US-based Runescape Bot sellers Sued

"a history and pattern of owning and operating cheating Web sites, including cheating sites for ... RuneScape," in violation of copyright, trademark and computer fraud laws.

"Via the website rscheata.com, Defendants actively market and promote the Bots with knowledge that they are encouraging and enabling Bot users to breach their contracts with Jagex.

Defendants' actions have unjustly profited Mark Snellman and Eric Snellman while negatively impacting the experience of millions of legitimate RuneScape® gamers and causing significant damage to Jagex, e.g., including but not limited to loss of player revenue due to reduction in the amount of legitimate RuneScape® players who quit when their playing experience was negatively impacted by the defendants' Bots; employee time investigating and addressing user accounts using Bots; employee time responding to complaints from legitimate RuneScape® players regarding others' use of the Bots, and the like."

"The Bot software downloads a copy of the RuneScape® game client from www.runescape.com just as would a legitimate player using a Web browser. Once downloaded the Bot software uses a process called reflection to examine the operation of the RuneScape® client, which is otherwise normally hidden from players. The Bot software then uses this information in conjunction with color sampling techniques to identify objects within RuneScape® that the Bot software wishes to interact with, such as trees, mining spots or monsters."