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Genshin Impact publisher miHoYo<\/strong> recently posted a detailed report on its official WeChat account<\/a> on the various measures it took to protect its intellectual property during 2025. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

As reported by 4Gamer<\/a>, miHoYo\u2019s legal department primarily cracked down on those who spread false rumors, leaked unreleased information, sold and distributed cheat tools, and hosted private servers for its games. During 2025, the company received over 100,000 player-submitted reports about such violations. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

To address the issues, miHoYo cooperated with police in 22 criminal investigations and initiated civil lawsuits against 2,388 individuals. The company even has a statistic for how many apologies it has received \u2013 a total of 1,240 infringers have publicly admitted to their wrongdoing. The total amount of compensation miHoYo has received through both court rulings and out-of-court settlements in these cases exceeded 37 million yuan, which converts to about $5.38 million USD. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Aside from the arrest of three Genshin Impact and Honkai: Star Rails leakers who ran HomDGCat Wiki<\/a>, miHoYo sued another blogger for approximately $70k USD for \u201ccontinuously disseminating unpublished information\u201d about the same titles. Another man who goes by LiuVanXXX was arrested by police for illegally profiting from leaked information. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

When it comes to cheat tools and proxy services, which are the bane of online gacha games, miHoYo says it cracked down on a whopping 503 retailers. One of the largest such operations, an online shop called Raindrop Studio, was ordered to pay about $380k in damages after being handed down an unfavorable court ruling. miHoYo also teamed up with local police to take down an organized crime group based in Yangzhou, China that sold and rented game accounts (and stole the personal information of 10 million users in the process), leading to the arrest of 25 suspects. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u00a0Related:\u00a0<\/strong>Korean game dev testifies before National Assembly about gacha odds manipulation and leaking player information to Chinese government<\/strong><\/a>\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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