Virtual Worlds

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Avatar Murdered! (Sort of…with a heavy dose of media-hype)

The below case is interesting.  It refers to the “murder of an avatar”…more on that in a moment.  First an overview.  Police in Japan arrested a woman after she accessed without authorization the computer of her husband and deleted his profile from the popular game Maple Story.  The woman said she did so in retaliation [...]

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QQ: China’s New Virtual Coin of the Realm?

Do Virtual World Economies Threaten “Real Economies?” What is most interesting about the story below is that it demonstrates how the extent to which virtual world economies and currencies have grown.  The fact that the Chinese government moved to protect the RMB/Yuan from QQ Coins say much about the state of affairs and how seriously [...]

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Is virtual world crime "real crime?"

From simulated sex with child avatars, to financial fraud, money laundering and terrorist recruiting, virtual worlds are opening new opportunities for technologically savvy criminals.

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