Japanese Man Arrested For Virtual Theft

Kethinov writes "The Daily Yomiuri is reporting that a 21-year-old man was arrested for "illegally accessing an Internet game server to sell a virtual 'house' owned by a woman to another game participant for 50,000 yen, police said Thursday. According to the MPD, Ryusei Sakano of Itabashi Ward, Tokyo, posed as a female game player he met online while playing 'Ultima Online,' a popular Internet-based game. Sakano reportedly asked the game's system administrator to provide the female player's entry password on the pretext that she had lost her password to the game.""

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Re:for the inevitable slashdotting..

[Hellkitten]

You know, of course, that the web was invented in Switzerland

Yes and it's completely irrellevant. the Internet sprang out from ARPANET. Read a little history. As you say http was developed at CERN an international laboratory located in switzerland. Does that mean that the swiss has the best web infrastructure in the world and the highest usage among it's population? And that the US r0olz when it comes to serving every other protocol? And how does that affect the french? The fact that someone (not a swiss afaik was in switzerland at the time he invented something vaguely like what we know as the web doesn't prove anything

And still no matter who invented the Internet doesn't matter in this context. Someone (possibly you, but you never know with ACs) made the claim that since the newspaper was japanese it was likely to get slashdotted. And the argument was that french newspaper wouldn't stand up to slashdotting. I made the point that france and japan are very different countries (culturally at least) and that what is (perhaps) true for france has nothing to do with japan.

Look at some statistics
There are 61.4 M japanese speaking internet users, compared to 230.6 M english speaking and 22.0 M french speakin
I think we can expect that one of Japan's biggest newspapers should withstand a little slashdotting if it can cope with any significant market share of 61.4 M potential visitors

Don't even know why I care to answer your stupid troll post.

Thank you and the same to you, if you have problems with me (or anyone) making a point about a stupid post you shouldn't be reading slashdot