DaVice
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Privacy? No.
Copyright? Maybe, but it would depend on whether the owner of the server required everyone to sign a non-disclosure agreement (N.D.A.) ahead of time which specifically stipulated you were not allowed to record or publish while playing on their server. Game companies that do closed beta testing of a game often do this.
There is no such thing as ‘in-game privacy rights.’ A human being gets rights and those rights are based on where the person lives (country or region). When we play on someone else’s server, it is solely up to the owner of that server to make and enforce the rules. What we might be mistaking for ‘rights’ is actually just the generosity of that server owner.
Make no mistake, official servers are NOT public servers. They are privately owned servers which Funcom is renting and allowing us to use. For all intents and purposes, Funcom is the owner and therefore sets (and enforces) the rules.
If people that are playing on someone else’s server do no want to be recorded, then they have the ‘right’ to stop playing on that server. Period!
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