A rare case where a person was arrested for stealing online game accounts (Runescape accounts to be exact). Here are two links with a bit different views about it:
- at Casual Gaming
- at Spong
Interesting comment from Mark Gerhard about "just a handful of individuals responsible for over 95 per cent of all account hijacking in RuneScape". In this light the arrest totally makes sense. I know that many people (especially those who don't play Runescape) would laugh about a person being arrested and prosecuted for such crime. They simply don't understand amount of effort put into accounts by players and value of these accounts. Even if we put "emotional attachment" and "time invested" arguments aside, like it or not, Runescape accounts do have monetary value and it is not small. On black (RWT) market, of course, but still. In this regard hijacking Runescape accounts for profit is similar to stealing tens of thousands of dollars from people. It is actually worse, if you take in account how many people get hurt in the process.
P.S. Just one extra link. Alex posted a very nice technical tutorial for Blogspot users about setting up comments (as a continuation to the discussion we had before). If you are on Blogspot, you might find it useful.
