Well, we will see how this goes. November 5th will come and go.
They can't seriously calculate the so-called "monetary loss" of this "cheating", can't they? How many servers have been crashed through this cheat? At least a few, but it's not that hard for a server to come right back up.
Even though I lack a law degree or anything of that sort, I seriously doubt if the police will really check up on this. I've personally harassed people on the Internet myself, and have been legally threatened at times, but the most they could do was cut off my ISP service and force me to shop for another ISP. Even on Xbox Live, there are so many trash talkers throwing racial slurs all about, and yet, not even Microsoft bans these people from their service, despite the ToS, which seems to prohibit this sort of behavior.
Some people (people I've harassed on MySpace and such) claimed to have even filed a complaint to the FBI in order to get them to arrest me. That has yet to even happen! And it has been almost nine months since I've been addressed with that threat! The same will happen here. What this walker fellow is saying is fantasy. No laws are being broken here at all.
Cheating is not even the same as Internet harassment. The interpretation of the so-called "laws" that this walker cites are open. Laws regarding the Internet are still in their infancy.
Eventually, I can easily see this walker person eventually dropping this and playing Crysis instead when that comes out in November. I think it's time to move on from such childishness. I find this really silly. "ZOMG WE R GOING 2 FILEE A LAWS00T AGANST J00 CH3ATING ASSHOLES LOLOLOLOLOLOLOL!"
Amazing that people take cheating in a video game so seriously. I can understand if and when real money is actually being lost (like when a business is constantly getting their servers DoS'd, thus preventing them from doing business and making money), but this is really, really, extreme. A purported lawsuit over cheating in a video game. Which isn't even really cheating, but simply using client-based commands and scripts that were already available.
Sorry from the long post, but these things I find incredibly funny...