Thursday, March 20, 2008

Virtual theft, is it?

Now, this is something new. I was going through the law website and there was an "old" article (dated Dec 21, 2007) about a game publisher made to pay-up for the loss of virtual property of a gamer in China! A Chinese court has ordered MMO publisher Shanda Interactive Entertainment to pay the equivalent of $680 USD to a player in its MMO World Of Legend for the loss of virtual items. The gamer plans to return to court to sue Shanda for the roughly $20,000 USD he has spent on the game over the previous five years.

http://blog.wired.com/games/2007/12/chinese-gamer-s.html
http://www.pacificepoch.com/newsstories/113050_0_5_0_M/

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