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."

Comments

OK....so?

[Scalli0n]

A mock jury decided a mock decision.

How about we mock the geeks that are still crying over this?

This is an easy one

[Anonymous Coward]

Just award them some virtual money.

Does this mean virtual deaths are real too?

[happyhippy]

So Im looking at a couple of thousand life sentences for playing Counterstrike?

Div's Happy Hour

[akedia]

I just want to take a moment to talk to all the retards.

So, you spend your real money in order to get pretend money in your online games.

Then, for the privilege of spending that pretend money - in a pretend world, on pretend things - you pay more real money, every month.

What a bunch of fucking brain surgeons.

(Credit goes to Penny Arcade. Seems apropros here. Seriously guys, get a life. It's disturbing.)

Both sides' virginity was upheld

[Sagarian]

unanimously

by an undoubtely [poorly] HUNG jury.

It's all the same.

[Mr. Self estruct]

You guys.. it doesn't matter... even the FEMALE characters in EverQuest are guys....