I.P. Infringement question

[Kaedan]

The funny part is that China does actually have copyright laws, but there's so much hand-waving as to what counts as an infringement that it's no surprise noone ever tries to make a claim.

They have them, yes, but they don't acknowledge foreign country copyrights. Only within their own country and "whenever they feel like".

Basically, if SE tried to sue a Chinese company for copyright violation, they'd just never hear a reply back, or they'd get a letter saying that their copyright isn't recognized. And since China doesn't extradite or cooperate in legal issues, they couldn't even get a representative from China to visit the court anyway.

[Nadirah]

Games tried this with WarCraft too.

Blizzard put the kabosh on it. They've got the money for high priced lawsuits. The goal usually isn't to win, but cost them so much money they have to shut down.

[Zebyxus]

SE now operates FFXIV in China as well, though their servers are entirely separate from the rest of ours.

http://na.finalfantasyxiv.com/pr/blog/000821.html

That being said, to the OP, report the offending website to square Enix customer support. They will handle it however they deem necessary. You can use the support ticket here to report a violation: https://support.na.square-enix.com/f...=5382&la=1&p=0

Just fill it out to the best of your knowledge.

Thank you, the same game is also using WoW references, so it's going to be interesting to see how long it remains viable.