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CAOS Forums => News and Commentary => Topic started by: EvilAndrew on 2005-08-20T10:20:23-05:00 (Saturday)

Title: Cheat in an MMORPG, go to Jail?
Post by: EvilAndrew on 2005-08-20T10:20:23-05:00 (Saturday)
The BBC reports (http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/technology/4165880.stm) of a Chinese student arrested in Japan for stealing items in the MMORPG (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/MMORPG) Lineage 2 (http://www.lineage2.com/) and selling them on e-bay (http://search.ebay.com/Lineage-2).  Allegedly, the student used bots to unfairly defeat his victims and take their stuff.  This is one of the more unusual online legal cases I have seen.  You could argue that if he had cheated in a game that did not allow its pieces to be sold (Checkers (http://games.yahoo.com/games/login2?page=ck), Halo (http://www.bungie.net/Games/Halo2/), etc.) then he would be a jerk but not guilty of anything.

BBC:  Student held over online mugging (http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/technology/4165880.stm)
GameSpot: Lineage II fraud results in arrest (http://www.gamespot.com/pc/rpg/lineage2thechaoticchronicle/news_6131205.html)
Title: Re: Cheat in an MMORPG, go to Jail?
Post by: Bryan on 2005-08-20T11:42:50-05:00 (Saturday)
I can't wait to see how this pans out