Interesting news story released by the BBC earlier today. Apparently, a 17 year old Dutch teenager was arrested for stealing virtual furniture from other users to use in his own room in an on-line virtual (game) world called Habbo Hotel. I love the quote that "It is a theft because the furniture is paid for with real money". I wonder if anything like this has happened in Second Life, yet, and, if so, when do we get to sign up to be Second Life CSI techs to virtually (or really) hunt down the perpetrators - and not just avatars checking out a CSI view of Second Life?
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/technology/7094764.stm
Other thoughts? Hit the comments. I wonder if anyone could post a really good "virtual crime" in Second Life that would have real world implications (i.e. actual arrests...)
Jim
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Interesting question! May be we should do more research about it. Try to contact Linden or google about it.
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