User blog comment:Madaco/the legality of club penguin cheating( also known as hacking to some)/@comment-1498587-20090809155929

Dark Falkner's BIG WORDS Hacking: The changing or creating of a code to perform a certain action. Example. A CP Moderator putting a code on an item that makes it so only penguins with membership can buy it or get it.. Cheating: Putting packets of information into software so the user can access stuff faster or that can't normally be accesed. Cracking: Getting into the coding of a website that doesn't belong to the cracker and changing codes or putting packets of information in order to change the way things look to the public or to mess the website up. -- If you guys didn't understand this is what I mean. Hacking can ONLY be done by the creator. Billybob could hack into the website so he could make items only for membership. Cracking is what "hacking" is thought to be. If "hacking" was really illegal then Club Penguin couldn't be created or wouldn't be what it is now. Cracking however IS illegal to do on copyrighted websites. The cracker could put in codes so people could get a membrship without money. Or they could put a puppy on the front page of the website. Cracking isn't ALLWAYS illegal. If the cracker puts codes in to be Gold which is server-sided and it didn't do any harm it would only get him banned. However if the cracker damages some of the regular codes than it would cost the cracker a fine. If the cracker MASSIVELY damages the website altogether then YES the cracker COULD go to jail. Using penguin storm and cp trainer is CHEATING not CRACKING and is impossible to be HACKING unless billybob was using it to put new codes into club penguin. (Warning: Disclaimer: The rest of this paragraph may not be 100% true) WPE PRO cracks into the website to have free membership and server-sided colors that aren't accesible and CAN be illegal.