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Interesting article, but I think some of the claims need to be substantiated:
"Some countries have introduced laws and special police investigation units to cover such crimes, classing some of them as no different to their real-life counterparts". This looks wrong, particularly the last bit. I accept distinctions can get blurred, but crimes that are purely virtual are qualitatively different from real world crimes and I'm quite sure the Korean justice system continues to reflect this. If real money is being extorted online then that's a crime, if coinage that has no value outside the game is being extorted then it's not (though a different "real world" offence may sometimes apply such as harassment or threatening behaviour)
Similarly "known cases" conflates crime that is virtual (the Korean example) with virtual world events that led to crime in the real world (the China example)-- Cjnm 10:42, 10 Jun 2005 (UTC)
Actually, this article, as it stands, is mainly unsubstantiated rubbish.
I'm just going to throw this out there, to see if anybody objects, but a lot of this article is just copy and paste from Virtual economy. It seems like this could probably be merged with that, although to me, that ought to be dependant upon the veracity of the article, which strikes me as a little fantastic. Junjk 15:43, 10 Jun 2005 (UTC)
I can't imagine why an article on virtual crime does not have an entry on virtual prostitution? -- YoungFreud 16:51, 10 Jun 2005 (UTC)
This distinction is not made in the article. ...after stabbing and killing fellow The Legend of Mir 3 gamer Zhu Caoyuan... is a case that happened out of the game, and so shouldn't be called "Virtual crime", though it was related to the game. Do these police task forces investigate "crime" inside games (ie. a player tricks another into giving them an item, then doesn't pay), or outside games (ie. through eBay)? Confused is I. -- Consumed Crustacean | Talk | 18:46, Jun 11, 2005 (UTC)
I mentioned this under the virtual prostitution section as "Chinese Adena Farming", but I've got a source on some of this behavior from this article on 1up.com. One of the leading profiteers is a programmer with the alias Smooth Criminal, who apparently caused the big credit dupe in SWG that lead to getting large number of players banned. Another one was Lee Caldwell, whose company, BlackSnow, employed workers in a Tijuana sweatshop to "farm" gold. -- YoungFreud 6 July 2005 23:38 (UTC)
See ( http://www.betanews.com/article/Online_gamer_arrested_for_virtual_murder_in_Japan/1224888499) StevePrutz ( talk) 14:18, 25 October 2008 (UTC)
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Interesting article, but I think some of the claims need to be substantiated:
"Some countries have introduced laws and special police investigation units to cover such crimes, classing some of them as no different to their real-life counterparts". This looks wrong, particularly the last bit. I accept distinctions can get blurred, but crimes that are purely virtual are qualitatively different from real world crimes and I'm quite sure the Korean justice system continues to reflect this. If real money is being extorted online then that's a crime, if coinage that has no value outside the game is being extorted then it's not (though a different "real world" offence may sometimes apply such as harassment or threatening behaviour)
Similarly "known cases" conflates crime that is virtual (the Korean example) with virtual world events that led to crime in the real world (the China example)-- Cjnm 10:42, 10 Jun 2005 (UTC)
Actually, this article, as it stands, is mainly unsubstantiated rubbish.
I'm just going to throw this out there, to see if anybody objects, but a lot of this article is just copy and paste from Virtual economy. It seems like this could probably be merged with that, although to me, that ought to be dependant upon the veracity of the article, which strikes me as a little fantastic. Junjk 15:43, 10 Jun 2005 (UTC)
I can't imagine why an article on virtual crime does not have an entry on virtual prostitution? -- YoungFreud 16:51, 10 Jun 2005 (UTC)
This distinction is not made in the article. ...after stabbing and killing fellow The Legend of Mir 3 gamer Zhu Caoyuan... is a case that happened out of the game, and so shouldn't be called "Virtual crime", though it was related to the game. Do these police task forces investigate "crime" inside games (ie. a player tricks another into giving them an item, then doesn't pay), or outside games (ie. through eBay)? Confused is I. -- Consumed Crustacean | Talk | 18:46, Jun 11, 2005 (UTC)
I mentioned this under the virtual prostitution section as "Chinese Adena Farming", but I've got a source on some of this behavior from this article on 1up.com. One of the leading profiteers is a programmer with the alias Smooth Criminal, who apparently caused the big credit dupe in SWG that lead to getting large number of players banned. Another one was Lee Caldwell, whose company, BlackSnow, employed workers in a Tijuana sweatshop to "farm" gold. -- YoungFreud 6 July 2005 23:38 (UTC)
See ( http://www.betanews.com/article/Online_gamer_arrested_for_virtual_murder_in_Japan/1224888499) StevePrutz ( talk) 14:18, 25 October 2008 (UTC)
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Hi, I know no one may respond to this, but I'm new to editing Wikipedia. How do I add assign this page to WikiProject Video Games? QuantumFoam66 ( talk) 03:32, 7 May 2024 (UTC)