Jagex Wins Lawsuit Against Bot Makers


In a measure that will certainly cause more rage-filled comments here at MMO Fallout, Jagex has won their case against bot makers, with some tasty bit of extra information to top it off. In the case of Jagex Vs Impulse Software, the judge ruled in favor of Jagex on counts of copyright infringement under federal law, circumvention of the Digital Millennium Copyright Act, trademark infringement under federal law, Computer fraud and abuse under federal law, and Tortious interference with contract (Tortious interference is when your actions damage a company’s relations with customers/business partners).

In addition, the members of Impulse Software are now forbidden by court order to write bots for any Jagex game, help write bots for any Jagex game, and even play any Jagex game, as well as releasing the source code for their bot software. The URL’s will be transferred into Jagex’s possession, as well as a large amount of documents they had relating to the program. In addition, Impulse has been ordered to put out a public apology.

The amount that Impulse is paying to Jagex has been sealed, so how can this news get juicier, I hear you ask. Pay attention to this little snippet:

Within 10 days of the entry of this Order, Defendants shall identify and provide all contact information in their possession to Jagex for all current or past resellers,script developers, code developers, and customers for any product marketed, licensed, or sold by Defendants dealing with any Jagex Game.

The developers and customer list handed over to Jagex? I smell Jagex Vs Jon Doe 2: Electric Boogaloo coming soon to a theater near you.

(Court document)

2 thoughts on “Jagex Wins Lawsuit Against Bot Makers”

  1. HAHA! Go Jagex! There have been a few bots returning to runescape, in places such as sorcerers garden, green dragons, flesh crawlers, and alot of other places im just not going to name. I hope to see those stopped very soon as well.

    ” We’re already well underway with our next generation of anti-botting software called Optimus, which is going to be released shortly” – http://services.runescape.com/m=news/g=runescape/jagex-vs-ibot–anti-bot-update

    I don’t see why there are dislikes on this post. This is great news for legit players. I hope Jagex sends out more mail to the list of new names they get from winning their case. This will all be even better once Jagex successfully takes down gold farming websites like gold4fun. You see alot of people who own shit they didnt work for and its just sad. The rare and expensive items on runescape would be worth alot more than they are if people would stop buying them from gold farming websites.

  2. Lmfao ^ good luck with that john. bots will NEVER be gone and theyre back more then ever now.

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