Friday, December 07, 2007

BBC NEWS | Technology | 'Virtual theft' leads to arrest

BBC NEWS | Technology | 'Virtual theft' leads to arrest



This story has a lot of interesting implications for virtual worlds. When the story first went around, it sounded like someone was arrested for stealing a virtual item, and in a sense, this is true. But the really critical issue is that the teens stole passwords to gain access to account that had money associated with them. This is just fraud.

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