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ulx crashban: Why it's NOT illegal, and you're fine to use it.

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TJ123:
Look, we all think ulx crashban is illegal. But you should put it as this way: does a courthouse really care if your game crashed? Crashban is NOT damaging equipment.
Enough said.

Caustic Soda-Senpai:
It's not illegal, it's just an asshole (pardon my language) thing to do. It's just crashing the client. Now, if you were booting them off their networks (DoS), then it'd be illegal.

Megiddo:
There are a number of perfectly legal things I could do to you if I met you in person too, and yet you would like none of them. Common decency should always be considered.

MrPresident:
Why did you create an account just to post this?

It may not be illegal, but it is overly excessive and we're not going to condone that kind of thing.
There are plenty of things you CAN do but shouldn't as a server owner.

To name a few:
Rebind players' keys. (Yes, you used to be able to do this)
Crash their client or run quit on them (You also used to be able to do this)
Activate their mic without their knowledge and listen to them talk.

In my opinion, no reputable servers would ever do anything like this. There's no reason and all you're doing is being a bully because you think it's funny.

What's the difference between banning someone and banning someone while crashing their client other than causing them more frustration.

JamminR:

--- Quote from: TJ123 on March 27, 2016, 12:43:40 AM ---Look, we all think ulx crashban is illegal.

--- End quote ---

I'd never heard of it until you posted it.
In the legal world, there are indeed laws in various countries that consider exploiting computer code for use other than it's original intent "illegal", especially when mis-use disturbs proper functioning of software. As I'm not aware of how/what is used in the crashban code you've just now mentioned, I imagine and would presume I'm right that whatever causes the game to crash wasn't meant to be used for malicious intent, therefore possibly making it illegal in some countries.

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