The gaming centers were allegedly illegally accessing Ragnarok Online, a massive multiplayer online role-playing game popular among the youth.
NBI agents, led by S1 Roel Jovenir, closed down Spiner-gy Gaming Center, Wrexham Trading and Slapshock Gaming Center, all in Tondo; Aron Computer Gaming Center in Sta. Cruz; and GameSite Computer Ga-ming Center in Sampaloc, for allegedly violating Section 33b of Republic Act 8792, or the Electronic Commerce Act.
The NBI agents acted on a complaint filed by Level-Up! Inc. against the five gaming centers with the Manila Regional Trial Court Branch 24 presided over Judge Antonio Eugenio Jr.
Level-Up! is the exclusive local licensee of the Korean-made Ragnarok Online.
Armed with search war-rants issued by Eugenio, the NBI agents raided and shut down the five gaming centers last March 24. They confis-cated several computer sets which were sent to the NBI’s Computer Forensics Labora-tory.