Board Thread:General Discussion/@comment-25654407-20141125073639/@comment-25730832-20141125123723

@Segar

Is that picture a screenshot of the game in chinese server?(I'll assume everything from the interface down to game mechanics and characters are 100% the same as JP Kancolle)? If yes, then it is (very) illegal since they are claiming to be a Chinese Server of Kancolle when Kancolle don't have any foreign server yet. Yet worse, they are using a copy of Kancolle to actually earning money for themselves. This is consider 'stealing another person's work' or 'using someone's work without approvement' and usually if this is between two group in the same country those CN boys will be in jail by now + a lot of fine.

However, the case of copyright infringement between countries is a lot more complicate (especially between CN and JP). Usually this should be dealt with in the Dpt. of Intellectual Property of each country but these cases usually take a while to deal with and many times ended up with no positive result. Dealing with 'Internet ver.' of copyright infringement is usually easier locally and harder otherwise.

But this should be getting around soon enough and maybe it will spark enough reaction for the CN government to force close it (at worst, JP will block off all its content from CN, although VPN is still the escape route).

There's a lot of cases of ripoff from CN already:

For example, TakunDes case there's still something the law could do consider it's a (very poor) 'derivative' (aka ripoff) work (Although I must accept, blonde hair Kongou actually makes her...more British) instead of a copy. It's more similar to the case of the JP movie '5 cm per second' and its almost traced CN counterpart 'Soul's Window' (which ironically, won the CN highest art and literature prize). Although sadly, even within that they can just claim it's not the same and get away with it (especially between CN and JP interelation)...which is the saddest case.

For AdmiralYamamoto case, the game is similar to the case of League of Legends and the Chinese '300 Heroes' (or something) game and is on the more creative side of CN (and will usually be accepted more outside).

To be honest, the scariest/worst possible conclusion of this situation is a lashback/counter from DMM,KDKW or JP itself toward any possible foreign servers or connection and not just at CN (at worse, caused the process of registering/connecting to be a lot more painful) and can risk all foriegn players enjoyment.