The entertainment giant takes action on the matter amid evidence that illegal copies of its game were broadcasting abusive messages.
Disney has not stood still. The North American company has taken legal action against several clones of one of its old video games. This is Club Penguin, a title for children that closed its doors last year 2017. As it has been verified, the illegal versions have attracted a good number of users, and as the BBC indicates, Club Penguin Online was exposing minors due to abusive messages and inappropriate content.
Despite the closure of the servers, a hacked source code served to rebuild the product and relaunch it through illegal copies uploaded to private servers, although accessible to all those who search for it on the network. These versions do not have the original filters, so racist, anti-Semitic, homophobic and sexual content is present in video games. This being the case, the BBC has also discovered that players are engaging in sexual encounters through explicit content chats.
Although in the original game users were warned not to share any character information, users of these versions can provide details of their Instagram, Snapchat, Discord or Zoom accounts. While Club Penguin Online boasted of having reached 7 million players, Disney ordered the closing of the video game. The servers stopped working on May 15.
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Furthermore, a man has been arrested in London on suspicion of possessing abusive images of children, although his situation is still pending further investigation. "The safety of children is the number one priority for the Walt Disney Company," the company said in a statement. "We are appalled at the allegations of criminal activity and abhorrent behavior on this unauthorized website that is illegally using the Club Penguin brand and characters for its own purposes."
Disney has ensured that they will continue to fight unauthorized use of their licenses.
