SIXTEEN-YEAR-OLD Sean Lee is a 'wanted man'. AsiaSoft Online, the official local distributor of one of Singapore's most popular online games Maple Story, is looking to shut down the private servers operated by the teen and about a dozen or so others like him who run illegal versions of the game.

Sean runs it out of his bedroom, where he has an Internet connection that can handle as much traffic as those of many small companies.

Every day, thousands of people flock to his server to battle monsters, upgrade their characters and to interact with one another.

Read Seow Kai Lun's full story in Tuesday's edition of The Straits Times.