Here's an excerpt from official czech document, generated by LLM. This is a different case from 2 years ago in Czechia regarding Ashia2 server.
This is a criminal judgment (rozsudek) from the District Court in Tachov, Czech Republic - case no. 9 T 179/2024, an anonymized copy. Here's what it covers.
The core case
The court, presided over by Mgr. Michaela Řezníčková, approved plea agreements (dohody o vině a trestu) that had been reached with the prosecutor on 4 November 2024. Three defendants were found guilty: two individuals and one company.
The offense was running illegal private servers of the online game Metin2. From at least 13 October 2017 to 29 May 2024, the two individuals obtained the game's source code without authorization, modified it, and created near-identical copies under the names Titaniagame, Titania2, and Ashia2. They hosted these on their own websites, gave the public unrestricted access without the copyright holder's consent, and ran "Itemshops" where players bought in-game currency for real money through GoPay, PayPal, Paysafe, and Stripe.
The European rights to Metin2 are held by Gameforge 4D GmbH (Germany) under a license dated 6 April 2020. The company defendant later took over the Ashia2 game and ran it from 30 June 2023 to 29 May 2024.
Money involved
The court documented gross income (neoprávněný prospěch — unlawful gain, not proven damages) as roughly:
First individual: at least 19.6 million CZK
Second individual: at least 3.5 million CZK
The company: at least 13.2 million CZK
Charges
Copyright infringement under § 270 of the Criminal Code and unauthorized access to a computer system under § 230, both as joint offenses. The company was additionally prosecuted under the Act on Criminal Liability of Legal Persons.
Sentences
Individual 1: a fine of 500 daily rates at 1,200 CZK (600,000 CZK total), plus extensive forfeiture — a plot of land, numerous computers and servers, hard drives, silver and gold bars, 8,000 CZK cash, a Ledger crypto hardware wallet, and recovery-phrase documents.
Individual 2: a 3-year prison sentence suspended for a 3-year probation period, a fine of 220 daily rates at 500 CZK (110,000 CZK), plus forfeiture of computers, a phone, and documents.
The company: a fine, forfeiture of a bank account balance (698.48 CZK), and — notably — dissolution of the legal person.
The damages claim
The injured party claimed about 36.4 million CZK, arguing that every crown the defendants earned represented lost profit. The court rejected this and referred them to civil proceedings, reasoning that the actual damage was never proven — since Metin2 can be played without buying items, it isn't established that players would have spent the same money on the legitimate game.
The correction order
The document ends with a separate resolution (usnesení) dated 3 March 2025 fixing a clerical error: the company's fine was written as 790 daily rates / 790,000 CZK, but the judgment as actually announced was 79 daily rates × 1,000 CZK = 79,000 CZK. The written version was corrected to match.
All defendants and the prosecutor waived their right to appeal, so the judgment became final on 6 February 2025.