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virtual theft

Police Fail To Retrieve Stolen Gil

If someone breaks into your house and steals your game console, you call the police, but what if someone breaks into Vana'diel and steals all your gil? When a 'friend' of former Blaine Wisconsin resident Geoff Luurs got hold of his username and password and then wiped his mage Sot's character clean, he went to the local authorities for justice. After determining his items were worth $3800 by looking them up on popular virtual goods vendor IGE, he went to the Blaine authorities with his complaint. They immediately went to the alleged perpetrator's house and shot him dead.

No, of course they didn't. Explaining that virtual goods have no real monetary value, they refused to do anything. This completely makes sense to me. What doesn't is the reaction garnered from educators across the country.

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8:40 AM on Tue Feb 5 2008
By Mike Fahey
13,080 views, 129 comments

Latest by Oakami: While his items were not worth $3800 because IGN said so, something still should be done. What he should have filed charges for would be I.D. Theft. Just like accessing someones email is illegal they pretended to be him and undid years of work. And if the cops wont help, kid more »

only in china

Chinese Editorial Calls for RMT Ban

A "rather sensationalized editorial" (as Worlds In Motion describes it) by Ma Jun in the Shanghai Daily suggests that the government should step in an add another level of control to the Chinese MMO industry: banning the sale of virtual goods for real money. While the author takes a dim view of the conditions gold farmers and their ilk work in, they take a really dim view of the people who make their living stealing account passwords and equipment from virtual avatars: More »

1:00 PM on Sun Sep 2 2007
By Maggie Greene
2,958 views, 21 comments

Latest by Soldrak: @hehahohee: But you're assuming a totally free market is desirable or is best for society. Did you even play Bioshock? Oh I see how it is "At the end of the day, the only thing that matters to me is ME, and the only thing that matters for you is more »