New Scientist reports that a man was arrested in Japan for mugging and attacking other players in Linage II. The man was appearently also using bots to carry out his work.
The impact on other MMO's is yet to see.
Some comments from fellow pirates:
Nej Lyo > I'm a criminal in real life too! COOL
Theodorovik > i can understand why the game people
would want to ban him, but i dont know why the police
arrested him exactly