UK Court Rules Stealing RuneScape Gold Is Criminal Theft in Case That Could Have Wider Repercussions for the Video Game Industry

Landmark case could have huge repercussions for the wider industry.

Ex MMO dev allegedly hacked 68 players for in-game gold worth over $700,000 and sold it for Bitcoin, UK court finds the gold legally counts as "property" and can be st…

A new judgment from the UK Court of Appeal finds that gold in MMOs can be treated as "property" and legally subjected to ...

UK Court of Appeal Rules that RuneScape Gold is Property in $750K Theft Case

A former Jagex employee allegedly stole over 700 billion virtual gold pieces and sold them for almost $750,000 in crypto and ...
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Specialist media lawyer outlines why UK Court of Appeals' judgment on RuneScape's Gold theft is so "significant for the games industry"

The UK Court of Appeal has ruled that unauthorized removal of RuneScape's in-game currency can be classed as criminal ...

Payments are charged from a lost Microsoft account

If payments are being charged from your lost Microsoft account you no longer have access to, use the suggestions provided in ...
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RuneScape gold counts as real stolen property after UK judge rules in $700K theft case

A UK judge has ruled that RuneScape gold can count as stolen property after an ex-developer was accused of stealing $700,000.
Rock Paper Shotgun

RuneScape's Treasure Hunter microtransactions are now gone, restoring integrity as Jagex reveal integrity-focused 2026 plans integratively

RuneScape developers Jagex have outlined their 2026 plans for the MMO, which have kicked off with the removal of Treasure Hunter microtransactions.
PCMag

It Took Me 45 Minutes to Close a Hotel Account I Opened 18 Years Ago. Here's What I Learned

What began as a simple attempt to delete an account quickly spiraled into a frustrating marathon of chatbots, customer ...

I'm finally going to secure my old accounts — thank you, suspicious emails

Game on, hacker ...
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Seongnam mayor to track, recover corruption proceeds from 'empty accounts'

Seongnam Mayor Shin Sang-jin stated on the 14th, “We will track the flow of funds that flowed out of the ‘empty accounts’ of the Daejang-dong development corruption group and recover every single won ...
MMO Bomb

RuneScape Is Officially Turning A Quarter Of A Century Old

Can you believe it’s time to celebrate 25 years of RuneScape? I know that we have a few MMORPGs in their second decade at this point. But when you consider all the ones that didn’t last even a ...