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Shadowbane Hacking Redux - Guild Bannings
Thanks to Shacknews for pointing to a report on Gamerifts.com tracking the results of the investigation into the Shadowbane MMORPG hacking. According to a post on the official Ubisoft forums reprinted there, "..all of the members from the Guild Invictus were banned from Shadowbane for using teleport exploits, many of which culminated during the events of May 27th and 28th. As all members where banned, all money has been removed from their buildings and their Tree of Life, and the city will be left to die." There's no news on whether criminal charges may be filed, as threatened when the original exploit took place.
... Except cheating in Counterstrike doesn't really have any effect except pissing people off. It doesn't cost anything to boot somebody from a Counterstrike server. These kids actually disrupted a server which people were paying to use, and employees who are being paid to work had to spend extra hours fixing it.