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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.""
Seems much more like fraud to me... I hope the charge sticks, even if it is a little off.
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As the online games has eveolved I knew it was just a matter of time before someone would fall to the temptation and earn some money off someone elses work. And of course it is a crime, just as breaking in to someone elses house and grab a valuable item.