Is it illegal to ban someone after donating 35$?

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by maxwell321 » 9/9/2012

that happened to me, on mcinfected, it banned me for donating 35$
that is stealing
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by creeperCarole » 9/9/2012

nope. it's not illegal. it's called scamming, and you fell for it. it happens a lot with private servers and I highly recommend you REALLY get to know who you're dealing with before you donate anything to private servers.
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by KillerPro » 9/9/2012

Yes First You Should Play On That Server For A Month Or 2 And Understand The Surrounding Issue Then You Should Make Your Choice To Donate Or Not
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by Ted_ » 9/9/2012

maxwell321 wrote:that happened to me, on mcinfected, it banned me for donating 35$
that is stealing

If you payed through paypal you could report them for Fraud paypal would contact them and take them to court. Most likely put to jail, if it was a kid/ teenager that isn't old enough for paypal and it was in his/her's mother's or father's name the father or mother would go to prison.
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by rockes110 » 9/9/2012

Doubtful, W/ MANY Things There's Loopholes: Example Oh IDK That It Banned People, Must be an error.
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by Deth_Glitch » 9/9/2012

rockes there are laws, IF tehy have a GOOD reason to ban... distubting the sever in anyway, they are allowed to
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by GreyArkelite » 9/10/2012

Allow me to explain the legality of the situation.
A donation in the legal sense is defined as-- an exchange towards any organization or person, legitimate or otherwise, wherein one party submits an article to the other without expectation of an equal allotment for a particular cause; cause which may or may not be stressed directly and/or officially by the receiving part. If, and ONLY if, the cause is stressed and documentation of contract, informal or formal, then the receiving party in the exchange will be legally bound to uphold their duties guaranteed via the given contract. Legally, the value of the submitted article is irrelevant, be the article an amount of any currency either subjective or objective, a material item or good, or any article existing outside this given binaric pool that is relinquished to the receiving party.


In layman's terms, it's only illegal if you and were promised immunity to be banned, with or without any sort of limit, in exchange for your $35 donation and not given your compensation; which would mean the donatee is breaking an agreed purchase of a sort that would classify as fraud.

In order to be granted what is due to you, you'd have to hold some sort of documented proof that the agreement and its terms were made and not met as well as some sort of documented proof that any financial transactions that you made were under such a clause.

Even then, the lines here are pretty grey in a sense of whether it is a criminal or a civil offence, so in the end you could end up having to hire an attorney to prosecute him over it.

You might have a chance to get it back if you collect the information you need to report him for fraud, and in a whitemail him for the return of your money
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by marko1 » 9/10/2012

lol..did you deserve the ban is the real question?
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by lanman144 » 9/10/2012

I don't donate unless they have a good ToS
Edit: ToS is Terms Of Service
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by Gman200108 » 9/10/2012

You could report them for Fraud but then again it's "Donating"...
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by Al3xPro » 9/10/2012

Not to be mean but your cant do anything about it. Your CHOOSING to give them money and thats why its called a donation. So its your choice and if they have a good enough of a reason they can ban you.
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by Ted_ » 9/11/2012

Al3xPro wrote:Not to be mean but your cant do anything about it. Your CHOOSING to give them money and thats why its called a donation. So its your choice and if they have a good enough of a reason they can ban you.

If he got banned for no reason they can be reported for fraud and go to prison 8-)
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