The UK Court of Appeal has ruled that unauthorized removal of RuneScape's in-game currency can be classed as criminal theft. Property line"This Court of Appeal judgment is significant for the games industry for a number of reasons," Poulton-Jones, a Senior Associate at specialist games lawyers, Sheridans, explains. This showed that the gold pieces had real-world value, despite the fact that RuneScape’s EULA states the contrary." As Poulton-Jones explains, Jagex's EULA states that virtual currency "does not have any inherent or real-world monetary value," and stresses that virtual currency is not the player’s "own private property." "In both respects, the Court found that the opposite was the case: the gold coins did have real-world value, and did constitute property," she added.