You are a criminal if you dare to release your game in SA!
* Do you authenticate your player’s login details?
* Do your game use an in-app-purchase service from an app store?
* Do your game send analytical info to a server to record player’s behaviours?
* Do your game use SSL/HTTPS or any other form of encryption to communicate with any server?
* Do your game encrypt player’s game progress (saved games) so that player cannot cheat?
If you answer “yes” to any of the questions above and you did not register and PAID your administrative fee at the Department of Communications, then you are a criminal that should go to jail for up to two years!
According to Electronic Communications and Transactions Act, No. 25 of 2002
Clause 30:
* Do your game use an in-app-purchase service from an app store?
* Do your game send analytical info to a server to record player’s behaviours?
* Do your game use SSL/HTTPS or any other form of encryption to communicate with any server?
* Do your game encrypt player’s game progress (saved games) so that player cannot cheat?
If you answer “yes” to any of the questions above and you did not register and PAID your administrative fee at the Department of Communications, then you are a criminal that should go to jail for up to two years!
According to Electronic Communications and Transactions Act, No. 25 of 2002
Clause 30:
Clause 32:No person may provide cryptography services or cryptography products in the Republic until the particulars referred to in section 29 in respect of that person have been recorded in the register contemplated in section 29
A person who contravenes or fails to comply with a provision of this Chapter is guilty of an offence and liable on conviction to a fine or to imprisonment for a period not exceeding two years.
"cryptography product" means any product that makes use of cryptographic techniques and is used by a sender or recipient of data messages for the purposes of ensuring¬—
(a) that such data can be accessed only by relevant persons;
(b) the authenticity of the data;
(c) the integrity of the data; or
(d) that the source of the data can be correctly ascertained;
"data" means electronic representations of information in any form;
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First, games don't meet the definition of "data message" or "encryption product" or "encryption service" which are the only things these sections apply to.
Second, these sections only apply to providers of encryption software not the users thereof (which games would be)
Third, these sections of the ECT Act are so broad and vague they are probably unconstitutional.