A defendant shall be punished by imprisonment for not less than one year and six months.

However, the execution of the above punishment shall be suspended for three years from the date of the final judgment.

Punishment of the crime

[2019 Highest 4029]

1. A person who violates the Act on Promotion of Information and Communications Network Utilization and Information Protection, etc. and a person who violates the Game Industry Promotion Act shall not destroy, destroy, alter, or forge an information and communications system, data, program, etc., or deliver or spread a program that is likely to interfere with the operation thereof (hereinafter referred to as "malicious program"), and shall not distribute computer programs, apparatus, or device not provided or approved by a game products related business entity for the purpose of interfering with the normal operation of game products or

Nevertheless, from August 27, 2018 to February 7, 2019, the Defendant may know the location of the other party to the game in the above game process by means of altering the cloak data of “E” games operated by Seo-gu apartment, Seo-gu, Incheon, and D, and automatically doing so (i.e., “I.m.,” “I.m.,” “I.m.,” “I.m.,” “I.m.,” “I.m.,” “I.m.,” “I.m.,” “I.m.,” “I.m.,” “I.m.,” “I.m.,” “I.m.,” “I.m.,” and “I.m.,” “I.m.,” and “I.m.,” “I.m.,” and “I.m.,” were provided to a large number of unspecified gamezers, etc. for a total amount of 5,817 times, as indicated in Table 1, 2.

As a result, the Defendant distributed the above nuclear program and certification code, which is a malicious program, to many and unspecified persons, and distributed a computer program not provided or approved by the game products related business entity for the purpose of hindering the normal operation of the game products.

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