This is a really significant precedent. First there was the intersection of commerce on the edge, with scores of E:Bay auctions selling stuff in the make beleive worlds, then it was legitimised, with the game companies selling the stuff themselves. And now a judge in the real world rules on property in a vistual world. The intersection of the virtual and real worlds is complete
http://www.reuters.com/newsArticle.jhtml?type=internetNews&storyID=4022155
Online Gamer in China Sues, Wins Over Virtual Theft
Fri December 19, 2003 08:30 AM ET
BEIJING (Reuters) - A Chinese court has ordered an online video game company to return hard-won virtual property, including a make-believe stockpile of bio-chemical weapons, to a player whose game account was looted by a hacker.
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