Night wish, you ask what would happen if you were the one that found the bug. I'm sure that would depend on what you did with the information, which in turn depends on your personal integrity. Suppose you did something, and suddenly 500m appeared in your inventory. Would you do it again? And again and again and again, and then sell the gold? Or, would you put in a bug report to Jagex?
Per the news report, not everyone that encountered the bug was banned. Some who may have encountered it innocently were merely rolled back. I'm sure that any that turned in a bug report probably were not punished.
07-Aug-2012 23:22:39