement, Epic games has already fought a case with a 14 year old in court.
Swell:
https://lawyered.at/ist-cheaten-eigentlich-illegal/
https://praxistipps.chip.de/...egal_29985
There are several other sources that say that changing the code in online games is against copyright law
Both lawsuits were in the USA, so they have nothing to do with German law.
But yes, modifying code can be copyright infringement. But you don't have to do it for cheats.
Violating the ToS is not illegal.
Depending on the game, creating the cheat can be a copyright infringement as long as the game code is used for the cheat.
