While surfing around the internet tonight, I ran into this interesting article. Something I did not know, probably because I have just recently started playing these games is that Mobsters used to allow you to purchase rewards points. But apparently MySpace had suspended that application instead saying that they were "down for maintenance". But because people had exchanged U.S. Dollars and paid for "enhanced game play", they were required to continue usage of the game (for a reasonable time) or it can be interpreted as fraud.
Quoted from the site;
"If the application you created is in violation of MySpace’s rules, regulations, or criteria then you can not only be brought to court with civil charges demanding the immediate reimbursement of funds to participants plus legal fees, but also you could suffer punitive damages. Due to the sheer number of participants who exchanged US Dollars for “Favor Points”, the claims would inevitably be consolidated into a class action lawsuit against you. Additionally, criminal charges can be filed.
Furthermore, if MySpace allowed your application to operate in violation of it’s policies (purposefully, or through its own incompetence) on as large of a scale as it did while allowing you to collect monetary compensation from it’s users then MySpace could also be held liable and can potentially suffer the ramifications of a very public class-action lawsuit aimed at punitive damages against MySpace or its parent company News Corp."
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