A Chinese crime group on World of Warcraft faces jail time

[Anti-Block]

U WANT PRAY GAME

what a terrible way to advertise dark souls

[Ad Bot]

[Soukuw]

How is this even theft? Blizzard says WoW items have 0 monitary value. Also if you were to call the police on being hacked in a video game they should laugh at you and let the "thief" beat you up

The group received prison time for taking over 11,500 World of Warcraft accounts

Read the loving article, they were stealing accounts.

A finds out you got 5 to 10

The leader of the criminal ring received two years in prison and an $8000 fine

[Anti-Block]

in my defence it's more fun to say 5 to 10 than 2 years

[Mr.007]

wow people still play world of warcraft?

I have never played WOW in my life. I don't even plan to.

[ABlockOfCheese]

If stealing is a game mechanic then it shouldn't be illegal but apparently these dumbstuffs don't know what intellectual property is.

[Bisjac]

How is this even theft? Blizzard says WoW items have 0 monitary value. Also if you were to call the police on being hacked in a video game they should laugh at you and let the "thief" beat you up

all digital items on any game is owned by the company. like blizzard owning all this coin.

you dont actually believe the 100s of hours you stat your chatacter, equip him with rare items, spend millions of game gold with...
you dont believe you actually have rights to that stuff do you lol.

blizzard dosnt sell gold or items (i think)
but if they did or not, all items that exists on the game belong to them. so any 3rd party real world transactions going on is theft. since you are stealing potential money from the only one who has the right to make that transaction.

its not just against the rules to trade for real world money, its illegal.