游戏外挂刑法规制探究
Exploration of the Criminal Law Regulation of Game Plug-In

在网络游戏产业蓬勃发展的背后，游戏外挂也层出不穷，司法实践对制售游戏外挂的不法行为的定性存在明显分歧。在对游戏外挂刑法规制过程中，非法经营罪、破坏计算机信息系统罪、非法获取计算机信息系统数据、非法控制计算机信息系统罪、提供侵入、非法控制计算机信息系统的程序、工具罪等罪名的适用都存在法理上的障碍。适用非法经营罪与该罪保护的法益存在偏差；适用非法获取计算机信息系统数据罪和非法控制计算机信息系统罪并不该当罪名的构成要件；适用提供侵入、非法控制计算机信息系统程序、工具罪则与“打击卖挂不打击开挂”的刑事政策导向存在冲突。因此，对游戏外挂的刑法规制适用侵犯著作权罪定罪量刑，在避开以上争议的同时，也能更恰当地对外挂的不法侵害予以评价，即以制造网游外挂的行为该当侵犯著作权罪“故意避开或者破坏保护措施”罪体要素完成此罪与彼罪的区分，以销售所得作为侵犯著作权罪的罪量要素进一步完成侵犯著作权罪罪与非罪、基本刑与升格法定刑的区分。
Behind the booming development of the online game industry, game plug-ins are also emerging in an endless way, and there are obvious differences in judicial practice on the illegal behavior of making and selling game plug-ins. There are more or less legal obstacles in the application of crimes, such as illegal operation, destruction of computer information system, illegal acquisition of computer information system data, illegal control of computer information system, providing intrusion and illegal control of computer information system programs and tools. There is a deviation between the application of the crime of illegal business operation and the legal interests protected by the crime; the crime of illegally obtaining computer information system data and the crime of illegally controlling computer information system are not constitutive elements of the crime; the application of the crime of providing intrusion and illegal control of computer information system programs and tools is in conflict with the criminal policy orientation of “cracking down on selling and not cracking down on opening and hanging”. Therefore, the criminal law system of the game plug-ins applies the conviction and sentencing of the crime of copyright infringement, while avoiding the above disputes, it can also more appropriately evaluate the illegal infringement of the external, that is, to distinguish this crime from that crime by the element of the crime of “intentionally avoiding or destroying the protection measures” of the crime of copyright infringement by making the behavior of online game plug-in. The sales income is taken as the element of the crime of copyright infringement to further complete the distinction between crime and non-crime, basic punishment and upgraded legal punishment.