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Closed Illegal Maplestory Servers
Why doesn't Nexon shut down those servers outside of the official Maplestory game?
Some have more players than the actual game itself.
Can't they file a cease and desist letter or are they located outside of their jurisdiction - aka founded outside of their licensing.
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Aside from that, cease and desist letters aren't a simple "hey, stop that or we'll sue" email. An official letter is long, heavily worded, and pretty much lists every infraction they're asking you to stop doing. That kind of effort won't really be taken by Nexon for every single server out there unless it heavily impacts their profit margin which, in all honesty, probably won't grow even if those servers are shut down.
It's a lot of time, effort and money that goes into a legal notice and I assume that Nexon isn't too worried about it right now or wherever the servers are hosted aren't breaking laws in that country (if hosted offshore).
EDIT: Although many of them are likely bots.