[HN Gopher] Police bust 'world's biggest' video-game-cheat opera...
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       Police bust 'world's biggest' video-game-cheat operation
        
       Author : adamhowell
       Score  : 8 points
       Date   : 2021-03-31 15:30 UTC (7 hours ago)
        
 (HTM) web link (www.bbc.com)
 (TXT) w3m dump (www.bbc.com)
        
       | tomatotomato37 wrote:
       | By games do they mean gambling games or literally random
       | videogames like StarCraft? And if so why is this something the
       | police are involved in? What laws were even broken?
        
         | gambiting wrote:
         | They were selling cheats, which can(I don't know if it did
         | here) involve selling software ilegally. So no different than
         | busting someone selling illegal copies of windows in the old
         | days.
        
         | rnestler wrote:
         | From the article:
         | 
         | > The gang designed and sold cheats to popular video games,
         | including Overwatch and Call of Duty Mobile.
        
       | Snawoot wrote:
       | Is this 1st April joke or it is real?
        
       | noodlesUK wrote:
       | > Subscription prices for users began at around $10 a day, and up
       | to $200 a month.
       | 
       | What? 10*(1 month) > 200...
        
       | malux85 wrote:
       | > Kunshan police found and destroyed 17 cheats and arrested 10
       | people in connection with the ring.
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       | Ah ha! A cheat! (holds bit of paper). Quick, burn it!
       | 
       | Excellent, one more cheat eliminated from the world.
        
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       | wodenokoto wrote:
       | Can someone expand on why cheats are worth $200/month to
       | consumers?
       | 
       | Is it a way to buy bling that would otherwise cost thousands or?
        
         | rnestler wrote:
         | From the article
         | 
         | > With players able to win millions in gaming tournaments
         | around the world, a crackdown on cheating has intensified in
         | recent years.
         | 
         | Apparently cheats were used to win tournament prize money.
        
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