![]() ![]() We’d like to apologize to Jagex and to all legitimate Runescape players for the damage and harm iBot has done,” Impulse said in a statement. “Throughout the course of this lawsuit, we’ve come to understand the harm that botting does to Runescape and Jagex. It’s even legally barred from commenting on the case, although it did issue an apology to Jagex and acknowledge that it was in the wrong. The makers of the Runescape-hacking iBot are about to eat a seriously expensive knuckle sandwich of litigation.Ī lawsuit between Runescape studio Jagex and Impulse Software, the maker of the “iBot” software that allows players to level up even when they’re not actually playing the game, is about to end in a big victory for Jagex in the form of an award “in excess of six figures.” While the judge in the case has not yet signed off on it, a Boston court ruled last week that Impulse is guilty of copyright infringement, circumvention of technological protection measures and even computer fraud.Īlong with having to fork over an unspecified but inevitably hefty amount of money, Impulse is also forbidden from providing information on how to hack Runescape, its employees are permanently banned from any and all Jagex games and it must transfer ownership of its websites to Jagex and destroy all bot code.
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