LoL players blackmailing other players
Apparently there are some really crazy shit happening in the world of gaming. According to Kotaku there are a lot of cases of blackmailing against other players in League of Legends. The thing is that in certain countries the law is tough on defamation. It can give as much as three years in prison or 20 000 US Dollars in fines.
And we all know that when someone is not performing in the world of gaming some tough comments can be made. In these situations though, some people has put that into system - to make big money.
To make the comments personal these players are telling the other players their name and additional information about themselves. Then they intentionally play bad hoping that their teammates will bash them in chat.
And I guess that it becomes more personal since they wrote their names and some additional information earlier.
During the game these players have screenshotted the chat and afterwards they take these images to the police. Via IP-adresses the police tracks the "bullies" down and the investigation moves on. Now, the money making part comes in. Instead of trying to send them to jail. The player who reported the "crime" suggests that they can settle this without going any further and dropping the charges. For a fee, and it is usually about 300 - 2000 USD. Since most offenders is just kids/teens their parents wants to pay to keep their kids from further trouble.
No wonder that the chats are not as toxic in Asia as it can be in Europe for example. It is not like the police in Europe will track down someone for using caps lock to bash another player in a game such as League of Legends. It is not something I have ever heard of anyways. That is why this news seem so outlandish.
Out of around 8500 cases half of them were regarding League of Legends. To get to the bottom of this problem they are working on finding the ones filing a lot of charges. If they are known for filing complaints they will just be turned down. I don't know if they have gotten far with this but hopefully they can spot these trolls and deny them any profit.
If the accuser threatens the accused or ask for unrealistic amount of money for settlement they can be arrested themselves if I understood it correctly.
This news came from Kotaku originally and I also read about it on a swedish site called FZ.se. It sounded so crazy that at first I did not believe the headlines but since I wanted to check out if it was actually correct, I read the source where fz.se got their information (which was Kotaku).
To make the comments personal these players are telling the other players their name and additional information about themselves. Then they intentionally play bad hoping that their teammates will bash them in chat.
And I guess that it becomes more personal since they wrote their names and some additional information earlier.
During the game these players have screenshotted the chat and afterwards they take these images to the police. Via IP-adresses the police tracks the "bullies" down and the investigation moves on. Now, the money making part comes in. Instead of trying to send them to jail. The player who reported the "crime" suggests that they can settle this without going any further and dropping the charges. For a fee, and it is usually about 300 - 2000 USD. Since most offenders is just kids/teens their parents wants to pay to keep their kids from further trouble.
No wonder that the chats are not as toxic in Asia as it can be in Europe for example. It is not like the police in Europe will track down someone for using caps lock to bash another player in a game such as League of Legends. It is not something I have ever heard of anyways. That is why this news seem so outlandish.
Out of around 8500 cases half of them were regarding League of Legends. To get to the bottom of this problem they are working on finding the ones filing a lot of charges. If they are known for filing complaints they will just be turned down. I don't know if they have gotten far with this but hopefully they can spot these trolls and deny them any profit.
If the accuser threatens the accused or ask for unrealistic amount of money for settlement they can be arrested themselves if I understood it correctly.
This news came from Kotaku originally and I also read about it on a swedish site called FZ.se. It sounded so crazy that at first I did not believe the headlines but since I wanted to check out if it was actually correct, I read the source where fz.se got their information (which was Kotaku).
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