From Vegas To Legal

Your update on intellectual property, information technology and regulatory matters

Virtual theft – real punishment?

Posted by Emil A. Georgiev on 12 December, 2008


Virtual theft and virtual fraud appear to be widely spread among the online and gaming community
. Authorities in the Nethderlands and in the USA have thus undertaken proceedings against wrongdoers.

The issue is quite interesting, so I’ll have an eye on it.

One Response to “Virtual theft – real punishment?”

  1. adolushanov said

    It seems that game cheating is also illegal … or at least selling cheating tools to gamers :) http://arstechnica.com/gaming/news/2009/01/judges-ruling-that-wow-bot-violates-dmca-is-troubling.ars

Leave a Reply

XHTML: You can use these tags: <a href="" title=""> <abbr title=""> <acronym title=""> <b> <blockquote cite=""> <cite> <code> <pre> <del datetime=""> <em> <i> <q cite=""> <strike> <strong>