Virtual meets Reality
This concerns me. Not in the sense that someone managed to get worked up enough over virtual property to stab his friend. No, we've seen cruel behavior in online games before... well, not all of them end up in stabbidy death, but cruel nonetheless. There are crazy and wicked people out there, this is no secret or surprise.
What is surprising about this particular story is that they tried to create a legal precedent for virtual property.
Wang Zongyu, an associate law professor at Beijing's Renmin University of China, told the paper: "The armour and swords in games should be deemed as private property as players have to spend money and time for them."
When you think about it with that logic, it almost seems to make sense. It is your hard earned hours that aquire those hard earned items. Why not be able to defend them as your legal property? But then you come to realize that the color of the sky in your world is blue, not plaid. That games are just games, and crazy people are just... well... crazy.
But wait! There's more! At least she didn't stab him?
What is surprising about this particular story is that they tried to create a legal precedent for virtual property.
Wang Zongyu, an associate law professor at Beijing's Renmin University of China, told the paper: "The armour and swords in games should be deemed as private property as players have to spend money and time for them."
When you think about it with that logic, it almost seems to make sense. It is your hard earned hours that aquire those hard earned items. Why not be able to defend them as your legal property? But then you come to realize that the color of the sky in your world is blue, not plaid. That games are just games, and crazy people are just... well... crazy.
But wait! There's more! At least she didn't stab him?