Jail time for cheat programmers in China

Here’s an interesting article about cheating in Playerunknown’s Battleground:
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2018-01-16/tencent-cracks-down-on-cheats-in-world-s-top-selling-video-game
I was surprised to hear that the Chinese police jail cheating programmers who make aim bots and so on.

[quote]Ahead of its official debut this year, the biggest gaming company on the planet has enlisted Chinese police to root out the underground rings that make and sell cheat software. It’s helped law enforcement agents uncover at least 30 cases and arrest 120 people suspected of designing programs that confer unfair advantages from X-Ray vision (see-through walls) to auto-targeting (uncannily accurate snipers). Those convicted in the past have done jail time.
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How strange. I think they’ve forgotten that it’s just a game!