Considering there's no shortage of RMT going on and prices in the shouts are dropping, I'd say that the ban waves and SE's policy of catching "the big fish" do exactly jack besides kill old farming bots that were probably already abandoned. If they're serious about ever stopping it, they're going to have to place 24/7 teams of GMs in stealth mode on every world watching the hot spots with the tools to hoover up any bot they see during their shift. They could even add achievements for the GMs; ban 1000/5000/10000 bots, that kind of thing. Or an inverse of Honest Gillionaire, "remove 10 million gil from the economy by banning bots", hahaha.