Castronova's Notes on Hacker Court

scubacuda writes "Cal State Fullerton's Edward Castronova (who recently wrote an excellent analysis of gender inequality between male and female Everquest avatars) has just updated his notes on 'Hacker Court', a mock trial held at Vegas' Black Hat Conference on whether virtual items destroyed during the hack of an online video game constituted real loss. 'No verdict was reached, but the jury and audience agreed that the damages were real,' says Castronova."

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Re:Div's Happy Hour

[RLiegh]

What you described points to a good reason why I am turned off of online games particularly MUD -if I want to learn a scripting language -I'll do so for real; not in the context of some crappy [imho] text-based star trek MUD.

gee..

[geekoid]

you went to a place where most of the people play games. And they felt it was a real loss if someone hacked there game. imagine my surprise.

Next up, we got o the golf range to see if golfers feel its a loss if a passing car honks its horn while they try to take a shot.

"excellent analysis of gender inequality between male and female Everquest avatars)"

you keep using that word...I don't think it means what you think it means.