Fining Hackers?

[Lee456]

Shall we fine someone who handballs in a friendly game of football?

Cheating is annoying, but fining is OTT for public servers. Obviously it's different if they're hacking to win money in a tournament.

 

[HangTime]

They seem to be able to proove otherwise for those who perform illegal use of computers.. hacking/illegal p2p usage/creating viruses etc.

How do you pleed? AFK.

True, but consider how many people you actually hear of getting convicted of such crimes, compared to the number committing them.

Then you have to consider how seriously the company concerned would take it. Victims of hacking/virii/warez are far more likely to want to pursue the criminals since they are actually suffering quite severely from it. Can you really see a games development house wanting to waste time and money going after some teenager who was wallhacking on GenericFPS2.5? I don't think so.